Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] (and the UK) in their absurd attempts to fight the ‘war on terror’, and the cause of much harassment of individuals, such as Edmonds, Amin, and the CIA and Pentagon intelligence officer Richard Barlow, (9)who, by merely doing their assigned jobs, learned things which the American and British states wish they hadn’t and are […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)
[…] thousands of pro-Nazi soldiers and war criminals from Eastern Europe, groups which eventually were formed into the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, funded by MI6 and then the CIA. Why did the British state import these people? First, they were regarded as potential sources of information and agents in the anti-Soviet struggle which had been […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] as an agent – hardly positions of influence to rival that of his previous employment as the head of SIS’s anti-Soviet desk and liaison officer with the CIA in Washington. It can be argued, however, that the political and social damage inflicted on the then British ruling elite by the various defections, and the […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] is that it was a disastrous fuck-up in which the yahoos and Cowboys in the Pentagon overrode the advice (and planning) of those sensible Yankees in the CIA and the State Department.(5) For the junior British half of the story it was a disastrous fuck-up in which either the Foreign Office failed to warn […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)
[…] which Hitchens seems to have flunked), letters to editors, and the texts of some of his e-mail Anti-Empire Reports.() If you know his previous work on the CIA and American imperialism ()you know what to expect. If you don’t know Blum, you should; and this is as good and as entertaining a […]