Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)
[…] – in the first Clinton administration, Webster Hubell, an Arkansas friend of the Clintons, mentioned this in his memoir. Hubbell wrote a couple of memos to the FBI and forgot about it. He then lost the job when he was busted for padding his billing hours while a lawyer with the firm which had […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] This ‘act of conscience’ also, albeit accidentally, contributed to the demise of President Richard Nixon, whose felonious minions had allowed CIA officer E. Howard Hunt and erstwhile FBI agent G. Gordon Liddy to burglarize confidential files from Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office, in a slap-happy attempt to discredit the anti-War movement by showing that Ellsberg was […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] of organised crime. Which is to say the FBN was a political loose cannon in both overseas and domestic policy, engaged in continual bureaucratic warfare with the FBI, CIA, and local police forces, repeatedly discovering things that were supposed to stay hidden and trying to arrest ‘the wrong people’. In the introduction Valentine offers […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
[…] very good issue, for in addition to Hayes there is a piece on the CIA’s co-opting of civilian air planes for covert missions, discussion of Oklahoma, an FBI agent provocateur, and an essay by Professor Carrie Foster of the Coalition on Political Assassinations Speakers Bureau, ‘Conspiracy is as American as Apple pie’. Must be […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] as a possible scenario. When the American files are opened to inspection ten or twenty years from now, it won’t be surprising if, together with records of FBI surveillance of NORAID, there are also records of covert meetings between CIA and NORAID ‘representatives’. The actual mechanisms of the British state Considering the deposing […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] he repeats Posner’s claim. Unger also refers to Edward James Epstein’s website, but sadly doesn’t repeat my favourite Bush I conspiracy anecdote – the one about the FBI memo in which ‘Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency’ denounced a Republican (!) political rival, for JFK-assassination-related activities, in 1963. In the end, maybe […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
[…] describes naive Mr Chasey meeting and signing up with the Libyans, going to Libya, meeting Colonel Qadhafi, and then being harassed by the US government; phone-taps, an FBI attempt to entrap him involving a US Congressman, threats, and (illegal) legal actions against him and his firm. Yes folks, this is another in the long […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] ‘Mercenaries in Trouble Spots to be Regulated’, The Independent 31 July 2004, p.18 10 Established under the 1950 Internal Security Act, the SISS worked closely with the FBI to ensure that Communist Party members registered themselves with the Attorney General. It also conducted Senate hearings for 27 years to ensure that the register was […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
[…] armed to the teeth and – it is said – actually planning to fight the Illuminati! Any minute now there will anti-Illuminati terrorism in the USA; the FBI will announce the creation of an Illuminati Task Force. Hitherto this field had been pretty much an exclusively American set of conspiracy theories, but they are […]