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... 1963-79 (1980). A spook joke (and a good one, at that)Many prisoners do not fare too well in the hands of Shin Bet, an [Israeli] agency with a reputation for physically abusing suspects, especially Arabs, to obtain confessions. A joke that made the rounds told of a competition between agents from the CIA, the Soviet KGB and the Shin Bet to see who could most quickly a deer in the wild. The CIA agent entered the forest and returned three days later with a deer on a leash. The KGB agent came back after two days carrying bloody pieces of a dismembered deer. The Shin Bet agent was in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 46 - 01 Jun 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue25/lob25-18.htm
... view about the ANC, Pan-Africanist Congress (RAC), the Anti-Apartheid Movement, the Blacks, the Coloureds, the Reds, and yes, those pinko langoustine liberals too. This didn't go down very well at all. Anyway, BOSS came up with a great gimmick. They put the rumour our to their secret agents (dozens of them being journalists in South Africa and elsewhere) that not to worry, Gordon is still a loyal BOSS agent. Ignore his book, its just a cunning cover for something else he's doing. Now you have to give credit where credit is due. BOSS deserves a pat on the back for that brilliant disinformer. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 46 - 01 Oct 1989 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue18/lob18-05.htm
... . In other respects the book can be criticized. As a journalist trained to write compact stories, he is stronger on street and court detail than on the bureaucratic complexities of Washington. Subtle arguments can become telescoped into punchy summaries that are sometimes oversimplified. Webb is most controversial when implicating the CIA, relying heavily on slippery phrases like 'CIA agent'. To him it is important that in December 1981 a 'CIA agent', Contra commander Enrique Bermudez, 'had given the goddamned order' to Meneses and Blandon to begin trafficking in support of the Contras. In the larger context of such a powerful book, this seems likely to generate needless quibbles, and remains a side issue ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 46 - 01 Dec 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue36/lob36-11.htm
... The DGSE, it is true, has not had a lot of success in keeping its activities secret. In March 1987 lawyer Jean-Paul Mazurier, who represented 'public enemy No I', Georges Abdallah, and who served as a communications channel between the imprisoned FARL leader and his lieutenants, revealed that he had been a salaried DGSE agent since 1984 and had been regularly informing the DGSE of FARL's exchanges. As if this were not all, Mazurier revealed that in the secret service war between the DGSE and the internal security agency, Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST), the DGSE was systematically depriving the DST of information gained (on home ground) from ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 46 - 01 Jun 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue16/lob16-10.htm
... in 1962 in the East-West Traders who went to the Leipzig Trade Fair. Questions were asked in the House of Commons and much was made of their close relationship to the, then, unrecognised East German government. Spectator February 14 1976 NOTEBOOK While left-wing journals - doubtless innocently - have been helping assassination squads to identify CIA agents throughout the world, attention has been diverted from what the other side are up to over here. In fact, just four years and five months after the Conservative Government expelled 105 Soviet KGB and GRU (military intelligence) officers from Britain, the Russian spy network is back at full strength. There are nearly 200 Soviet-controlled ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 46 - 01 Nov 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue17/lob17-01.htm
... regulator" poses threat to City of London. ' At last, a reason to support the EU! Disinfo: an oldie but a goody In Richard Belfield's Terminate with Extreme Prejudice (London: Robinson, 2005) there are two pages about the late Lord Mountbatten, recycling the claims of some on the right that he was a Soviet agent (without any evidence) and there is this: 'Many within British intelligence circles knew him as a visitor to Kincora, a boy's home used by the paedophile and gay members of the Protestant Order [sic], civil servants and intelligence officers. ' Well, there's no evidence offered for this either; and the stories about Mountbatten ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 46 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-26.htm
... first mention on page 174. Turning his back on his excellent earlier work on this case -- I am indebted to him for much of the story so far -- Leppard decided to embrace the new Langley line. His book and subsequent activity by CIA personnel in Malta, Cyprus and Germany have sought to establish the guilt of Libyan agents and to unpick the case against Talb. After lengthy sessions with CIA personnel, the Maltese shopkeeper who had previously recognised a photograph of Talb -- a 35 year-old Palestinian -- apparently changed his mind and fingered a Libyan airline official in his fifties. This identification, along with allegations -- later disproved -- that ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 46 - 01 Jun 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue27/lob27-04.htm
... 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
... 2 (emphasis added) Cavendish had been an MI6 officer. He worked with George K. Young in the UNISON Committee for Action, a militia formed as one of the 'private armies' of the mid-1970s. These were largely psychological operations to bolster the public perception of a climate of disorganization and impending 1 Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War, 1941-91, (London: Harper Collins, 1993) p. 147. 2 Brian Crozier, 'Crozier Disclosures, ' The Times , 8 July 1993. chaos along the lines indicated by Robert Moss and Haseler's mid-1970s work on the collapse of democracy and the threat of an extremist-dominated ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 45 - 19 Mar 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster67/lob67-atlantic-semantic.pdf
... Department of State that ex-CIA Director and coup-master, Vernon Walters, met with Colonel Rabuka in Suva two weeks before the coup. (Fiji Sun 6 July 1987). The conversation was supposedly concerned with Fiji Army forces on UN peace-keeping operations in Lebanon. There have been many independent reports of CIA officers/agents in Suva at the time of the coup. David Robie (New Zealand Outlook July 1987, p43) adds another. He cites CBS news as having identified 11 CIA agents as being present in Fiji at the time of the coup. Evidence for the US embassy in Suva having advance knowledge of the coup is that riot shutters went ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 44 - 01 Feb 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue15/lob15-06.htm