Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] by the Reader’s Digest has been covered in more detail in his Deception (1989). And this account does nothing to clarify what was going on when a CIA officer, Jamieson, offered the Reader’s Digest access to the KGB defector, Nosenko. 1 The definitive account of the workings and failings of the Warren Commission is […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] in Hirsch and Fletcher’s 1971 Who were they travelling with? (Nottingham: Spokesman), which is now on-line at and expanded a little in Weissman, Kelly and Hosenball’s ‘The CIA backs the Common Market’, originally in Time Out in 1975 and reproduced in Philip Agee and Louis Woolf (eds.) Dirty Work: the CIA in Western Europe, […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
[PDF file]: […] of leaks of offi cial information, anonymous briefings to journalists, and public protest by retired diplomats and intelligence personnel. In the United States, the reluctance of the CIA to produce the required ‘intelligence’ led the neo-conservatives who were leading the push to attack Iraq to create the Office of Special Plans (OSP), a little […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
[PDF file]: […] knew their involvement with the US state in these activities gave them a get-out-of-jail-free card. So they went through the motions, only to report back to their CIA handlers, ‘Gee, we failed again.’ Not only did the CIA fail to assassinate Castro, they failed to get reliable information on events and sentiment within Cuba; […]