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[…] column in the previous Lobster, is the official US euphemism for a wide range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck […]

The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] it had become clear that were elections to be held the government in Hanoi would win and the Saigon regime would collapse. Despite this certainty and the intelligence showing that there was absolutely no popular support for the elite in Saigon, the decision was made to have Ngô Dình Diem deposed in favour of […]

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[…] in British politics’, as the clunky headline in the Daily Mail had it.36 Two Russians were named in the article: Ruslan Aleksandrovich Peretyatko, who is an FSB intelligence officer, and Andrey Stanislavovich Korinets. On the same day it was reported in the US: A federal grand jury in San Francisco returned an indictment on […]

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[…] and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. Sloppy stuff from Covert Action ‘Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Came to Power in Carefully Planned Operation Coordinated by Western Intelligence Services, Says Former U.S. Diplomat’. Thus the headline in a piece by Covert Action’s editor, Jeremy Kuzmarov, on 4 August 2023.1 The article’s subheading piles it […]

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[…] first omission is the substantial political underpinning to the government’s assault on the NUM. For the previous 20 years or so a lobby of former and serving intelligence and security personnel had been asserting that there was a substantial Soviet threat to the UK in the form of the Communist Party of Great Britain […]

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[…] in it.3 There are indeed loose Israeli connections to JFK’s demise. Among the big items on that list would be: * James Angleton, head of CIA counter- intelligence, had his people monitoring Oswald’s activities in the US upon his return from the USSR. Why, we don’t know; and whether or not this amounted to […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Sloppy stuff from Covert Action ‘Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Came to Power in Carefully Planned Operation Coordinated by Western Intelligence Services, Says Former U.S. Diplomat’. Thus the headline in a piece by Covert Action’s editor, Jeremy Kuzmarov, on 4 August 2023.1 The article’s subheading piles it on: […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] had ingeniously argued that the last war crimes prisoner of Spandau in Berlin was not in fact Hess, but a double, substituted with the connivance of British intelligence. Rzheshevsky seemed surprised that, unlike the KGB files, the British files on Hess were closed for research until 2017 by an act of Parliament. To be […]

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[…] in it.3 There are indeed loose Israeli connections to JFK’s demise. Among the big items on that list would be: * James Angleton, head of CIA counter- intelligence, had his people monitoring Oswald’s activities in the US upon his return from the USSR. Why, we don’t know; and whether or not this amounted to […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the smear was something concocted years before in Northern Ireland for which Wilkinson was just the messenger boy. (Being the conduit for the nonsense from military and intelligence agencies was one of his roles.) When this was demonstrated to Channel Four’s management, Wilkinson lost his gig as ITN’s ‘consultant’ on terrorism. None of this […]

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