In Parish Notices in the last issue I wrote ‘there isn’t much in this issue about the economic situation because there really isn’t much to say that hasn’t already been said, for example by Larry Elliot in The Guardian every week.’ Well, I changed my mind about that and here are the bits I found … Read more
Corinne Souza Edinburgh/London: Mainstream, 2003, £15.99, h/b This is an important and interesting book but rather hard to describe because it contains so much. At its heart is Souza’s father, an Iraqi Anglophile, who became SIS’s agent in Iraq, and later in London. Using her firsthand knowledge supplemented by her father’s papers, Souza has … Read more
[…] were so clear-cut. One of the things that some of the Greenham Common women reported was ‘voices in the head’; and I have a 1976 US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report, ‘Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation’ which notes (p. 2): ‘The potential for the development of a number of antipersonnel applications is suggested by […]
[…] Colonel John Alexander, who is now NATO advisor on non-lethal weapons. As was reported in the previous Lobster 28, Alexander has consulted with both British and American intelligence agencies since Armen’s interest in him. Armen is undeterred by this harassment and his research is continuing. He has recently received 2,500 pages of declassified material […]
[…] the low-level functionary portrayed in his famous televised confession. Before becoming a journalist, Bob Woodward, of Woodward and Bernstein, had been a U.S. Navy ‘briefer’ with considerable intelligence connections, among them Alexander Haig. ‘Deep Throat’ was a device to conceal the fact that Haig was leaking to Woodward. (Or: Haig was ‘Deep Throat’.)’ One […]
From Tony Hollick A Response to David Guyatt’s Operation Black Dog, in Lobster 35. All aircraft and ordnance information is from Modern Warplanes, by Doug Richardson, Salamander Books, 1982. It would have been Saddam Hussein’s most heartfelt wish, to have the US attack Iraq with nerve gas during the 1991 Gulf War. He could then […]
[…] public relations campaign for the Kuwaiti government during the Gulf War. According to Covert Action, it is a company with strong links to the US security and intelligence community. Lloyd is the author of the anodyne history of the EEPTU, Light and Liberty (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1990). These are discussed in the next […]
[…] who will be sent to work as Resident Operators and Control Agents in foreign countries will amount to about 230.’ Considerate of them to tell the counter- intelligence services of the NATO alliance, is it not? A decade later we find the same theme in J. Bernard Hutton’s 1972 The Subverters of Liberty (p. […]
[…] book is over 440 pages, only 153 pages are the author’s. The remaining pages are duplicated copies of documents, released long time ago by the US Defense Intelligence Agency, which are readily available on the Internet. Most of the content of Rifat’s text contains serious flaws. There is no documentation to support his assertions […]
[…] was again: break-ins, pranks, things left in the house, nuisance calls – the familiar repertoire. Which is to say: we still have a secret state whose legal, intelligence and security wings are virtually unregulated. There are now elaborate procedures mimicking regulation – both Kennedy and Henderson are exploring these – but the state can […]
