Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] and deniability ensured. A specific step in enabling this course of action to be adopted came in 1949 with National Security Council Directive 10/2. This empowered the CIA to spend money on whatever or whomever it felt would be beneficial to US interests without having to explain its decisions, leave any trace of them, […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] ever was, the central committee of global capitalism as is believed by some. 9/11 There was a very striking piece on Politico about the attempts by the CIA to warn the Bush administration about the threat posed by Al Qaeda in the months and weeks before 9/11.8 5 6 7 8 CIA personnel have […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] US intelligence community’s ‘unstated anti-Israel policy’.105 Countering these charges, the NSA, in its recently declassified but still heavily redacted account of the Yom Kippur War, blames the CIA. The NSA confirms that by September 1973 ‘more and more . . . analysts came to believe that hostilities were in the offing’. Prohibited from providing […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] as a view of the assassination it is hilarious. Hunter has JFK killed by a sniper in the Dal-Tex building on Dealey Plaza, working for a senior CIA officer who believed that Kennedy was going to embroil America deeper and deeper in the quagmire of Vietnam! In an afterword Hunter tells us that he […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] is one of the many puzzles in the case. Over the years people have put forward various candidates. For example, the ‘old tramp’ looks rather like the CIA officer Howard Hunt. But only one person ever claimed to have been one of ‘tramps’: the late Chauncey Holt. I got interested in this because it […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] specific exemptions, but as Mr Jones is keen to observe: ‘Exemption three allows Congress to pass a new exemption at any time -– this is how the CIA Operational Files exemption was created. To date there are over 300 of these on the books… including information about watermelon growing techniques! That these statutory exemptions […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] he himself established to counter Soviet operations against the UK. From 1949 to 1951 he was posted to Washington, working as the SIS liaison officer with the CIA and the FBI. He appeared to be destined for a top job in SIS, but was forced to resign in the wake of the Burgess and […]