Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] cover might stand for. National Archives staff were able to offer no solution. D/CIA was of course the official designation of the Director of the USA’s Central Intelligence Agency, who in 1986 would have been William J Casey (died 1987). At the time, the office was designated DCI (Director of Central Intelligence), until finally […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] is almost nothing about the CIA in the book. So it’s being marketed under false pretences. The book’s original German title translates as Bought Journalists: How Politicians, Intelligence Agencies and High Finance Control Germany’s Mass Media. The author – who died of a heart attack in 2017 – has a Wikipedia entry in English.2 […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] officers exists. A retired FBI agent, Tom Kimmel, who knew Crowley was talking to Douglas, commented that he could not understand why the ‘very introspective, very accomplished intelligence officer’ Crowley ‘embraced Stahl so unequivocally’. (p. 353) It might just have been that Douglas was skilled at flattering an old intelligence officer who had developed […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] far as Meadows was concerned, the US military leadership was ‘clearly swinging toward the radical left’ and were clearly ‘woke’ in their sympathies. (p. 61) And the intelligence agencies were not much better. There are a number of things to be said about this. First of all, how astonishing it is to have a […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] Geller was a fraud, essentially – and ended up accepting that he wasn’t. This is in part a rehash of that with some new material added, the intelligence stuff – work with Mossad and the CIA – that was aired in the TV programme ‘The secret life of Uri Geller;’ 1 plus some further […]