The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 2001. Effectively, they handed the country over to these people and it remained with them until the fall of Kabul. But another factor is certainly that the CIA had a preference for dealing with these people anyway. Bribery and corruption was very much part of the CIA’s modus operandi; the Agency has helped keep […]

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
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[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 […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Secretary Robin Cook, ‘Al-Qaeda’ simply means the CIA’s ‘computer file or database’ of mujahideen proxy fighters funded, armed, and trained by America’s Green Berets, Navy SEALS and CIA, and Britain’s MI6 and SAS from 1979 to 1989, in an effort to ‘draw the Russians into the Afghan trap’ and destroy the Soviet Union, to […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] their feet during the talks until after the election. Which they duly did. Chennault’s role became known in the Johnson White House – presumably the NSA or CIA had the conference wired for sound – but Johnson did nothing, said nothing.27 And these events are still being suppressed on the Democratic side of American […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] their feet during the talks until after the election. Which they duly did. Chennault’s role became known in the Johnson White House – presumably the NSA or CIA had the conference wired for sound – but Johnson did nothing, said nothing.27 And these events are still being suppressed on the Democratic side of American […]

South of the Border (updated 4 Aug 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘I think that this unit was out of control. It was violating our human and legal rights.’ And the Professor is, of course, absolutely correct. *new* The CIA and Afghanistan – start as you mean to go on Following the withdrawal of western forces from Afghanistan last year, the question of fiscal probity was […]

Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War 1 to 9/11 by Kathryn S. Olmsted

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] present she judges the theories. Had she presented the minutely documented and cautious views on JFK’s death of – say – Professor Peter Dale Scott or former CIA officer John 1 Real Enemies: Iran-Contra is sketched in and she flunks the central issue of the CIA’s role in facilitating the wholesale importation of cocaine. […]

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