Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] is the failure to find Iraq’s ‘WMD stockpiles’ (Bush) or even an active WMD program, the original rationale for the invasion. The protagonists conveniently blame an ‘ intelligence failure’ (Bush) and ‘intelligence.…that turned out to be incorrect’ (Blair) for this omission;9 but then invoke new justifications for the war, including Saddam Hussein’s horrendous human […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] to remind myself of it. After some chapters of autobiography, Cooper has this on p. 27: On the day that I learned that the Office of Naval Intelligence had participated in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and that it was the Secret Service agent driving the limo that had shot Kennedy in […]