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... Sir John subliminally showcased British society 'we want to enjoy public confidence' which was an essential component of his pitch. Unable to turn some of SIS's biggest liabilities into positive attributes not least because 'liability' and 'attribute' mean different things to different audiences Sir John mixed his messages. For example, he rightly praised heroic agents who, for their own honourable motives, work with SIS an attribute to most British audiences; but a liability if a philosophical discussion of the morality of espionage is being held, or you are the current President of Iran.1 7 Unsurprisingly, there was some ludicrous top spin: Sir John tried to give the public the impression they ...
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... clearing banks, the major high street banks, were unhappy. Not only did they have to watch the growth of pension funds, unit trusts and building societies as rivals for domestic saving, the arrival of increasing numbers of foreign banks, and the rise of the so-called secondary or fringe banks, they were also'... unpaid agents of the state, bearing a great part of the considerable administrative burden of implementing exchange controls, in the post-war years their lending activities were almost constantly restricted by government, and they were the main agents through which the authorities tried to enforce periodic credit squeezes. 3 1 29 King, Dairy,(see note 25) 2 July 1974 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-062.pdf
... sending him arms through Czechoslovakia, on a Swedish registered ship, the Alfhem.5 0 The Agency and State Department knew about the shipment, with Wisner agreeing in early April 1954 to let the shipment go ahead for a while until 'exposure would be most compromising to the Guatemalans. 5 1 It arrived in Puerto Barrios on 15 May 1954, with CIA agents waiting. As Nick Cullather states: 'the arms purchase handed PBSUCCESS a propaganda bonanza. 5 2 Dulles on 17 May exaggerated the size of the cargo and said it would triple the size of the army, while SHERWOOD, trying to cause a split between Arbenz and the army, reported the weapons were intended for workers' militias, which ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-015.pdf
... Contents The World That Never Was. A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents Alex Butterworth London: The Bodley Head, 2010. Hbk. xii, 482 pp. Illus, notes, bibliography, index. RRP £25.00 ISBN 978-0-224-07807-8 Richard Alexander A s the subtitle suggests, this is a book with many stories, plots and subplots, all interwoven into a highly readable and entertaining (and occasionally thoughtful) text. It covers the period from the Paris Commune to the First World War and geographically stretches from Moscow to Chicago. Butterworth has clearly done a lot of legwork researching in various archives, as well as reading a wide range of texts ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 48 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-202.pdf
... that the anonymous 'Bill Smith' who delivered it said it had been 'developed' there, which would mean it was Zapruder's original film. Or, it occurred to me, perhaps some other original film created and altered while the 'other' Zapruder footage was being moved around Dallas. Or, it also occurred to me, that a CIA agent posing as a Secret Service agent acting as a delivery boy might not have known or cared about the difference between 'developed' and 'printed'. After examining all these conundrums, however, suffice it to say that regardless of how and by whom the Zapruder film may or may not have been altered, what was left was still compelling ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 46 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-166.pdf
... African- Americans and other racial or ethnic minorities whereby there was no doubt that African-Americans were considered the primary target. Thus despite any and all attempts to treat addiction as a medical problem, Anslinger, the FBN and the DEA have fought successfully to criminalise addictions along race lines. Second, enforcement strategy was 'supply-driven'. That meant agents were trained and deployed to make cases create situations for arrest, trial and conviction against suppliers and dealers. The main tactic for making cases was to pose as an intermediary and induce deals. Of course this meant that agents had to create credibility by actively 157 Summer 2010 participating in the market they were hired to suppress. ...
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... was thoroughly embraced and expanded in Korea with as many as 4 million dead in 'scorched-earth' policies. In Vietnam, '8 million tons of bombs' in wholesale 'carpet bombing' were dropped. Millions dead and often permanent environmental damage was done to health and livelihoods as '19 million gallons of toxic herbicides', and indiscriminate use of napalm and Agent Orange were unleashed on Vietnam. The infamous Phoenix Program of assassination and terror with an estimated 70,000 Vietnamese deaths replete with sadistic torture chambers. Whole populations designated as 'reds' in 'search and destroy' and 'kill 'em all' missions 'body counts' a ghoulish index of battle success. 'Counter- insurgency' and guerilla warfare ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-136.pdf
... 1930-2009) who had a Guardian obit on 13 June 2009 and who was a major figure in UK advertising in the 1960s, '70s and '80s. 45 Summer 2010 1960s and '70s. The managing director of Britain Radio in 1966-1967 was Ted Allbeury. Allbeury had been an intelligence officer during the early part of the Cold War, running agents into East Germany. He would later pursue a career as a thriller writer and admitted that he was given 'top secret information' by the CIA in the 1970s and '80s to place in, and spice up, his espionage novels.1 4 Mention should also be made of Philip Birch, the UK Head of Radio London. Birch, who ...
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... and they had first met in Marseilles. It was Lafitte who engaged him for the job.3 Now let's turn to Lafitte. In 1952 nine large framed paintings including The Flaying of St. Bartholomew, believed to be by Mattis Preti, a famous Neapolitan artist, were stolen from St Joseph's Cathedral in Bardstown, Kentucky. In April 1953 FBI agents arrested three people in Chicago in connection with the theft: Norton I Kretske, an attorney, Joseph DePietro, a deputy bailiff for a Chicago court, and an individual identified as Gus Manoletti. The case went to trial in October and the government's second prosecution witness answered to the name of Jean-Pierre Lafitte but as he approached the stand ...
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... Contents Lobster 58 When the Lights Went Out Britain in the Seventies Andy Beckett London: Faber and Faber, 2009, £20.00 7 See Brian Crozier, Free Agent (London: HarperCollins,1993) pp. 131-133. 8 Andrew writes on p. 638 that MI5 was 'becoming increasingly worried about...Unison. Page 142 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Strange Days Indeed Francis Wheen London: Fourth Estate, 2009, £18.99 Decadeitis, the division of history into decades for media marketing purposes 'roaring twenties', 'swinging sixties' irritates serious historians; but in the case of the 1970s it does make a a kind of sense, the decade being bookended ...
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