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... . The author shows that this was, indeed, a very big spy ring. (The CIA were still investigating its activities well into the 1970s, believing that portions of it had survived various Gestapo crack-downs and had gone on to become embedded in the new pro-NATO West German state.) Kilzer reasons that because the intelligence provided by the Orchestra to the Soviets was so good, so detailed and so close to the commands issuing from Hitler's HQ, the source of this must have been Bormann, playing the role of a diabolical secret agent. Well maybe. Equally a small number of other German suspects could have been the source of this. Equally, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 49 - 01 Jun 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue41/lob41-43.htm
... was achieved for the class in this second trial is remarkable, almost a hundred percent. ') Arcadi Gaydamak A further investigation of Edsaco at that time would have been likely to reveal the activities of one of its partners, Arcadi Gaydamak, a central figure in 'Angolagate', the arms-running scandal which rocked the French political and intelligence establishments in the late nineties and beyond. In the following, the substance and facts are taken from, 'Making a Killing' a long article written by Yossi Melman and Julio Godoy and published by The Centre for Public Integrity through the ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists). The complete text is available on their website. ( ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 49 - 01 Dec 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue50/lob50-45.htm
... including any designated word or words. The data should only be released to people 'legitimately concerned' with the main enquiry, 'or to officers who have good reason to believe that information relevant to another enquiry is held by the system' - a licence to go fishing. (Guardian 10 October) This, when installed will be a national intelligence-gathering computer system, and, like other police systems, will be exempt from the Data Protection Bill. Home Office to control the purchase and use of police computers more closely, expand PNC, and encourage police forces to buy only mini and micro computers. Computing 29 November). (c ) and 'community' policing Greater ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 49 - 01 Feb 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue07/lob07-05.htm
... unknown organisation" claiming the credit (sic) for a bomb blast in a US air force base in Greece which injured 78 people. The organisation, calling itself the National Front, said the attack was because the Americans "were responsible for the continued situation in Cyprus." "Previously unknown organisation" is usually a euphemism for 'an intelligence operation'. Daily Telegraph (16 February 1985). US preparing contingency plans to remove its bases from Greece in 1988 when present leasing arrangements expire. Oh sure. Anybody remember when the US last quietly packed its bags and left? Daily Telegraph (24 February 1985) A piece headlined "Athens - new terrorist capital of West ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 49 - 01 Jun 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue08/lob08-04.htm
... Chomsky, Herman, Knightley and Fisk. But the Fisk interview I hadn't seen (he says he was getting a thousand letters a day during the war!), anything by Chomsky and Herman is worth having and the Pilger pieces, written in the weeks preceding the invasion, stand up pretty well. There are interesting snippets on the intelligence services and disinformation, psy-ops, US propaganda and media behaviour. The material which has survived best is the essays on the workings of the media and state propaganda; and of those the most interesting pieces to me are by the journalists: Tim Llewellyn, former BBC reporter, on how the corporation persuades itself that it isn't ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 49 - 01 Jun 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue47/lob47-45c.htm
... which they had been recording since 1939. Based on so-called one time pads (and these are explained at length in one of the chapters in Haynes and Klehr), the Soviets thought their codes unbreakable and chatted way in great detail about their agents. But by 1950 enough of the Soviet material had been decoded for the US intelligence community to begin piecing together the Soviet networks in the US. These intercepts - code named Venona - many of which remain unbroken to this day, reveal that the Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, Larry Duggan, Lauchlin Currie, and all the other less important causes celebres of the fifties, were guilty as charged. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 49 - 01 Dec 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue38/lob38-20.htm
... – terror – sponsored – by – the – KGB thesis) and by Israeli propagandists looking for sticks with which to beat the Palestinians. And since then this 'threat' has worked a treat, ramifying and multiplying into an new, vast, hydra-headed, near-invisible, global threat, justifying vast new expenditure and military and intelligence expansion all over the world. But threat generation isn't enough in itself; the threat also has to be legitimised; and, despite the DIA and Air Force and Naval intelligence, at the apex of the legit-imising process remains the CIA. The CIA's intelligence estimation process is therefore the key area of contest for the military- ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 49 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-44b.htm
... of the aims of this column is to open up new lines of enquiry for parapolitical specialists. It might seem very odd to start with the name of Reinhard Gehlen, long-since dead founder of the BND, the German Security Service. Reinhard Gehlen, to over-simplify a very complex tale, bought his way into the Western intelligence fraternity by handing over extensive files on anti-Soviet intelligence networks behind enemy lines in 1945/6 . ( [1 ] ) What brought Gehlen to mind was a mischievous little article in a recent edition of the French newsletter Intelligence Online ( [2 ] ) reminding us that the new Pope Benedict XVI was formerly of the Diocese ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 48 - 01 Jun 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue49/lob49-03.htm
... liberal orthodoxy entrenched in existing literature about the role of secrecy in the British legal-rational state. ' This approach produces sections like this on pp. 8-9 : 'The interplay between policy-making, political power and its expression in the different institutional frameworks of the British state -- the Cabinet, Whitehall, the security and intelligence services and so on -- gives rise to national security policies that exhibit identifiable characteristics based on social class and political beliefs .. .. .British policy-makers have entrenched a class-divided and politically biased mode of rule which produces policies that fail both to represent the British polity as a whole and to provide a genuine ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 48 - 01 Dec 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue34/lob34-10.htm
... some $2 ,000,000 compared with $322,000 in 1920. They had expanded on the back of the US post-war boom, initiating in the process a new degree of involvement in a firm's total business practice as opposed to just finance and accounting. This involved the collection and classification of both general and detailed intelligence on many hitherto peripheral matters. These included labour relations, availability of raw materials, plants, products, markets and the effectiveness of the organisation and its future prospects. They had also begun to work closely with the investment banks. After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the firm helped to clean up the US financial markets, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 48 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-21.htm