Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] characters and events with no idea of which is which. For instance: Liggett’s youthful participation in David Ferrie’s Civil Air Patrol outfit and his recruitment by the CIA therefrom. This is plainly of key importance to understanding Liggett’s life but I have no idea whether it’s real or pretend. Mr Fleming’s characters are all […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] (it’s not actually bulky, but a slim volume) consists of an exploration of the claim of Lt. Col. Dan Marvin that he was ‘sounded out’ by a CIA officer as Pitzer’s assassin. Lt. Col. Marvin didn’t go through with it, but clearly even a failed attempt to recruit a murderer counts as evidence connected […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[PDF file]: […] the NUS’s press and publicity officer. IRIS had been formed in 1956 as the industrial wing of Common Cause — my choice as the place where the CIA spent some of its money in the UK. See the essay in Lobster 19. Nash’s former role as an employee of the ICFTU presumably explains the […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] a Senior Fellowship at the University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Other Senior Fellows at the Institute include General Graeme Lamb, the US General Stanley McChrystal and Robert James Woolsey, a former Director of the CIA. John Newsinger A new, revised and expanded edition of Newsinger’s British Counterinsurgency is out in October, published by Palgrave.