Pipe Dreams: the CIA, Drugs, and the Media

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] with its state-of-the-art website and a political storm began to blow. Soon Maxine Waters of the Congressional Black Caucus was calling for an investigation, and the Senate Intelligence Committee had scheduled hearings. Belatedly, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and New York Times all recognized that, this time around, they couldn’t ignore the story. […]

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The Open Side of Secrecy: Britain’s Intelligence and Security Committee

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

Anthony Glees, Philip J. Davies, and John N. L. Morrison London: The Social Affairs Unit, 2006, £20, h/b   The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) is a recent addition to the roster of Whitehall bodies; the motives of those who created it, as the authors show, are obscure and its role to some extent […]

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Rebranding SIS

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] (including internal and/or ‘friendly’), as ‘enemy’, even if the attack was out-sourced to an individual or terrorist organisation – knew exactly what they were doing. No national intelligence agency, including SIS, defines its product since this changes according to local markets. It is the ‘branding’, targeted overseas at both the status quo and the […]

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Rothschild, the right, the far-right and the Fifth Man

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] badly shaken last year by the many innuendoes linking him to the Cambridge spy ring of the 1930s. A typical example was Anthony Glees’ book on ‘British intelligence and Communist Subversion’: “Rothschild (was) remarkably intimate with people subsequently proven to be secret Communists, and Blunt was a major Communist mole”. (1) In a gesture […]

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Maria Novotny: From Prague With Love

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

[…] affairs and personal intrigues of Ward, Profumo and Ivanov were the British Security Services; and further back, and probably not apparent to the participants, was the wider intelligence battle between East and West. It is worth going into some detail on this area as it provides clues to Novotny’s true position.(13) In April 1961 […]

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Rebel, rebel

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Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

British Spies and Irish Rebels British Intelligence and Ireland, 1916-1945 Paul McMahon Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2008, h/b, £30 First up, I have no specialist knowledge of this area, so if there any howlers in here, I’m unlikely to spot them. However, I know a good book when I see one. This has […]

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Non-lethality: John B. Alexander, the Pentagon’s Penguin

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] and Janet Morris, two of the main proponents of the concept. (1) The concept of non-lethal weapons is not new. Non-lethal weapons have been used by the intelligence, police and defence establishments in the past. (2) Several western governments have used a variety of non-lethal weapons in a more discreet and covert manner. It […]

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JFK: The two Oswalds. One Hell of a Gamble

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] impersonating the real LHO, we’re talking about a shadow Oswald who can be documented from the early 1950s onwards. As Armstrong states: In the early 1950s an intelligence operation was underway that involved two teenage boys: Lee Oswald from Fort Worth and a Russian-speaking boy named ‘Harvey Oswald’ from New York. Beginning in 1952 […]

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Surf’s up! Internet sites of interest

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] search the EPA publications catalogue. CIA http://www.odci.gov/cia Includes general information about the CIA (its history, mission, and a virtual tour), publications (including World Factbook and Factbook on Intelligence, Chiefs of State and cabinet members of foreign governments, handbook of economic statistics and CIA maps). US Intelligence Community http://www.odci.gov/ic A group of 13 US government […]

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Kincoragate – Loose Ends

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] (in Sunday News 20th Feb. and The Phoenix, 19th Feb.1983) that at the heart of the disclosures over the Kincora scandal is an internal row in the intelligence services. A dissident faction is thought to have formed in the Secret Service. The scuffles over revelations concerning Kincora started with the writing of a book […]

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