Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] the Islamists, condemning anyone daring to make a stand as ‘a racist, an Islamophobe, a homophobe, or a sexist’. As for Hillary Clinton, he reports that ‘ongoing FBI investigations may or may not reveal’ whether Muslim nations funding the Clinton Foundation ‘influenced her arrogant tone toward Israel and her decisions as Secretary of State’. […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] secret service to prevent America from ‘falling into the hands of capitalist robber barons.’ Clearly that did not altogether succeed; and it is doubtful whether either the FBI or MI5 could be tasked with a similar duty today. (The last I heard on this from a senior intelligence officer – ‘Chatham House rules’ prevent […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] coin the word. The NSA is the ‘National Stasi Agency’, another nice joke but not really justified: the Stasi were the secret police, more akin to the FBI; the NSA is just a surveillance agency. The following paragraphs are just some of the many I noted and may give a sense of Roberts’ writing […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
[PDF file]: […] makes them money, their dream factories will make that, too. Just as there was in the 1970s, in the wake of Watergate and the subsequent revelations of FBI and CIA covert operations, there is a little bit of liberal dissidence in mainstream American movies, mostly at the low budget end, which the author discusses. […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] making these statements. 1 Answer: Goldwater was very confident.’ It is this Stone quotes, but without attributing it. The KGB story is true and well known.2 An FBI source within the KGB reported that said agency believed Johnson was behind it. ‘Stone ties LBJ to at least seven politically motivated murders prior to the […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] phone the American embassy for some ‘big news’ shortly before JFK was assassinated, was made from there, probably by Osborne. See the present writer’s piece, ‘JFK, the FBI and the Cambridge Phone Call,’ Lobster 30, December 1995. (1987) especially, Mariella’s columns in Paul Raymond’s sleazy mag, Club International, and a couple of demi-monde Soho […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] Scare. In Britain, he argues, ‘MI5’s activity was much more circumspect and rarely resulted in direct forms of censorship’, let alone any ‘explosive arrests’. MI5, unlike the FBI, did not have a Book Review Section, examining content. There were no British Dashiell Hammetts or Howard Fasts imprisoned for a political stand. Nevertheless, despite the […]