Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] as communism, it appeared that Eden’s diplomacy represented a great lost opportunity. The unravelling of the French position in Vietnam and the role of the US (and CIA) in this formed the basis of the Graham Greene novel The Quiet American (1955). and (2) the announcement in July 1955 of the lowest ever unemployment […]

The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants

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[PDF file]: […] the fine. This is where the revolving door comes in handy. A notable past Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton was James Woolsey, former director of the CIA and cheerleader for the Iraq war – which, incidentally, became one of the most rewarding boondoggles of the 21st Century.46 Along with the intelligence community, defence […]

Ukrainian psyops

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[…] existed, the source for the information in it would have been someone fairly important in Ukraine – probably Valentyn Nalyvaichenko himself, double-sourcing his own story via the CIA and thus covertly providing the US congressmen with what appeared to be domestic corroboration. A Russian presidential spokesman clearly had suspicions along similar lines about the […]

Consultants Challen

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[…] the fine. This is where the revolving door comes in handy. A notable past Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton was James Woolsey, former director of the CIA and cheerleader for the Iraq war – which, incidentally, became one of the most rewarding boondoggles of the 21st Century.46 Along with the intelligence community, defence […]

Articles of faith

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[…] half of this nicely produced, thoroughly bound 260 page paperback: the essays on the New Statesman under Kingsley Martin; Encounter, the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the CIA; and Karl Miller and the London Review of Books. These essays are very good, very well informed and a pleasure to read (and reread). I would […]

Operation Mindfuck: QAnon and the cult of Donald Trump, by Robert Guffey

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] only read fragments. O’Brien recounts tales of her sexual abuse at the hands of various American politi cians. The subtitle is The True Life Story of a CIA Mind Control Slave. In O’Brien’s view of the universe, the rich and powerful men of America need mind-controlled sex slaves to act out their fantasies. Alas, […]

The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the ‘Gladio’ networks

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Perhaps the WU(C-in-C) provided useful cover for the WUCC in that alphabet soup of government committees? 15 The American observers would have been from the newly formed CIA but were also, very likely, veterans of the wartime Office of Strategic Services. 16 By the time that the WUCC was set up in late 1949, […]

Eliot Higgins and the Ukrainian hoax, redux

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Ms Kutyakova may have come into contact with local US intelligence officers before the Russian invasion. On 20 January 2022, she presented a video made by known CIA front USAID, promoting entrepreneurialism among Eastern Ukrainians. See (video archived at ). In April 2021, Ms Kutnyakova had been helping to run an ‘IT hub’ in […]

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