Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[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 64 (Winter 2012)
[PDF file]: […] continues even after al-Megrahi’s death. The book makes clear that al-Megrahi was a vulnerable figure. He, along with many other Libyans, was a US sanctions buster, had intelligence connections, two passports and did not tell his wife about his regular trips abroad, including those to Malta. But Ashton also puts that into political context […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] Council staff, and the way he pushed for the administration to recognise the Iranian threat. Woodward sings the man’s praises. Harvey is a ‘driven legend’ who ‘approached intelligence like a homicide detective – sifting through thousands of pages of interrogation reports, communications intercepts, battle reports, enemy documents, raw intelligence data and nontraditional sources such […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] they omitted from the story which is significant. To discuss Oswald-Cuba-CIA without referring to all the information we now have showing that Oswald was working for US intelligence agencies ‘How the CIA came to doubt the official story of JFK’s murder’ at or . 1 1 2 Still thinking about Dallas But the omission […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: Inside British Intelligence 100 years of MI5 and MI6 Gordon Thomas London: JR books, 2009, £20 Spooks The Unofficial History of MI5 Thomas Hennessy and Claire Thomas Stroud (Glos.): Amberley, 2009, £30 Robin Ramsay I haven’t properly read either of these books and cannot really review them. However, there are some things I can […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] whom she was doing a heroin run);1 right-wing activist, Joseph Milteer, who was bugged talking about it by the Miami police;2 John Martino, a mid-level gangster;3 and intelligence officer Richard Case Nagell.4 So, we have organised crime, the far right and a spook – the usual suspects; but rather low level.5 Would a CIA […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
[PDF file]: […] West Africa. The ELF affair is written up in his previous book, Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil, which had large multinationals, the political and intelligence elites of leading nations, corrupt leaders of developing nations and slush funds administered offshore as ‘a great brothel where nobody knows who is doing what’. It […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[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 […]