Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq by John W. Dower

Lobster Issue

[…] known how much uranium had been transported from Germany to Japan at that point in time, the US was aware, from its ability to read Japanese signals intelligence, that the Japanese Navy had a flotilla of aircraftcarrying submarines and were considering using these to carry out a long distance raid against a major target […]

The Establishment And how they get away with it by Owen Jones

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] there are deficiencies. For someone who apparently spent two years on postgraduate study of US history, Jones is weak on tracing links with UK in matters of intelligence and Atlanticism more broadly. He mentions, for example, Anthony Crosland, but not his CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom spell. He mentions the Heritage Foundation, but not […]

The MOSSAD Spy by Olivia Frank

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE
To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

[PDF file]: […] see what others hadn’t: Olivia’s life spent concealing the fact that she felt she was a woman might have given her the deception skills to be an intelligence officer. At 18 she joined the Israel Defence Force (IDF) as a woman, in preparation for entering Mossad. There are vivid accounts of military engagements and […]

Gangsterismo: The United States, Cuba and the Mafia: 1933 to 1966 by Jack Colhoun

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] archives. So this is something like the official version. But only from the US side. There is little from the Cuban state’s version of events, notably its intelligence services, which penetrated the anti-Castro groups in America.1 The Mob flits in and out of the story. Although they put millions up at the beginning of […]

Britain’s Secret Wars: How and Why the United Kingdom sponsors conflict around the world by T. J. Coles

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] this book Coles uses the same techniques to explore…. well, not really secret wars so much as barely reported foreign policy events: military training missions, weapons sales, intelligence operations and attempts to manipulate other (relatively minor) countries in the interests of either – take your pick – multinationals or the global free trade agenda. […]

Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy From Truman to Trump by Jonathan Marshall

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] As a result, 120 of So that is one ‘invisible government’. Six years later David Wise and Thomas Ross published their ground-breaking book about the world of intelligence and also called it The Invisible Government. The text is online at or . 1 I write ‘allegedly’ here because not everyone thinks there was a […]

GLADIO: NATO’s dagger at the Heart of Europe; the Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis by Richard Cottrell

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 1974 Cottrell has added the Cecil King-Lord Mountbatten meeting of 1968. (pp. 236/7) He has Sir Maurice Oldfield, a career-long SIS officer, as ‘MI5’s director of counter- intelligence and deputy controller’. He tells us (p. 240) that Peter Wright’s book ‘gave credence to Wilson’s persistent claims that he was the target of a conspiracy […]

The British state’s failed attempt to kill off the Freedom of Information Act

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] problem with US FOIA.’16 The CIA Operational Files exemption to which Mr Jones is referring was created in 1984 (appropriately, some might think) and allows the Central Intelligence Agency to withhold anything it claims is ‘operational’ without even requiring the material in question to be reviewed. ‘ the CIA has stretched the definition of […]

Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

[PDF file]: […] to achieve a rapid seizure of power in the name of the ‘National Will’, in senior ranks of the armed forces and sections of the security and intelligence services, on the Right of the Conservative Party, in business and financial circles and among sections of the media. The object seems to have been the […]

Cryptoscatology: Conspiracy Theory as Art Form by Robert Guffey

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] or false is a handicap. He tells us that H. G. Wells was a member of the Round Table and spent WW2 as the head of British intelligence. Neither claim is true; and the fact that on this he cites the late Jim Keith, one of the less reliable people in this area, for […]

Accessibility Toolbar