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... p . 248) The Hamilton and Mountbatten anecdotes are in the only chapter devoted to his contacts with the secret servants. He calls it 'The Greatest Con Trick of the Century'. Knightley thinks spies have been a waste of time and money in time of peace. He lists many in stances of farce and chaos. He quotes imprisoned CIA officer Aldrich Ames' opinion that it was all 'a self-serving sham carried out by careerist bureaucrats who managed to deceive policy-makers and the public about the necessity and value of their work. ' Knightley reports attending an historical conference on intelligence in Germany in 1994. 'I challenged a panel that included Sergei Kondrashov; his colleague ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 114 - 01 Dec 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue34/lob34-08.htm
... to contracting leukaemia, and a couple of other employees, it suddenly dawned on us to have a real careful look at what was happening there. ' A huge project got underway. Overall it became known as Project PANDORA, and it included a number of parallel projects, such as Projects TUMS, MUTS, and BAZAR, involving the CIA, Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA), the State Department, the Navy and the Army. They were tasked to study the effects of the emitted Soviet microwaves on animals and humans. The electromagnetic signals, which were subsequently named the 'Moscow Signals', each day targeted the U.S . Embassy in Moscow. These signals ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 44 - 01 Dec 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue34/lob34-01.htm
... which few in the new SIS 'Global Issues Controllerate' (sic) will take seriously or believe is a rational policy - really going to substitute, intellectually, morally and emotionally, for the anti-Soviet crusade which has provided SIS with its raison d'etre in the post-war years? It seems unlikely. It certainly hasn't for the CIA. Somebody said recently that the CIA is a crusade or it is nothing. Former CIA Director William Colby wasn't being ironic when he called his memoir Honorable Men. That's how that generation saw themselves - good men fighting a dirty but necessary war. It was concepts which kept the CIA relatively honest, by its own lights, for ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 44 - 01 Dec 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue34/lob34-04.htm
... onto folks' jobs and the provocations and the infiltrations and the assassinations and the chemical-biological warfare testing and the human experimentation and all the rest of the government's crimes against us continue, in full force, and are on the increase. Moreover, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration [LEAA], under the guidance of 'ex'-CIA agents, is funding thousands of projects to experiment and establish a police-state apparatus with all those techniques the CIA has perfected against other countries. Virtually all the national police agencies are involved in this contingency plan, not the least of all the nearly invisible Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Bureau of the Treasury Department [BATF] which set ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 38 - 01 Dec 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue34/lob34-06.htm
... gave his address as well as a photograph of him. The Hackney Anti-Paedophile League does not appear to exist. By a curious coincidence, Mark Taha, who is not a child molester as far as I know, is a colleague of Alexander Baron and one of two people with outstanding libel actions against Searchlight magazine. Ex-CIA? Very New Labour The Independent on Sunday (8 June) hinted that DeAnne Julius, one of Gordon Brown's appointments to the Bank of England committee advising on interest rates, was a former CIA analyst, the Sunday Time (6 July) stated it as fact, but it was Nick Cohen in the Observer (19 October) ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 37 - 01 Dec 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue34/lob34-05.htm
... , the banker asked him if it was true that Britain was being run by the communists. The loan did not materialise.(61) The 1975 referendum on the EEC The U.S . took the 1975 referendum on British membership of the EEC seriously enough to send Cord Meyer over to London, for the period, as temporary CIA Station Chief. Meyer was one of the CIA's most important clandestine operators who had been involved in the manipulation of the youth, student and labour fields in the 1950s and 60s. This information, with some documents to back it up, was given to the Conservative MP Richard Body by two CIA officers in London during the referendum campaign ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 33 - 01 Dec 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue34/lob34-07.htm
... We get letters from Kruschev to Castro; we get the text of 1961 talks between John J. McCloy and Valerian Zorin, of the USSR. In other words, Schotz has got a thesis: he thinks it's is obvious who killed Kennedy and why. It was about the Cold War and Cuba; and he was killed by the CIA. (Though just in case he's wrong about that he states on p. 2 that 'the term "CIA" as used here signifies the entire web of U.S . military intelligence agencies. '! He then proceeds to use the term in both senses......) There is one useful section, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 01 Dec 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue34/lob34-15.htm
278. Sources [Lobster #34 (Winter 1998)]
... the Fall 97 issue, including an account of what looks like continuing U.S . covert ops (chemical warfare) against Cuba; an account of working with Coalition Missing, the group trying to bring to light the truth about Guatemalan death squads; a brief memoir from Ralph McGehee of CIABase on his time as an analyst in the CIA; and a transcript of testimony given to a Congressional seminar by Alfred McKoy, author of The Politics of Heroin, 'C.I .A . Covert Actions and Drug Trafficking'. $20 a year in the U.S ., $30 overseas; 1909 M.L . King Jnr Parkway, Des Moines, Iowa ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 19 - 01 Dec 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue34/lob34-16.htm
... .html 'This metapage is the most comprehensive guide to intelligence-related resources on the web. ' An accurate description - a few examples will suffice: Metapages includes Crimenet connection; netsurfer focus on cryptography and privacy (lots of links); virtual world of spies and intelligence. Links to resource directories: human intelligence and covert ops - CIA; signals intelligence and comms. security - NSA: economic intelligence; information warfare. Material on Gulf War, counter-terrorism page, OLIN (on-line intelligence project). History: origins of intelligence services; Secret History of the U.S . 1962-1996 (history of U.S . intervention in Central ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 16 - 01 Dec 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue34/lob34-17.htm
... an overnight millionaire between 1967 and 1968 (chapter 2); Stark was involved in 'a scam to hijack control of the [Ghanaian] state pharmaceutical company' in 1967, which left him with 'almost a controlling interest' (chapters 10 and 5) - this was presumably part of the carve-up of state assets which followed the CIA-sponsored 1966 coup against Nkrumah. In 1969 Stark was spoken of as 'a man with a million-dollar inheritance' and could call on contacts in 'Parisian radical circles' (chapter 9); on his own account he had spent the early sixties working on 'top secret projects' at the US Department of Defense (chapter 2 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 120 - 01 Jun 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue35/lob35-12.htm
