The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] their feet during the talks until after the election. Which they duly did. Chennault’s role became known in the Johnson White House – presumably the NSA or CIA had the conference wired for sound – but Johnson did nothing, said nothing.27 And these events are still being suppressed on the Democratic side of American […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] 2020. Gillman compiled a 1978 internal report for Harold Evans, a tireless and peerless editor who deployed six reporters for six months after the murder, sued the CIA for information in New York1 but had to admit in his 2009 memoir:2 We were plunged into many mysteries in my fourteen years as editor of […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue

[…] 2020. Gillman compiled a 1978 internal report for Harold Evans, a tireless and peerless editor who deployed six reporters for six months after the murder, sued the CIA for information in New York1 but had to admit in his 2009 memoir:2 We were plunged into many mysteries in my fourteen years as editor of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] passing through Dallas on the day of the assassination. (Abrams had passed away in 1987). . . During a 1991 interview, Chauncey Holt claimed to be a CIA contract operative and a counterfeiter. He alleged that he was ordered to Dallas 3 2 to deliver forged Secret Service credentials and was subsequently swept up […]

The EU: A Corporatist Racket: How the European Union was created by global corporatism for global corporatism by David Barnby

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] in Hirsch and Fletcher’s 1971 Who were they travelling with? (Nottingham: Spokesman), which is now on-line at and expanded a little in Weissman, Kelly and Hosenball’s ‘The CIA backs the Common Market’, originally in Time Out in 1975 and reproduced in Philip Agee and Louis Woolf (eds.) Dirty Work: the CIA in Western Europe, […]

The Crimes Of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue

[…] nonetheless legitimate’! Weapons of mass deception Further examples of war crimes discussed in the book include the prepicking in the 1990s of Ahmed Chalabi to head the CIA invented Iraqi National Congress. Along with a mountain of other evidence that the Iraq war was planned years in advance, this amounts to ‘criminal intentions spanning […]

Iraq and intelligence

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] of leaks of offi cial information, anonymous briefings to journalists, and public protest by retired diplomats and intelligence personnel. In the United States, the reluctance of the CIA to produce the required ‘intelligence’ led the neo-conservatives who were leading the push to attack Iraq to create the Office of Special Plans (OSP), a little […]

Gangsterismo: The United States, Cuba and the Mafia: 1933 to 1966 by Jack Colhoun

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] knew their involvement with the US state in these activities gave them a get-out-of-jail-free card. So they went through the motions, only to report back to their CIA handlers, ‘Gee, we failed again.’ Not only did the CIA fail to assassinate Castro, they failed to get reliable information on events and sentiment within Cuba; […]

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[…] (presumably Michael Hanley, some time Director-General of MI5) (Colonel) Maclean (probably ‘Billy’ Maclean7) Admiral Sir Ian Hogg Major Alexander Greenwood Mr Meyer, an American (probably Herb Meyer, CIA officer8) David Hart The threat Remember this is 1978. Sections of the British secret state, the British military and the CIA believed that the recently resigned […]

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