Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] has earlier argued for a secret Kennedy venture known as CDay that planned for a coup in Cuba to be carried out by the Pentagon and the CIA which would be synced with the assassination of Castro by an undercover operator on the island. The Soviets would be blamed, the populace would rise up, […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] actions, he said, were also on behalf of the Z Society, a college group at the University of Virginia that Pyongyang alleges is a front for the CIA.’ 3 There appear to be at least sixteen fraternities/sororities at the University of Virginia, and some of them do have odd histories.4 It should be noted […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] characters and events with no idea of which is which. For instance: Liggett’s youthful participation in David Ferrie’s Civil Air Patrol outfit and his recruitment by the CIA therefrom. This is plainly of key importance to understanding Liggett’s life but I have no idea whether it’s real or pretend. Mr Fleming’s characters are all […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: The Lone Star Speaks Untold Texas Stories about the JFK Assassination Sara Peterson and K. W. Zachry Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 2020, $28.95 www.bancroftpress.com Robin Ramsay This is a very interesting and big book (over 500 pages if you include the end notes).1 The authors’ choice of format has determined the book’s shape. Each chapter focuses […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] (it’s not actually bulky, but a slim volume) consists of an exploration of the claim of Lt. Col. Dan Marvin that he was ‘sounded out’ by a CIA officer as Pitzer’s assassin. Lt. Col. Marvin didn’t go through with it, but clearly even a failed attempt to recruit a murderer counts as evidence connected […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] rest of these stories and lots of its funding may simply have been stolen. En route the authors wander into all manner of interesting byways, including the CIA trials in the early 1950s and the Frank Olsen case; and David Kelly and other dead microbiologists. (Just google ‘dead microbiologists’ to get a flavour.) This […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] LSD would have when introduced into the social and political counter-culture; specifically if it would disable activities that might otherwise threaten the state. We know that the CIA and the UK intelligence services did research of this type through the 50s and 60s (often on ‘unwitting subjects’)8 so Hollingshead’s antics are not out of […]