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... other than a G-man? Well, he's the fellow who was outraged by the Watergate break-in, which (we're told) was about Nixon's evil spooks breaking into, and bugging, the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate. (Never mind that the only bugging device found inside the DNC was characterized as a broken 'toy' by Felt's own FBI – that's a very different story.) Doesn't it seem a little odd that Felt should have been so outraged by James McCord's break-in at the Watergate, when he himself was presiding over a maelstrom of black-bag jobs at the FBI? I don't mean court-ordered surveillances. I'm referring to warrantless break-ins and wiretaps during the early 1970s targeting the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 37 - 01 Dec 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue50/lob50-47.htm
... is generated out of bureaucratic organisations; and nobody has to be given specific semaphore signals about what economic interests are. Each bureaucracy has its own language of ideals which it is working for, but there are overall governing forces to make sure they don't get out of hand. The system is able to bring a maverick agency (like the FBI under Hoover) back into line. The classic example of this is the Presidency, Nixon and Watergate. Here is an interesting case where a President was perceived by other elements in the system as amassing more than his share of the power and he had to be brought to heel. He was totally humiliated by a group of institutions ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 34 - 01 Feb 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue07/lob07-01.htm
... only in their candidate for 'Deep Throat'. Instead of Haig, Newman suggested the late Bob Kunkle (my phonetic spelling) who had been Special Agent in Washington in charge of the FBI's investigation of Watergate. Kunkle-- not named in Colodny and Gettlin, or in Hougan-- is a plausible candidate in my view. The FBI were getting dumped on and obstructed by the White House over Watergate-- Hoover had just seen off the so-called Houston Plan, perceived by the Bureau as a White House attempt to get a grip on the FBI-- and leaking to the media is routine bureaucratic politics and something the FBI at higher levels was adept at. Although ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 34 - 01 Dec 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue26/lob26-13.htm
... the Brookings Institute and a former CIA analyst, mentioned that we had recently learned of an FBI-Army double agent operation that may have spurred the Soviets to produce more lethal chemical and biological agents. He was referring to David Wise's book, Cassidy's Run: The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas. [Cassidy was a US Army sergeant who the FBI "dangled" before a Soviet naval attaché in 1959 and who then served as a double agent for the FBI for the next two decades.... During that time, in addition to it's counter-intelligence goals, the Cassidy operation was used in a strategic deception effort. Cassidy fed his Soviet handlers with false information designed make them ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 31 - 01 Dec 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue42/lob42-29.htm
... at 544 Camp Street. The room he rented there was in a three-storey building that had entrances on two bordering streets, and thus had two addresses: 531 Lafayette Street and 544 Camp Street. The building was part-rented by William Guy Bannister, a racist, violent anti-communist, and member of the John Birch Society. Bannister served in the FBI and had risen to be Special Agent-in-Charge of the Bureau's Chicago office. After retiring from the Feds he had been appointed assistant superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department, a position he lost after pulling a gun on a waiter in a local bar. He then formed Guy Bannister Associates, a private detective agency cum political front that reflected ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 29 - 01 Nov 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue20/lob20-02.htm
... use FOIA and other laws to obtain information on government activities); Privacy; EPIC's on-line bi-weekly newsletter covering privacy and civil liberties (can look at recent issue and back issues, http://www.epic.org/alert/). Site contains much information on the on-going debate and legislation in U.S. and Europe concerning encryption systems. The FBI and law enforcement agencies support encryption controls, high-tech companies and internet and civil liberties groups oppose. In the U.S. debate centres on the SAFE Bill (Security and Freedom through Encryption [HR 695]), and attempts by U.S. intelligence to incorporate amendments that would ensure access to encrypted data by means of some form of 'key ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 29 - 01 Dec 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue34/lob34-17.htm
... enforcement objectives, the potential for corruption was endemic. What was well known at local level, namely that vice squads served to give politicians and police their cut of organised crime, acquired national scale. Federal drug enforcement officers in competing jurisdictions took their 'cut' whether in political-bureaucratic advantage (e.g. competition between US Customs, IRS, and FBI) or 'in trade' by siphoning off profits and confiscated drugs or simply accepting bribes. Third, the ultimate bureaucratic conflict emerged once federal drug enforcement became international, based on the 'supply-side' strategy. One of the consequences of US entry into World War I was the expansion of the federal government's domestic intelligence (policing) apparatus. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 29 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-153.pdf
... (4) A brief overview In the early days of World War 2, George Estabrooks of Colgate University wrote to the Department of War, describing in breathless terms the possible uses of hypnosis in warfare.(5) The Army was intrigued; Estabrooks had a job. The true history of Estabrooks' wartime collaboration with the CID, FBI (6) and other agencies may never be told: after the war he burned his dairy pages covering the years 1940-45, and thereafter avoided discussing his continuing government work with anyone, even close members of the family. (7) Occasionally, however, his lips loosened, and he would intimate that his work involved the creation ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 28 - 01 Jun 1992 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue23/lob23-01.htm
... of vote-rigging in Dade County, Florida, two brothers, Jim and Ken Collier, decided that one of them, Ken, would run for Congress against the sitting Democrat congressman, Claude Pepper, in the 1970 election in Dade County. Pepper won in what the brothers soon realised had been a manipulated vote involving county officers, police, FBI, and judiciary. Their subsequent years of investigation only confirmed that vote-rigging was alive and well in America. One episode in the Colliers' investigation in the aftermath of the 1970 election is pertinent. They had learned that the 1,648 mechanical lever vote machines used in their election were probably stored at the Opa-Locka airport hangar. They ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 28 - 01 Jun 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue47/lob47-15.htm
... : University of Massachusetts Press, 2008, p/b, $28.95 Of all the figures in the Anglo-American spy world that we have been made aware of in the last 40 years, James Jesus Angleton was the most glamorous: the chain-smoking, the orchid-growing, the poetry-writing here was the antithesis of the dull, one-dimensional plodders in the FBI (or, for that matter, most of the CIA's 'company men'). Or so reading books and watching movies about spies has told us. There have already been two books about Angleton (5) but, as Holzman notes, they were produced during the domestic 'spy wars' period after the crises and sackings of the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 28 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-49.htm
