Drugging America: a Trojan Horse

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] in US history to be charged with a particular minor technical offence connected to ‘consensual searches’ and is sentenced to three years in prison; the FBI Special Agent in Charge of the New York office, who comes to the defence of this INS official, is suspended two months before he was due to retire. […]

The limits of accountability

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

We know that torture is going on in secret and not so secret prisons. We know thanks to the excellent research done by <www.cageprisoners.com> that elements of the British government, be they MI5, MI6 or diplomats from the FCO, have been involved. Yet we seem unable to stop it. Civic society raises its voices in … Read more

Peter’s friends?

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] August did not run the story but two other papers that day were dropping big hints. The Sunday Telegraph reported that ‘…a friend of the former MI5 agent told the Sunday Telegraph that there was “concrete evidence” that two senior ministers had worked for the security service…..the same source said that Mr Shayler’s girlfriend, […]

Re:

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

Assassination or ‘targeted killings’? Joshua Raines of the University of Iowa College of Law argues that although assassination, ‘narrowly defined’ [sic], is illegal, ‘targeted killings’ could well be permissible under ‘just war’ criteria. The US should therefore pass legislation that allows for ‘…targeted killings under a very narrow range of circumstances with adequate checks built … Read more

Iraq

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] French intelligence, as some kind of wheeze to plant dodgy documents on the Anglo-American alliance and then expose them as fraudulent. See, for example, Bruce Johnston, ‘ Agent behind fake uranium documents worked for France’, The Sunday Telegraph 19 September 2004. 7. Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction, HC 898, July 2004, […]

The Cyprus Conspiracy: America, Espionage and the Turkish Invasion

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] do know something, there are some dumb mistakes. The Fluency Committee was not set up in Whitehall to examine the evidence that Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent (p.148); Colin Wallace has not ‘admitted putting out anti-Wilson material in an operation known as Clockwork Orange’ (p.149). Do such minor errors matter? I doubt it […]

U.S Army Intelligence mind control experimentation

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

This article examines hallucinogenic-type drug experiments conducted by various elements of the U.S. Army Intelligence community in conjunction with sections of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps. Most of the related records have been destroyed. The following is what I have been able to salvage from the records available on these programs. Edgewood Tests From the … Read more

Remote Viewing and the US intelligence community

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] to targets by independent judges).'(37) Coordinate Remote Viewing ASPR experiments, using a ‘beacon’, were not of much use for any espionage remote viewing programme: they required an agent to be placed in the target area, which was not feasible. And providing the name of the distant target would have resulted in too much cueing […]

Enemies of the State

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] that the new material on Murrell is based on a prison whisper. Murray is convinced that ‘the person in charge of the attack was a former MI5 agent who has left the service to run a private detective agency’ (Staines and Egham News, 12 August 1993), and works five minutes from Marble Arch (Outlook, […]

Print: Journals and book review

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] was seeking additional aid to the Contras. CBS Evening News (7-28-88) – the only major network to cover the proceedings – reported on the testimony of DEA agent Ernest Jacobsen, who said that White House officials undermined a DEA probe of the Colombian cocaine kingpins by blowing an undercover informant’s cover when they leaked […]

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