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[…] plausible to me but there is much there I am not competent to evaluate. A pity then that This Will Hold chose to run ‘Ex-CIA Whistleblower: “The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won”’.25 For a little poking around about the author, Adam Zarnowski, suggests this ‘ex-CIA Whistleblower’ is not reliable.26 But the […]

The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the US Congress, named after their respective chairmen, Sen. Frank Church and Rep. Otis Pike. These select committees investigated the illegal activities of the CIA, FBI, and NSA between 1975 and 1976. 7 Calvin Coolidge, ‘After all, the chief business of the American people is business…’ Reported in a speech to the American Society […]

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[…] plausible to me but there is much there I am not competent to evaluate. A pity then that This Will Hold chose to run ‘Ex-CIA Whistleblower: “The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won”’.14 For a little poking around about the author, Adam Zarnowski, suggests this ‘ex-CIA Whistleblower’ is not reliable.15 But the […]

Life during wartime Resisting counterinsurgency by Kristian Williams et al

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to have wandered into the wrong conference.) Unfortunately the book was put together before the NSASnowden events and doesn’t directly address the largely unspoken subtext of the NSA story: how do you organise for change when the state can intercept all electronic and paper communications? Send hand-carried messages? Use pigeons? Because counterinsurgency (CI) theory […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] War’ section of the Enigma History page at Crypto Museum . 55 ‘The captured Enigma machines ended up in the vaults of CG&GS (now: GCHQ) and the NSA, or were given to other countries with the message that they could not be broken.’ Sue Halpern, ‘The Drums of Cyberwar’ at . 56 the one […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Big stuff or disinformation? The most interesting and important collection of new information that I have seen this year is at . The jancom bit of the URL refers to the Justice for Asil Nadir Committee and there is pretty convincing evidence there that he got screwed. But I was most struck by […]

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