I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] fell completely out of fashion in the UK after 1945 but would later 5 Jean Millstein (anglicised as John Mills – not the actor) served as an intelligence officer for the Polish government in WW2, and possibly for the Polish government in exile after 1945. He described Les Ambassadeurs, which he started as early […]

Ukrainian Psyops

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[PDF file]: […] brought seven mobile crematoriums into Crimea to conceal troop losses and destroy evidence of Russian war crimes. Furthermore, they were operating under the control of Russian military intelligence. ‘Each of these crematoriums burns 8-10 bodies per day,’ Nalyvaichenko declared.2 The cremation of a corpse is not easy or trivial. Humans come in all shapes […]

Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

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[PDF file]: […] version of events. (I give some examples from Operation Chiffon later in this review.) By making this massive compromise he gains access to the ‘secret world’ of intelligence, and is allowed to meet people who would not normally talk to reporters. The question of whether anything they have to say is true, seems to […]

Ukrainian psyops

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[…] brought seven mobile crematoriums into Crimea to conceal troop losses and destroy evidence of Russian war crimes. Furthermore, they were operating under the control of Russian military intelligence. ‘Each of these crematoriums burns 8-10 bodies per day,’ Nalyvaichenko declared.2 The cremation of a corpse is not easy or trivial. Humans come in all shapes […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] version of events. (I give some examples from Operation Chiffon later in this review.) By making this massive compromise he gains access to the ‘secret world’ of intelligence, and is allowed to meet people who would not normally talk to reporters. The question of whether anything they have to say is true, seems to […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] version of events. (I give some examples from Operation Chiffon later in this review.) By making this massive compromise he gains access to the ‘secret world’ of intelligence, and is allowed to meet people who would not normally talk to reporters. The question of whether anything they have to say is true, seems to […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] new * Neon and day-glow guns ‘R’ us. Former NSA contractor Reality Winner1 is currently incarcerated pre-trial for alleged leaking to the press of details on American intelligence agencies investigations into foreign interference during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Much of the media coverage has included humorous references to Ms Winner’s claim that she […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] love and peace Instrumental in the creation of a permanent war system – true to Orwell’s predictions, always called ‘peace’ – was the establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency. Although officially the purpose of the CIA was to coordinate all the national intelligence activities for the executive branch of the US regime, this begs […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Horse Guards Road , you’re likely to find that everyone but you is an investment banker!’ 3 Fixing facts, faking history I think that the phrase ‘the intelligence and the facts were being fixed round the policy’, which was in the 2002 memo from Matthew Rycroft to a section of those managing the UK’s […]

Misc reviews

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[…] is still possible to navigate through this foggy, booby-trapped interior landscape; but he also shows how difficult the journey becomes once the mob begins to gather. * Intelligence Wars American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda Thomas Powers New York Review Books, 2002, £16.99, h/b S omewhere between an academic and a journalist, Thomas […]

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