Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] the now famous ‘plagiarised report’, ‘Iraq, its infrastructure of concealment, deception and intimidation’, comprised of material taken from the Middle East Review of International Affairs and Jane’s Intelligence Review, without acknowledgement, reproduced with their original errors but rewritten in places to make it seem more impressive.(4) This was business as usual for the Campbell […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)
[…] 1970s program at Stanford Research Institute in Melano Park, CA, to Russell Targ.(2) The CIA announcement On September 6, 1995, the Public Affairs Bureau of the Central Intelligence Agency released the following statement regarding that agency’s role in Remote Viewing: ‘As mandated by Congress, CIA is reviewing available information and past research programs concerning […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] cover-up; concede a little more; maintain what’s left and so on – in the hope that we don’t notice what they’re doing. Thus the admission that important intelligence information was kept from Lord Hutton (but given to Lord Butler);(1) and the absurd spectacle of Foreign Secretary Jack Straw announcing in October, after the Iraq […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency Richard Helms and William Hood (New York: Random House, 2003) The Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby John Prados Oxford University Press: Cary , 2003 The Man Who Kept the Secrets Thomas Powers (New York: Knopf: 1979) Honorable […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
Accountability I will be discussing a non subject – the accountability of the intelligence services. By accountable we mean the ability to be brought to account, to be answerable for their actions, to be subject to scrutiny and ultimately to have their actions adjudicated upon in a court of law. I will be looking […]