The view from the bridge

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[…] was economic nationalism. So economic nationalism was deemed to be ‘communism’ and thus worthy of attack. Decolonisation in the 1950s and 60 wasn’t about communism (though the CIA and IRD could always be relied upon to fabricate a communist link if one was need): it was about nationalism. It is curious how this has […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] was economic nationalism. So economic nationalism was deemed to be ‘communism’ and thus worthy of attack. Decolonisation in the 1950s and 60s wasn’t about communism (though the CIA and IRD could always be relied upon to fabricate a communist link if one was need): it was about nationalism. It is curious how this has […]

We Were Lied to About 9/11: The Interviews by Jon Gold

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] the victims’ families. 2 3 testimony – as does J. Michael Springmann, a State Department employee in Saudi Arabia who was pressured by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) into giving visas to some of the alleged hijackers. Nafeez Ahmed was one of the first academics to question the Bush administration’s version of 9/11 events […]

Last post for Oswald

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] postal service, in the days before e-mail, the internet and bulk data collection of information. The FBI was operating a constitution-violating domestic mail interception program, and the CIA had its own version called HT/LINGUAL to monitor overseas mail (in which capacity the Agency was already well aware of Lee Oswald’s letters to and from […]

Newsinger on Patel

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[…] blocked the appointment by threatening to resign. As far as he was concerned, Patel was totally unfit and unqualified. Similarly, when Patel was considered for a top CIA job, Gina Haspel, the Director of the Agency, threatened to resign if Trump went ahead. And then once he was appointed to the NSC, Patel had […]

LBJ: the mastermind of JFK’s assassination by Phillip F. Nelson

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[…] of the events in Dallas can be summarised thus: everybody was involved – mob, military, anti-Castro Cubans, FBI, Oswald and Ruby, LBJ, ‘Mac’ Wallace….but not, apparently, the CIA. The CIA are almost entirely missing from this story. It’s the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) Mackenzie writes about frequently. For a JFK buff the oddity of […]

Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] Jordan and/or of Nasser blackmailing the UK drove Eden on. Having reached a secret agreement with France and the UK (24 Codenamed Operation Fat Fucker by the CIA. After his abrupt departure, King Faroukh’s private and extensive collection of pornography was the subject of some asttention. 2 October 1956), Israel attacked Egypt on 28 […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] by Guerber into running the story? Fourthly, Guerber was a respected journalist with well-placed sources. Andrew Rosthorn informs me that A serious book by Frederic Charpier (La CIA en France – 60 ans d’ingérence dans les affaires françaises, Paris, Seuil, 2008) on sixty years of CIA interference in France . . . cites an […]

Running Rings

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] activity would be just the kind of thing already privatised on the other side of the pond. Some have gone so far as to suggest the entire CIA should be privatised.4 One of the few books on the subject of privatised intelligence, Tim Shorrock’s 2008 Spies for Hire, made it very clear that the […]

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