UFOs and the governments of the USA and UK

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

Researchers who ask for pertinent records from the US Air Force about UFOs are provided with a ‘Fact Sheet’ which states that since the closure of Project Blue Book in 1974, the USAF has no interest in, and does not study, the subject. The USAF information pack refers inquirers to various non-governmental UFO research organizations … Read more

Persian Drugs: Oliver North, the DEA and Covert Operations in the Mideast

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] enjoyed close connections both with elements of the Saudi royal family and Israeli leaders. Khashoggi in turn raised financing for a key sale to Iran of HAWK missile parts in the spring of 1986 from, among other sources, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.(5) Khashoggi maintained accounts at the bank and shared its […]

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US General Accounting Office Reports

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

Compiled by Jane Affleck The US GAO is the investigative arm of the US Congress, and is charged with examining all matters relating to the receipt and disbursement of public funds. It conducts audits, surveys, investigations and evaluations of federal programmes, either at its own initiative or at the request of Congressional Committees or members. … Read more

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Web update

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] www.access.gpo.gov/nara/browse-gm.html) Executive Orders – Presidential EOs, and Intelligence docs – EOs related to intelligence activities. Historic Documents, including Cold War, Cold War International History Project (http://cwihp.si.edu/default.htm), Cuban Missile Crisis (full text of 250 official govt docs at Avalon Project: www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/forrelcuba/cubamenu.htm) and the Inspector-General’s Survey of the Cuban Operations (Nat Security Archive: www.gwu.edu/ ~nsarchiv/news/ 19980222.htm), […]

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Spook PR

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] have to be partisan. As a result, an image that had ‘legs’ was not even considered, let alone used. Good PR is about accurate communications. Unlike a missile marked ‘Patriot’ (5) or ‘Made in Britain’, a T-shirt can strike its target precisely. Hatred of the USA And so to al-Qaida’s second political message, hatred […]

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Feedback

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

From David Hambling On the topic of the People Zapper (Lobster 41 p. 9), the new ‘Active Denial System’ is probably not the first microwave weapon to be deployed. There have been repeated rumours of cruise missiles with HPM (high-powered microwave) warheads being used in former Yugoslavia to knock out communications centres, though apparently the … Read more

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Sources

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] in the killings. Chile Documentation Projectwww.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/latin_america/chile.htm Chile: 16,000 Secret US Documents Declassified. Press Release at www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20001113/ The Real 13 Days – The Hidden History of the Cuban Missile Crisis http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/Includes a detailed chronology of events relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis; images of Soviet missile installations and declassified documents: declassified intelligence reports, national security […]

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Non-lethality: John B. Alexander, the Pentagon’s Penguin

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] was further confirmed to me by yet another member of the AVIARY, Ron Pandolphi, PELICAN. Pandolphi is a PhD in physics and works at the Rocket and Missile section of the Office of the Deputy Director of Science and Technology, CIA. In his book, Out There, (37) the New York Times journalist Howard Blum […]

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Getting it right: the security agencies in modern society

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

See note (1) Robin Ramsay The topic was suggested to me by Kevin O’Brien [of ICSA]. It wasn’t clear to me if it was simply that I was being played out a very long piece of rope with which to hang myself. At any rate, given such a wide title – and a title to … Read more

Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

A secret service? In the Guardian of 12 June 2000 David Leigh had an important piece on the relationship between our secret servants and the media. At the core of this was his account of the revelation, via a libel suit in London, of an MI6 operation to plant disinformation in the Sunday Telegraph about … Read more

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