Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] seriously enough. Notes This is not mentioned by the authors. Enemy Within (London: John Murray, 1995) In a legal sense she is probably telling the truth: GCHQ/ NSA would do the intercepts and Special Branch ran the agents, as has been admitted since. I discuss this in my contribution to Granville Williams (ed.) Shafted: […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] theft by sections of the Federal government; its alleged abilities to access all other systems to which it is connected; and its alleged distribution world-wide so the NSA (?) could access, via the soft-ware, other countries’ information systems; Earl Brian, who may have sold it, who may have been part of the Bush October […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
Reflections on the ‘cult of the offensive’: pre-emptive war, the Israel lobby and US military Doctrine In our book, Spies, Lies and the War on Terror,(1) a central theme is the ascendancy of pre-emptive war doctrine in US military strategy and its impact on public perceptions and the construction of political narrative. A parallel and […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] created by Congress in December 1994, and heard testimony from present and former intelligence officials: it recommended the elimination of as many as 5,000 jobs within CIA, NSA and DIA. Next day, the House Intelligence Committee (dominated by Republicans) issued its own report, which recommends (as predicted by Lester Coleman in Unclassified) the subordination […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] very large It’s been years since anything from Rolling Stone has seemed worthy of note but in 2005 it published a long piece by chronicler of the NSA, James Bamford, on the American private sector psy-ops/perception managers, the Rendon Group: ‘The man who sold the war: meet John Rendon’.(5) Bamford’s essay shows the enormous […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] long been full of military spooks – General Charles P. Cabell and Admiral Stansfield Turner, for instance. But, according to Coleman, CIA has already lost control of NSA to the Pentagon, who will also run the new Defense Human Intelligence Service (DHIS). DHIS, which will be at the heart of future covert ops, will […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] satellites, and communications satellites.’ (Britannica Yearbook, 1963, p.757) 20 September 1963: JFK made a speech at UN, proposing joint US/USSR Moon Program. 12 November 1963: Kennedy issued NSA Memorandum #271 to NASA Administrator instructing him to personally develop ‘a program of substantive co-operation with the Soviet Union in the field of outer space…… including […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
Sources CD-Rom JFK Assassination: a Visual Investigation Wilbur Films Multimedia, Medio Multimedia Inc Redmond, WA 98025-5515, USA, 1993. CD-Rom The Encyclopedia of the JFK Assassination Bob Harris and Jane Rusconi ZCI Publishing, The Infomart, 1950 Stemmons, Suite 6048 Dallas TX 75207-3109, USA. 1994 The writer of this review is of the generation that still can […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] excellent, detailed piece carrying Boston’s comments (1) also contains a number of quotes from senior administration officials of the period, including Richard Helms, Clark Clifford and former NSA head Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, all rejecting the ‘accident’ thesis. The Malcolm Kennedy case A potentially important development in the Malcolm Kennedy case (see previous Lobsters) […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
Why do they do this? In the previous issue I referred to the fictitious comments attributed by Tony Blair to a doctor in Africa. They’ve done it again. In February Blair’s spin doctor in chief, Alastair Campbell, claimed to have saved a man from being beaten by muggers, The Mail on Sunday (23 February) traced […]
