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... be copied. * In the opening paragraph the author – purportedly a CIA officer of some stripe, writing for other CIA officers – refers to the 'Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) '. Would s/he need to put MI6 in brackets for a CIA audience? * Brian Crozier is described as a 'UK Security Service (MI5) agent'. Not according to Crozier's memoir, Free Agent, he wasn't; and Crozier wasn't shy about boasting of his connections to the intelligence world. On the Web4 is a 2012 account of these pages, in an English-language Turkish paper, which says the document was then in the hands of 'an experienced intelligence expert [presumably ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 67 - 18 Jun 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster65/lob65-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... other western intelligence agencies grew smaller and more hard core. 1 Espionage has always been selective and never a numbers game – the Brits were only interested in a small minority. Mass espionage, which is what the Iraqis were playing at, is designed to create fear. Protection Security became the norm. My Baghdad-born father was an agent with the SIS and my family was lucky in that when I was a schoolgirl and we were under actual Iraqi threat in London, we had the support of a beloved SIS case officer who moved in with us until full protection could be put in place. By the time he left, we had armed Special Branch officers inside our ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 10 Apr 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster65/lob65-sis-espionage.pdf
... Labour Party affairs. '4 1 It may even be more complex than this for there is evidence that the Labour Attaché posts have been used as cover by the CIA. Jonathan Kwitney of the Wall Street Journal tracked down one Paul Sakwa, who told him that he had been the case officer for Irving Brown, the most important CIA agent in the labour movement in Europe, handling Brown's budget of between $150,000 and $300,000 a year, between 1952 and 1954. From being Brown's case officer in Washington, Sakwa went on to a post under cover as the Assistant Labour Attaché at the 40 See Gaitskell Diary ed. Philip Williams, pp. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 41 - 05 Feb 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/clandestine-caucus.pdf
... 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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 48 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-120.pdf
... , 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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-062.pdf
... 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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 15 Dec 2012 - 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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 48 - 15 Dec 2012 - 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 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-166.pdf
... 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. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 29 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-153.pdf
... 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 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-136.pdf
