South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Bower of Stewart’s fellow ex-Etonian, Boris Johnson: The Gambler,8 Stewart amusingly pointed out that Johnson’s hero from ancient Greece, Pericles, ‘had built the Parthenon, not the Emirates Cable Car’. He also neatly summed up the otherwise blindingly obvious by describing Johnson as ‘an amoral figure operating in a much bleaker and coarser culture’. Previous […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] chief of operations in the Western Hemisphere, the liaison officer for the Counterintelligence Staff, and the chief of the Mexico Desk—all of who signed off on a cable about Oswald six week before JFK was killed. In short, the declassified Webster documents are significant because they illuminate the unusual handling of Oswald the or […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to Gina Haspel, who: ‘. . . personally supervised the torture of a CIA detainee in 2002 leading to at least three waterboard sessions, subsequently drafted the cable that ordered destruction of the videotape evidence of torture, and served as a senior CIA official while the Agency was lying to itself. . . about […]

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