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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 […]

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[…] a hand in it.25 There are indeed loose Israeli connections to JFK’s demise. Among the big items on that list would be: * James Angleton, head of CIA counter-intelligence, had his people monitoring Oswald’s activities in the US upon his return from the USSR. Why, we don’t know; and whether or not this amounted […]

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[…] nuclear technology, and in particular the role in that enterprise of the CIA’s James Angleton, has been recently told again by the excellent Jefferson Morley in ‘The CIA and Zionism: A Complex History’.3 It might profitably be read in conjunction with another essay on the same website about anti-semitism in the CIA, ‘An Antisemitic […]

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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 […]

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)

[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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[…] 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 – […]

Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ on Dealey Plaza

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[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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[…] 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 […]

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