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[…] their conspiracy to oust him from power. He saw no reason to play their game or deal with their prying inspectors.’ But Saddam Hussein was correct: the CIA did indeed know they had no WMDs. I noted in Lobster 86 that two former CIA analysts had recently been talking ‘How Iraq Happened:Washington’s Fateful Misreading […]

The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil by Charlotte Dennett

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a plane crash – flight 3804 – in 1947 in Ethiopia. He was working for the Central Intelligence Group – which was about to be renamed the CIA – and was America’s leading undercover officer in the Middle East. The author, a journalist, describes decades of work researching her father’s activities, trying to get […]

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[…] me but not, of course, new to the serious JFK buffs. Shelley, the TSBD and Glaze are the subject of a long essay by William Weston, ‘The CIA and the Texas School Book Depository’ at or . See also . 4 5 See, for example, . or 6 3 organisation, who blew the whistle […]

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[…] me but not, of course, new to the serious JFK buffs. Shelley, the TSBD and Glaze are the subject of a long essay by William Weston, ‘The CIA and the Texas School Book Depository’ at or . See also . 4 5 See, for example, . or 6 3 organisation, who blew the whistle […]

Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ on Dealey Plaza

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a pilot, a painter, an accountant for the Mob, a fraudster, a supplier and modifier of weapons and a maker of documents for the Mob and the CIA, Chauncey Holt said in 1991: ‘Dallas that day was flooded with all kinds of people who ended up there for some reason. It’s always been my […]

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[…] goes to striking lengths to exculpate Russia from criticism. After the attempted murder of Alexei Navalny by the Russian state, it had an article headlined ‘Navalny poisoning: CIA, MI6, “discredited” state-funded Bellingcat play key role in accusing Russia’.17 Getting Corbyn The campaign to destroy Jeremy Corbyn has been described in this journal in some […]

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[…] the assault on Gaza.4 It has been followed by a detailed analysis of the BBC staffer at the centre of this, ‘BBC Middle East Editor Collaborated With CIA, Mossad’.5 Big stuff. Dick Russell you may know from his JFK research.6 He has a new Substack site on which there is a very odd – […]

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[…] the assault on Gaza.4 It has been followed by a detailed analysis of the BBC staffer at the centre of this, ‘BBC Middle East Editor Collaborated With CIA, Mossad’.5 Big stuff. Dick Russell you may know from his JFK research.6 He has a new Substack site on which there is a very odd – […]

Disclosure and deceit: Secrecy as the manipulation of history, not its concealment

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] hostilities were formally ended. What then was the significance of the ‘leak’? The documents generally point to the failures of the military, omitting the role of the CIA almost entirely. Today it is still largely unknown that Ellsberg was working with the CIA in counter-insurgency programs in Vietnam. Did the Pentagon Papers thus serve […]

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[…] in his 2015 article for ConsortiumNews, ‘The Mess that Nuland Made’22, which is as good an introduction to the Ukraine events as any. Dallas again Marc Caputo’s ‘CIA admits shadowy officer monitored Oswald before JFK assassination, new records reveal’23 discusses the recent release of documents showing that CIA officer George Joannides was involved with […]

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