Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] who would have thought that James Watson, who ‘had earlier won fame for his role in discovering the double-helix structure of DNA’, once served ‘on a secret Pentagon CBW advisory panel’. Hersh’s discussion of My Lai – he rightly calls it a ‘National Disgrace’ – is essential reading, although it was merely the tip […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] Goodhart said that, ‘I did once hear that the services regard the Shiv Malik piece on 7/7 as essential reading inside the “security state”’ and added: ‘a Pentagon official once said the same.’ Goodhart went on to say: ‘if Hassan Butt has now been “exposed” as a liar and fantasist we were certainly not […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] engages, America is always right, well intentioned and frequently the victim. That this fantastic lie is in the films owes something (how much isn’t clear) to the Pentagon and CIA liaison operations with the studios. ‘Wanna borrow a submarine? Talk to the Navy guy?’ If Alford isn’t quite describing the corporations and the state […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] of Staff of the U.S. Air Force to provide special Air Force support to certain clandestine CIA overflight operations. In April 1960, a member of the Chief’s Pentagon office staff was in Thailand overseeing a major series of long-range overflights into Tibet and far northwestern China. Later that spring, orders came down to stop […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] private is better than the public; in this case, that the private sector could implement change faster than the state, could shake-up the rigid bureaucracies of the Pentagon and MOD to create the new, dynamic forces for the rapidly changing strategic environments (etc etc, boilerplate, boilerplate). And hey, if we make a shit-load of […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] the Watergate burglary because two of its planners had engaged in a previous felony break-in, ordered by the White House, to discredit Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon Papers. They were members of a secret ‘Special Investigations Unit’, created at Nixon’s orders to engage in burglaries, forgery and other crimes to discredit his enemies […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] army by almost three to one.’4 0 This was because Aegis, with strong input from Spicer, had won a contract in Iraq worth $293 million from the Pentagon, ‘… to co-ordinate security for reconstruction projects, as well as support for other private military companies, in Iraq.’4 1 By pure coincidence, at the time that […]