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 […]
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 […]
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 […]