The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] knew he might face life imprisonment for doing so. A bizarre series of events, recounted in The Doomsday Machine, put them beyond the reach of both the FBI and the author. There is much in Ellsberg’s book that is bizarre, if not amusing, as he recounts what he learned about the workings of the […]

Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] (and their foreign equivalents) don’t take an interest in the malware products of private companies, especially those with connections to Unit 8200. It was reported that the FBI had bought Pegasus in 2019 but that they hadn’t chosen to use it.3 The same report said that the US government had blacklisted NSO for fear […]

Running Rings

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] likely to go rogue than state employees? And does GCHQ vet all recruits, including American employees of Amazon Web Services? Presumably they may liaise with the CIA/ FBI et al to check people out. That activity would be just the kind of thing already privatised on the other side of the pond. Some have […]

Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ on Dealey Plaza

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] arrested ‘right after President Kennedy was shot’.9 To complicate things further, a Dallas police officer David Harkness, involved in the arrest of the hoboes, interviewed by the FBI in 1992, said: ‘On the day of the assassination there were several individuals removed from the train other than the three individuals previously identified’.1 0 Did […]

Undercover killers at the BBC

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] into the hands of professional criminals in Manchester has exposed the danger of Westminster government schemes that were pioneered by Margaret Thatcher – to create a ‘British FBI’ for fighting domestic crime by 3 4 ‘Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair’, Lobster 34 (Winter 1998). 2 using redundant Cold War […]

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