Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] the author of the following paragraph. “Geheim works closely with a network of publications in other countries that frequently carry Soviet disinformation themes, particularly directed against the CIA. These are: Lobster in Great Britain; Intelligence Newsletter, formerly Intelligence/Parapolitics, in France; and Covert Action Information Bulletin in the United States.’ — p. 34 of Romerstein’s […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] communities in the post-9/11 world. The book wrestles with these key questions: how is it that the super-rationalist West, with all of the massive resources of the CIA, TIARA (Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities) and SIS, were completely unable to stop a few guys with Stanley knives flying jet planes into the World Trade […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] includes belief in racial and other dominance, but leaves them unable to cope in a market-place where: a) the ‘prestige’ (for want of another word) of former CIA or SIS employment may be a hindrance rather than a help; b) they have to compete with sophisticated others, including diasporas who have years of pooled […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
Tom Mangold (Simon and Schuster, London and New York, 1991) On things Angleton, Tom Mangold’s Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton (Simon and Schuster, London and New York, 1991) is very good but is not the biography it pretends to be. There is nothing on Angleton’s time in Italy after the war; and, even more extraordinary, […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] the American people at a great cost to liberty.’ For thirty years the NSA obtained copies of most telex messages entering and leaving the U.S., and the CIA illegally intercepted thousands of first-class letters as they left the country. If the high-tech NSA were ever turned against us, Church said, ‘no American would have […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] what, is going on here. Finally, on 28th March Ken asked the junior MOD minister, Roger Freeman, “If he will provide details of the use of forged CIA documents by the armed forces in Northern Ireland from 1971 to the present date.”Consider the alternatives facing the civil servant who answered this. If the answer […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] It should be a major work, extremely well-researched (see his previous work on Shadrin) with many new interviews and material. Due soon from Carter’s Director of the CIA, Admiral Stansfield Turner (Rhodes Scholar 1947), is Security and Democracy: the CIA in transition. And a new blockbuster is on the way from Anthony Summers, he […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] be thought to be encouraging the crazier end of the UFO conspiracy world but among the mountains of documents in Armen Victorian’s possession is a purported 1962 CIA document reporting the results of phone-taps of conversations between the journalist Dorothy Kilgallen and a friend of hers, one Howard Rothberg. Rothberg told Kilgallen that Monroe […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
Paddy the spook Since the last issue I have skimmed Paddy Ashdown’s two volumes of diaries. While dominated by his attempt to do a deal with the Blair-led Labour Party, there are some other interesting snippets; and, through Ashdown’s eyes, there is a detailed portrait of Tony Blair which suggests that Rory Bremner’s impersonation of […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] has interviews about JFK (and JFK) with Mark Lane, Dick Gregory, Kerry Thornley and Jim Marrs; a piece on alternative AIDS cures; pieces titled ‘KKK, GOP and CIA’ and ‘An American Nazi and Ozark tourism’ that are too obstruse to summarise here; a piece by the ubiquitous Robert Anton Wilson; and ‘Supermarket Tabloids and […]
