View from Bridge copo

Lobster Issue

[…] this edition of Lobster. *new* Still in Dallas On JFKfacts is a recent note by Chad Neagle, ‘Tale of Two Defectors; One was thoroughly debriefed by the CIA. The other was accused of killing JFK.’1 Neagle points out the significance of a recently declassified CIA memo about the debriefing of Robert Webster.2 Like Oswald, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] their rivals on other similar papers or TV programmes – none of which are enhanced by straying off the reservation. Gary Webb and his stories about the CIA, the Contras and cocaine – the dark alliance as he called it – in the San Jose Mercury News in 1996, illustrated what can happen when […]

A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11

Lobster Issue

[PDF file]: A BALLAD OF DRUGS AND 9/11 The truth shall make you free — CIA Slogan At the First Emperor’s Tomb the Chinese People’s Republic shows you a preliminary movie in which this monument of empire is seen through the eyes of peasants who rose up in revolt and smashed the terra cotta statues we […]

Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] the Nobel Peace Prize. The story has its origins in the 9/11 attack on the United States and the Bush administration’s response. On the one hand, the CIA was let loose to hunt down the perpetrators with J Cofer Black famously promising the idiot president that ‘when we’re through with them, they will have […]

The strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] Inside the Company. It was Agee’s memoir, followed by his book On the Run and the collection Dirty Work, which made me realise that to understand the CIA it was necessary to comprehend the secret language of national security of which it is the ultimate guardian. There is a code, if you will, an […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] 5 See, for example, or 6 7 8 2 After the attempted murder of Alexei Navalny by the Russian state, it had an article headlined ‘Navalny poisoning: CIA, MI6, “discredited” state-funded Bellingcat play key role in accusing Russia’.9 *new* Getting Corbyn The campaign to destroy Jeremy Corbyn has been described in this journal in […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] 5 See, for example, or 6 7 8 2 After the attempted murder of Alexei Navalny by the Russian state, it had an article headlined ‘Navalny poisoning: CIA, MI6, “discredited” state-funded Bellingcat play key role in accusing Russia’.9 *new* Getting Corbyn The campaign to destroy Jeremy Corbyn has been described in this journal in […]

A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[PDF file]: […] Century’. Knightley thinks spies have been a waste of time and money in time of peace. He lists many instances of farce and chaos. He quotes imprisoned CIA officer Aldrich Ames’ opinion that it was all ‘a self-serving sham carried out by careerist bureaucrats who managed to deceive policy-makers and the public about the […]

Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] Century’. Knightley thinks spies have been a waste of time and money in time of peace. He lists many instances of farce and chaos. He quotes imprisoned CIA officer Aldrich Ames’ opinion that it was all ‘a self-serving sham carried out by careerist bureaucrats who managed to deceive policy-makers and the public about the […]

Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] Century’. Knightley thinks spies have been a waste of time and money in time of peace. He lists many instances of farce and chaos. He quotes imprisoned CIA officer Aldrich Ames’ opinion that it was all ‘a self-serving sham carried out by careerist bureaucrats who managed to deceive policy-makers and the public about the […]

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