Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
[PDF file]: […] If you copy America, you get America. The best and the brightest (not) There are some dumb, short-sighted fucks working in the intelligence services. Look at the CIA operation to run a fake vaccination drive in Abbotabad in the attempt to verify that Osama Bin Laden was living there. How many genuine vaccination drives […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
[PDF file]: […] refugee camps, providing shelter, food and healthcare. But other areas of its activity ‘were directly tied to the intelligence community’. The IRC ran the camps while the CIA trawled them for intelligence sources and for recruits for the various paramilitary outfits it ran. And, on top of that the IRC was also instrumental in […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] Polish intelligence service in the 1950s who leaked lots of material to the West.4 He thought he was leaking to the FBI, because he didn’t trust the CIA which he believed to have been penetrated by the Soviets. But it was the CIA which was receiving his documents and it was the Agency which […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] years younger, cochaired that joint inquiry, went on to sponsor the Patriot Act and loudly objected to an independent 9/11 inquiry before becoming Bush’s director of the CIA in 2004.7 Complex, difficult and painful If the mainstream media pay any attention to this month’s 15th anniversary of 9/11, I doubt there will be much […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] tone of US–Cuba relations since then. Officially the embargo was decreed because the new government of Fidel Castro nationalised assets claimed by US corporations.1 3 A special CIA focus — 12 Horne (2014), p. 267 13 Both the public ones (oil cartels, utilities, distillers) and the covert ones (e.g. organised crime syndicates who operated […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[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 […]
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 […]