Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: […] the Church and Pike Committees had never met. Even Mr Panetta, who is commonly depicted as a new broom at Langley, has been part of the so-called intelligence community for more than thirty years. ‘Witches’ and ‘miracles’ There is a very strong cognitive – I would say religious and dogmatic – construct shared throughout […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
[PDF file]: […] The so-called ‘colour revolutions’ in the former Soviet satellites are presented as unproblematic with no hint of covert US influence conveyed. The political weight of the military-industrial- intelligence complex in US domestic politics is not mentioned. But these are relatively minor details in the broad sweep of his narrative. In the end, after the […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] the limelight but Richard Nixon can be observed hovering in the wings throughout this section, clearly taking notes. There is a delightful vignette in which a military intelligence officer was called before McCarthy’s subcommittee and testified that he had a conversation with a CIA officer who stated (‘flatly’) that it might become necessary to […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] Orwell: Smothered Under Journalism, London 1998, pp 154-155. The Lovestoneites were, of course, supporters of Nikolai Bukharin and followers of Jay Lovestone, expelled from the American Communist Party in 1928. In the post-war period they were to become US Intelligence assets in the effort to combat Communist influence in the British and European labour movements.
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: […] tatty plastic cover. Inside it were names, addresses and national insurance numbers. Then they found a card index. It very much resembled the way a police local intelligence filing system might work. It was organised alphabetically and each card related to a name in the folder. There were files on 3,213 construction workers. Clancy […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] another’. But, like the TV shows, the end product is easy to digest and, in this case, does provide some information on the operation of the German intelligence network in America in the late 30s and early 40s when the US was neutral, and may have stayed so had the Japanese not attacked Pearl […]