Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon, the CIA was virtually paralysed in the most important domain: countering the spread of misinformation by the KGB. When President Jimmy Carter, who succeeded Nixon, appointed Admiral Stansfield Turner, the CIA fired some 400 Soviet experts, on the spurious ground that they were no […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] so-called Team B exercise.(6) Then the Soviets were presented as the controllers of international terrorism, enabling the Israelis to label the Palestinians as terrorists, controlled by the KGB. This theme was launched at the Jonathan Institute conference of 1979 in Israel before being taken up by anti-detente groups within the US intelligence community. Yet […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] Arthur Darling, The Central Intelligence Agency: An Instrument of Government to 1950, Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 1990, pp. 260-261. ‘Interfering with Civil Society: CIA and KGB Covert Political Action during the Cold War’, International Journal of Intelligence and Counter-intelligence, Vol. 8 No. 4, Winter 1995, p.434. The CIA and the Marshall Plan, […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] sources and associate partners world-wide (11) Therefore, the world is being divvied-up among confreres including, say, the CIA in South America, Mossad, or today’s equivalent of the KGB, with each taking, in PR jargon, ‘lead agency status’ in their own areas. ‘Coordination’ will, of course, unravel. It always does. CIA imperatives, much like President […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)
[…] by Peter J. Huxley-Blythe, then a protégé of Knupffer. (18) The article, ‘Insecure Security’, accused the CIA of financing the NTS; Huxley-Blythe claimed NTS was really under KGB control. Knupffer and other White Russian monarchists especially despised the NTS because it had collaborated with CIA plans to balkanise the former Russian Empire by supporting […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
[…] former CIA officer Melvin Beck, the CIA was trying to photograph it, and the lobby was crawling with spies from as many five different services (FBI, CIA, KGB, GRU and DGI). While one cannot say that Jones’s 1960 visit to Cuba was necessarily a spying mission, the circumstantial evidence suggests that it was. That […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] in which Epstein tries to prove that Oswald fell victim to an elaborate Soviet intelligence ‘honey trap’ while in Japan that led him to spy for the KGB. Shortly after Legend appeared in print, however, investigators for the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) interviewed some of Epstein’s purported sources. The interviews (many now […]