Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] overthrow of the Allende government in Chile; he broke the story of the CIA’s domestic spying and helped expose the CIA’s so-called ‘Family Jewels’, the list of CIA actions which were outside the Agency’s charter. However, the pressure for reform of the CIA was ‘outmuscled by the new Ford administration, managed by Chief of […]

Superstition and farce: the survival of the Inquisition in American political culture

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the program was to mislead most people in the US about government policy and the nature of pacification. This very intense multi-agency programme, spearheaded by the CIA, produced a generation of professional assassins and colonial mandarins who have held power for the past 30-odd years: just to mention a couple, Negroponte and Holbrooke.5 […]

Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘Nato’, ‘MI5’, and ‘NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA admitted that it been operating in Ukraine, hand-in-hand with the Ukrainian security and intelligence services, for at least a decade. The relationship had started under US […]

The Secret Team

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] has no page numbers. And thus no index, of course, even though the book’s Contents lists one. Prouty’s book appeared before Philip Agee and the other other CIA whistle-blowers of the 1970s and it is hard to envisage what the impact of Prouty’s revelations might have been had the book not been suppressed. And […]

The Atlantic Semantic

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of Commons the disinformation attributed to Frolik that a group of British trade unions leaders were agents of Soviet intelligence.2 6 Frolik was being run by the CIA and Dorril and Ramsay viewed this process as evidence of how the conspiracy theories of the subversive-hunters of the British right, such as Brian Crozier, had […]

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[…] their conspiracy to oust him from power. He saw no reason to play their game or deal with their prying inspectors.’ But Saddam Hussein was correct: the CIA did indeed know they had no WMDs. I noted in Lobster 86 that two former CIA analysts had recently been talking ‘How Iraq Happened:Washington’s Fateful Misreading […]

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[…] ‘Nato’, ‘MI5’, and ‘NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA admitted that it been operating in Ukraine, hand-in-hand with the Ukrainian security and intelligence services, for at least a decade. The relationship had started under US […]

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[…] ‘Nato’, ‘MI5’, and ‘NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA admitted that it been operating in Ukraine, hand-in-hand with the Ukrainian security and intelligence services, for at least a decade. The relationship had started under US […]

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[…] ‘Nato’, ‘MI5’, and ‘NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA admitted that it been operating in Ukraine, hand-in-hand with the Ukrainian security and intelligence services, for at least a decade. The relationship had started under US […]

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[…] ‘Nato’, ‘MI5’, and ‘NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA admitted that it been operating in Ukraine, hand-in-hand with the Ukrainian security and intelligence services, for at least a decade. The relationship had started under US […]

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