The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into The Octopus and the Promis Software Scandal by Cheri Seymour

Lobster Issue

[…] fascinating kaleidoscope of crimes and covert operations from the dark side of American life, facilitated by American moral hypocrisy and funded by the largely unregulated development of the military-industrial- intelligence complex, with enough ‘stories’ to keep a Sunday Times ‘Insight’ team going for decades, this is for you. RR Page 99 Summer 2011 Lobster 61

Hilda Murrell and the FOIA

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] holds any information which falls within scope of your request.’ However . . . exemption 23(5) can only be used when the information relates to fourteen specified intelligence, security and national policing bodies5 – only five of which were in existence at the time of Hilda Murrell’s murder: those five being MI5, MI6, GCHQ, […]

JFK’s assassination: a big new book and a strange memoir

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] military, anti-Castro Cubans, FBI, Oswald and Ruby, LBJ, ‘Mac’ Wallace….but not, apparently, the CIA. The CIA are almost entirely missing from this story. It’s the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) Mackenzie writes about frequently. For a JFK buff the oddity of Mackenzie’s account is the way he brings together a collection of minor trails – […]

The USA, China and a new Cold War?

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] into consumer goods and now is shifting fast into capital-intensive sectors based on high technology. The upshot has been rapid creation of a powerful telecommunications and artificial intelligence industry. China is in the vanguard of nations developing 5G technology, seen in the success of Huawei in penetrating international markets. This economic expansion has facilitated […]

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] from the leaking of US National Security Agency (NSA) hacking tools which fell into the wrong hands – known as the ‘Shadow Brokers’ – in 2016. US intelligence sources thought there was North Korean as well as Russian involvement with what happened to the leaked tools which, when used by the miscreants, caused global […]

THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] involved his lawyers (one of whom was Alan Dershowitz) but also the FBI (then headed by Robert Mueller). Acosta later said that he had been informed by intelligence sources that Epstein was an asset and to go easy on him. Acosta went on to serve in the Trump administration as Secretary of Labor. Not […]

The Secret War Between the Wars MI5 in the 1920s and 1930s by Kevin Quinlan

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] handling of the very significant Tyler Kent/Right Club events which might have had a serious impact on WW2, delaying American entry; and the careful debriefing of Soviet intelligence defector Krivitsky, the first of its kind. Versions of these events, based on the same files, are in Christopher Andrew’s Defence of the Realm and had […]

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