The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] It was a leak not a hack.6 Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern has been saying a similar thing. McGovern’s had several conversations with senior people at the NSA. They assured him that, had the Russians been responsible for any such a hack the NSA would have detected it; but, as they didn’t detect anything, […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] justify a U.S. invasion of Cuba. . . .’ These are the Operation Northwoods documents which were included in James Bamford’s book Body of Secrets on the NSA a couple of years later and have become a staple of the parapolitical canon. Curious that such a startling revelation had to wait until 9/11 to […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] German, titled CIA, described the National Security Agency ( NSA)’s work in some detail and even named its then director, Ralph Canine.84 As the existence of the NSA was not publicly acknowledged until the 1970s, this came from an intelligence source, presumably the KGB. The third is the fact that Joesten’s writing about the […]

View from the bridge

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[…] German, titled CIA, described the National Security Agency ( NSA)’s work in some detail and even named its then director, Ralph Canine.71 As the existence of the NSA was not publicly acknowledged until the 1970s, this came from an intelligence source, presumably the KGB. The third is the fact that Joesten’s writing about the […]

View from the bridge

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[…] German, titled CIA, described the National Security Agency ( NSA)’s work in some detail and even named its then director, Ralph Canine.61 As the existence of the NSA was not publicly acknowledged until the 1970s, this came from an intelligence source, presumably the KGB. The third is the fact that Joesten’s writing about the […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] it. It could refer to the indiscriminate trawling of private communications which is at the root of the current controversy over Edward Snowden’s revelations, with the American NSA and Britain’s GCHQ now notoriously in cahoots. It could also cover the question of accountability, and the fact that none of us was told – and […]

View from the bridge

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[…] German, titled CIA, described the National Security Agency ( NSA)’s work in some detail and even named its then director, Ralph Canine.61 As the existence of the NSA was not publicly acknowledged until the 1970s, this came from an intelligence source, presumably the KGB. The third is the fact that Joesten’s writing about the […]

View from the bridge

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[…] German, titled CIA, described the National Security Agency ( NSA)’s work in some detail and even named its then director, Ralph Canine.61 As the existence of the NSA was not publicly acknowledged until the 1970s, this came from an intelligence source, presumably the KGB. The third is the fact that Joesten’s writing about the […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 1974), chapter 4, ‘The Charity Game’. 5 39 Juan de Onis, ‘Ramparts Says CIA Received Student Report’, New York Times, February 16, 1967; ‘Will Pull Out of NSA, Oberlin Chapter Warns’, Beacon Journal, February 19, 1967; Caspar Nannes, ‘Council of Churches Admits Aid from Probed Groups’, Washington Star, February 21, 1967; Orr Kelly, ‘CIA […]

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[…] and partly unintelligible. The readable piece is at . 17 work in some detail and even named its then director, Ralph Canine.53 As the existence of the NSA was not publicly acknowledged until the 1970s, this came from an intelligence source, presumably the KGB. The third is the fact that Joesten’s writing about the […]

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