The British state’s failed attempt to kill off the Freedom of Information Act

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 […]

View from the Bridge

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[…] his readers that two senior American military officers, Col Fletcher Prouty and General Victor Krulak, identified the figure with his back to the camera as the senior CIA officer Edward Lansdale.11 Could you identify someone you knew without seeing their face? Perhaps. If it was Lansdale, he is the only CIA officer positively identified […]

Thieves of State by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] military high command will continue to succeed in portraying Afghanistan as ‘the good war’. The United States overthrew the Taliban by means of a comparative handful of CIA agents and special forces personnel allied with the warlords of the Northern Alliance. With the support of overwhelming US air power, this small army was able […]

View from Bridge 87pdf

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[…] his readers that two senior American military officers, Col Fletcher Prouty and General Victor Krulak, identified the figure with his back to the camera as the senior CIA officer Edward Lansdale.7 Could you identify someone you knew without seeing their face? Perhaps. If it was Lansdale, he is the only CIA officer positively identified […]

View from the Bridge 87

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[…] his readers that two senior American military officers, Col Fletcher Prouty and General Victor Krulak, identified the figure with his back to the camera as the senior CIA officer Edward Lansdale.7 Could you identify someone you knew without seeing their face? Perhaps. If it was Lansdale, he is the only CIA officer positively identified […]

Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy by Tim Milne

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 […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] was to spread across much of the globe. Informal empire in Chile That much is familiar, along with the role played by the Nixon administration and the CIA in destabilising Allende’s government and covertly backing opposition to it in Chilean business and military circles.2 There are, however, two aspects of the Chilean affair which […]

Fifteen years on from 9/11

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 […]

A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] so low key and muted that the reader would hardly notice it; but even this criticism is soon deflected to the Commission’s inquiry agents, the FBI and CIA, and centres on what exactly Oswald was doing in Mexico City. Shenon argues that if the investigations there had been done properly evidence would have been […]

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