Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] is almost nothing about the CIA in the book. So it’s being marketed under false pretences. The book’s original German title translates as Bought Journalists: How Politicians, Intelligence Agencies and High Finance Control Germany’s Mass Media. The author – who died of a heart attack in 2017 – has a Wikipedia entry in English.2 […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] operation into motion. Each time, however, it seemed as if the usual unofficial sanction was not entirely forthcoming. From impounded arms shipments to stern warnings from the Intelligence community, the plot seemed doomed. Indeed, 2 See Christopher Kinsey, Corporate Soldiers and International Security: The Rise of Private Military Companies, (London: Routledge, 2006) pp. 46-49. […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] far as Meadows was concerned, the US military leadership was ‘clearly swinging toward the radical left’ and were clearly ‘woke’ in their sympathies. (p. 61) And the intelligence agencies were not much better. There are a number of things to be said about this. First of all, how astonishing it is to have a […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] Council staff, and the way he pushed for the administration to recognise the Iranian threat. Woodward sings the man’s praises. Harvey is a ‘driven legend’ who ‘approached intelligence like a homicide detective – sifting through thousands of pages of interrogation reports, communications intercepts, battle reports, enemy documents, raw intelligence data and nontraditional sources such […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[PDF file]: […] that hundreds of Belorussian (or Byelorussian) collaborators with the occupying Nazi forces during WW2, many of whom were guilty of war crimes, were recruited by the US intelligence services of the period and/or were allowed into the United States following the end of WW2. This is the secret. This edition has a new introduction […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] whom she was doing a heroin run);1 right-wing activist, Joseph Milteer, who was bugged talking about it by the Miami police;2 John Martino, a mid-level gangster;3 and intelligence officer Richard Case Nagell.4 So, we have organised crime, the far right and a spook – the usual suspects; but rather low level.5 Would a CIA […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] with spying on their own government at the request of the US and privately told Wilson – hence his actions and concern at the possibility of the intelligence services machinating to remove him from office. Basically, Harold was right, and (presumably with Heath) he remains the only UK prime minister spied on by his […]