The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] said, mystification — to be overcome is the apparent contradiction between America’s proclaimed principles and the intensity of its covert operations practices. Philip Agee once called the CIA, ‘capitalism’s invisible army’. He recalled that one of his first tasks as a junior CIA officer had been to conduct background checks on Venezuelan applicants for […]

View from the bridge

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[…] nothing-burger . . .’ . . . was Jefferson Morley’s initial reaction to the JFK documents recently declassified.18 Morley was referring to the revelation that head of CIA counterintelligence (CI), James Angleton, began collecting reports on Oswald in 1959. A week or so later Morley wrote: ‘The new JFK files yield clear and convincing […]

View from the bridge

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[…] nothing-burger . . .’ . . . was Jefferson Morley’s initial reaction to the JFK documents recently declassified.1 Morley was referring to the revelation that head of CIA counterintelligence (CI), James Angleton, began collecting reports on Oswald in 1959. A week or so later Morley wrote: ‘The new JFK files yield clear and convincing […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] search app ChatGPT. I asked it ‘Who was Chauncey Holt?’ And in about 5 seconds it produced this: Chauncey Marvin Holt was an American criminal and self-proclaimed CIA contract agent who claimed to have been involved in several highprofile events in U.S. history, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Holt made these […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] nearly £1 million per year on anti-Soviet and anti-Communist propaganda.5 The next year some of the personnel of another covert propaganda operation, this one run by the CIA, Forum World Features (FWF), began setting up a third organisation, the Institute for the Study of Conflict (ISC). Several members of the Information Research Department then […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] in various capacities, including Assistant Musical Director and Conductor of the BBC Northern Ireland Symphony Orchestra (1933-38). 7 See for example . 8 A declassified 1967 internal CIA memo on the Garrison case said: ‘Clay Shaw was an innocuous DCS contact between 1948 and 1956’. (At ). Some of Garrison’s defenders think there is […]

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[…] documented writing which became my exemplar. In the CovertAction piece Kuzmarov and Alexis Baden-Mayer write: She was also way ahead of her time in recognizing the hidden CIA involvement in Watergate, the Jonestown massacre, Charles Manson killings, Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), and murder of John Lennon among other “deep-state” crimes. Ah, a footnote! Evidence […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] documented writing which became my exemplar. In the CovertAction piece Kuzmarov and Alexis Baden-Mayer write: She was also way ahead of her time in recognizing the hidden CIA involvement in Watergate, the Jonestown massacre, Charles Manson killings, Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), and murder of John Lennon among other “deep-state” crimes. Ah, a footnote! Evidence […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] search app ChatGPT. I asked it ‘Who was Chauncey Holt?’ And in about 5 seconds it produced this: Chauncey Marvin Holt was an American criminal and self-proclaimed CIA contract agent who claimed to have been involved in several highprofile events in U.S. history, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Holt made these […]

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[…] hadn’t come from a Russian computer hack, because he collected it for Wikileaks from an employee of the DNC.5 It was a leak not a hack.6 Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern has been saying a similar thing. McGovern’s had several conversations with senior people at the NSA. They assured him that, had the Russians […]

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