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... the vanguard of invention - to arms. The end of the American aerospace boom has also coincided with the huge expansion of arms sales abroad, prompted by the withdrawal of American and British forces, the flow of oil money into the Middle East and the recession...it is not surprising that so many of the companies are former intelligence agents. Their trade is always a kind of espionage and subterranean warfare, calling for subterfuge, high-level contacts and Swiss bank accounts. (149) After the first U.S . foreign trade deficit of the century, in 1971, U.S . arms sales abroad which had averaged $2 billion a year through ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 37 - 01 Sep 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue12/lob12-24.htm
... a brief written for him which makes him look like an idiot. (And, of course, their budgets are increased. ) Everything you need to know about out politicians' relationship with the security services is expressed by the fact that they the politicians refused to even listen to what Machon and Shayler had to say. As did the Intelligence and Security Committee. Oversight? Overlook, more like it. As always happens, the system then tries to shoot the messenger bearing the bad news. When it comes to this, the system springs into life and proves to be very competent indeed. The second half of the book is chiefly an account of the persecution and conviction ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 36 - 01 Jun 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue49/lob49-45b.htm
... 1973 coup in Chile, probably using the same manual). To accuse the British state of 'terrorism' in British Guiana surely requires some kind of documentation. In the last sentence Pilger refers to the SAS fighting in Vietnam 'with US special forces'. Again, I checked in Curtis and he cites one sentence from Bloch and Fitzgerald's British Intelligence and Covert Action. which describes SAS personnel being attached to New Zealand and Australian SAS units. Well, I have no reason to doubt them; and no reason to doubt that the SAS dipped their toes in Vietnam. But the way Pilger states it suggests (a ) that the British government knew the SAS were in Vietnam, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 36 - 01 Jun 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue35/lob35-17.htm
... the 'Team B' fraud was ex CIA Arthur Cox, who exploded the 'Team B' exercise in the New York Review of Books, 6th November 1980. The bureaucratic struggle within the US government over the estimates of Soviet military capability tends to get overlooked in favour of the more exciting aspects of US foreign policy and the work of US intelligence agencies. This is a pity, because those estimates form the basis for the official US government definition of 'reality'. A low estimate of Soviet spending/capabilities makes it difficult to persuade Congress to fund the military's programs. There is a very interesting and much neglected study of this process by Lawrence Freedman (now Professor Freedman) ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 36 - 01 Apr 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue04/lob04-05.htm
... 'war on drugs'. This book is partly the story of people, working for Uncle Sam, who ended up ruined, dead, or in jail, because they became an embarrassment to 'national security' while trying to prosecute the 'war on drugs'. It also contains the best account I have read of how the actions of the intelligence agencies in the United States, chiefly the CIA, produce unanticipated consequences. I will try to summarise this. A group of Cuban Bay of Pigs veterans created a money-laundering operation called Sea Crest. When the the US decided to covertly fund the Afghanis against the Soviet Union, the CIA used this Cuban money laundry to finance ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 36 - 01 Dec 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue38/lob38-19.htm
... instance the 'transcripts' of some of the conversations with Crowley,5 and then the solution to the Dallas mystery. A witness to the relationship between Douglas and the CIA officers exists. A retired FBI agent, Tom Kimmel, who knew Crowley was talking to Douglas, commented that he could not understand why the 'very introspective, very accomplished intelligence officer' Crowley 'embraced Stahl [Douglas] so unequivocally'. (p . 353) It might just have been that Douglas was skilled at flattering an old intelligence officer who had developed a bad case of flapping jaw in his dotage. But it might have been that Crowley saw Douglas as the vehicle for 4 I wrote about Douglas ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 36 - 09 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-marys-mosaic.pdf
... smear campaign against him to journalists Penrose and Courtiour (Pencourt) resulting in 'questioning pressure' from the Cabinet Office on the then ex-Prime Minister. (p . 320 ) In the House of Commons on 14 December 1977 Stephen Hastings MP, a former MI6 officer, using Parliamentary privilege, ran the disinformation attributed to the former Czech intelligence officer Joseph Frolik that a group of British trade unions leaders were 'agents' of Soviet intelligence. Frolik was being run by the CIA. (p . 321) These incidents, at the end of the remarkable sequence of events in the three years preceding Hasting's statement to the House of Comments which are documented in Smear!, show ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 36 - 01 Jun 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue43/lob43-44b.htm
... sources, this line was also run by John Ware, the journalist who has been given much of this information in the past couple of years. In 'Exposing the dirty war' (The Sunday Times Review, 13 April 2003) just before Stevens' publication, Ware wrote of:'.....a group of shadowy intelligence operatives who believed they were accountable to nobody' (emphases added). And in case we hadn't got the message, Liam Clarke told us in The Sunday Times that the man who had been in charge of the FRU, Brigadier Gordon Kerr, 'sent agents on rogue spying missions against the Russians after the fall of the Berlin Wall ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 36 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-12.htm
... into action the final player in the Pemberton-Billing/Page Croft/Beamish team Lt. Col. Charles A'Court Repington ( '. .. .career ended due to an indiscretion, 1902... ' according to the Dictionary of National Biography), the military correspondent of the Morning Post. Repington fed smears, gossip and intelligence to Pemberton-Billing. There were still some desultory peace talks with Germany under way. Repington (and those who backed him) wanted these stopped. Many allegations were aimed at Asquith and his supporters. A friend of the Asquiths (Maud Allen) was appearing, as a dancer, in a production of Wilde's Salome. Pemberton ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 36 - 01 Dec 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue38/lob38-15.htm
... , this began with changes to the conspiracy laws in 1977 – a process that continued with the Employment Act of 1982. Again, the process accelerated under New Labour, with the independence of the judiciary from the state executive being almost entirely eroded. The criminalisation of foreigners and of dissent increased, beginning with the Asylum Act of 1993 and Intelligence and Security Act of 1994, after which rival law enforcement agencies began competing with the police.(12) Although MI5 made much of its anti-fascist credentials in the first two ears following the Intelligence and Security Act of 1994, in an apparent crackdown on Combat 18, it quickly shifted its resources to the rebranding of animal ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 35 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-22.htm
