The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq by Emma Sky

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for pushing this policy, handing the country over to Nuri al-Maliki. Her hostility was reciprocated with one of Hill’s staff describing her as a ‘goddam fucking British spy’. For the US military, ‘the greatest threat to the mission had become the US embassy’. Her identification with the US military was complete. They had success […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Europe was straightforward: the War on Terror you are just embarking on is one we have been fighting since our birth. Let our high-tech firms and privatized spy companies show you how it’s done.’ ‘It’s not an exaggeration to say that the War on Terror industry saved Israel’s faltering economy, much as the disaster […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] government sat on the bank’s board of directors. One of the high points of Noriega’s cooperation was Operation Pisces, a Duane R. Clarridge and Digby Diehl, A Spy for All Seasons: My Life in the CIA (New York: Simon and Schuster) 2002, pp. 237, 342. 10 11 Newsday, January 31, 1992. Steve Albert, The […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] were planning to bug various countries’ delegations at the UN. A book about her and that incident has been published in America: Marcia and Thomas Mitchell, The Spy Who Tried To Stop A War: Katharine Gun And The Secret Plot To Sanction The Iraq Invasion (PoliPoint Press, Sausalito, CA. 2008). This is reviewed in […]

Some thoughts on The Russia Report

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of 2017: ‘Britain’s energy companies were hacked on the day of the General Election by computer criminals believed to have been backed by Russia. The Government’s electronic spy agency GCHQ said in an official report sent to the energy sector that companies “are likely to have been compromised” in the wake of the attack […]

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