Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] African causes. He is now a London-based businessman and is a former Liberal Democrat councillor in the London Borough of Haringey. He co-authored British Intelligence and Covert Action and KGB/CIA, Global Intelligence: The World’s Secret Services Today and was also a co-author of three chapters in the collection Dirty Work 2: The CIA in Africa.
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] the Watcher? Redux Permanent Record Edward Snowden London: MacMillan, 2019 Citizenseven ‘I used to work for the government, but now I work for the public’, claims former CIA employee and National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden in the second sentence of recent memoir, Permanent Record. That this immodest claim is one of the […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] warned in advance of the Watergate burglary and let it happen, before arresting ‘the plumbers’. Even if, as is speculated here, that policeman was linked to the CIA in some way, this is not setting them up.1 The book is interesting chiefly as a firsthand account of a career agent/agent provocateur for the American […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] the true size of an economy? For clarity, on a purely statistical basis, the data collected by the IMF, the UN, the World Bank and even the CIA is worth looking at in some detail. This shows that the UK is the 21st largest country in the world in terms of population. But GDP […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] postal service, in the days before e-mail, the internet and bulk data collection of information. The FBI was operating a constitution-violating domestic mail interception program, and the CIA had its own version called HT/LINGUAL to monitor overseas mail (in which capacity the Agency was already well aware of Lee Oswald’s letters to and from […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] of the events in Dallas can be summarised thus: everybody was involved – mob, military, anti-Castro Cubans, FBI, Oswald and Ruby, LBJ, ‘Mac’ Wallace….but not, apparently, the CIA. The CIA are almost entirely missing from this story. It’s the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) Mackenzie writes about frequently. For a JFK buff the oddity of […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] Jordan and/or of Nasser blackmailing the UK drove Eden on. Having reached a secret agreement with France and the UK (24 Codenamed Operation Fat Fucker by the CIA. After his abrupt departure, King Faroukh’s private and extensive collection of pornography was the subject of some asttention. 2 October 1956), Israel attacked Egypt on 28 […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] the author of The Assault on Intelligence, was an Air Force General, who went on to become Director of National Intelligence (1999-2005) and then Director of the CIA (2006-2009). Even more than the previous two volumes under review, Hayden brings to the fore that so repugnant is the character of Donald Trump, and so […]