Letter from America. Rand Corporation. Kennedys. Pentagon. Oklahoma. Garrisonia

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] one of wry disbelief, normally ending with a dismissive comment from the cops. But such tales crop up with increasing regularity, as Christian Identity types challenge the FBI to raid their compounds and a group calling itself ‘Sons of the Gestapo’ derails an Amtrak passenger train…. Garrisonia The same day that the US papers […]

Correspondence

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] inch diameter 4 power scope. Technical ignorance allows a lot of bullshit to float by. Hinkley’s ‘explosive bullets’ are another example. I happen to know that had he been using what the FBI claimed, no one would have even gone to the hospital. Maximum penetration would have been less than a half inch of flesh.”

Did the CIA sink a ship-load of Leyland buses in the Thames?

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] distinction as an Army officer and as a high-ranking CIA official in times of enormous world tension’. Breuer cited Ted Shackley and W, Raymond Wannall of the FBI as two of his sources and wrote: ‘One of JM WAVE’s most notable successes was in convincing a ball-bearing manufacturer in Frankfurt, West Germany, to make […]

Some Notes on Occult Irrationalism and the Kennedy Assassination

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] 1967), one finds a review of a pro-Warren Commission book, The Scavengers: Critics and the Warren Report, by Richard Warren Lewis and Lawrence Schiller. The reviewer, former FBI agent and Ramparts contributor, William Turner, is particularly annoyed (p. 163) over the way Lewis and Schiller take a cheap shot at Sylvia Meagher by pointing […]

The Zapruder Film: Reframing JFK’s Assassination

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] and described, with 60 pages of fully sourced notes and 16 documentary appendices. (The last of the latter, which I had never heard of before, is an FBI damage-control ‘tickler’ (undated) which includes the stark phrase: ‘Basic facts yet contradictions on Oswald in Mexico; photo not him’.) Wrone is brisk to the point of […]

The International Centre of Free Trade Unionists in Exile

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] Justice Department Office of Special Investigations, spent years attempting to locate documents and files relating to alleged Nazi war criminals in the United States, from both the FBI and CIA. In many instances, these and other government agencies did everything possible to stop him, and others, from obtaining relevant information. Loftus commented: ‘Intelligence agencies […]

In Brief

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] leaflets in Florida (actually it was in New Orleans); (b) that Oswald was ‘mentally unbalanced’ (said who?); and (c) that he was in “active contact with low-level FBI agents.” (which almost the whole JFK buff world believes but can’t prove). What is it about Kennedy’s death that encourages people to go into print without […]

The Big C: Further notes on ‘conspiracy’

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] This is pretty staggering — and not a little puzzling — even for somebody writing for the U.S. intelligence community during the Reagan-Bush years. What about the FBI, loyalty programs, Cointelpro, McCarthyism, Operations Chaos, Minaret et al at home; the CIA abroad? A ‘fear of clandestine forces’ on the part of the ruling elites […]

The Anti-CND Groups. Ingrams

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] through a purchase by Spanish Intelligence agency OGS, in the hands of the Guerillas of Christ the King, linked to Albert Spaggliari. In 1980 Gerald Cunningham led FBI agents to a warehouse where he had 1000 M10s hidden. He told the agents his company Weapons International Engineering and Research, had bought the weapons from […]

Feedback

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] year by Revolutionary History, is illuminating in this regard. It is clear from these files that in 1930-1 the British had no help at all from the FBI as regards nationalist and communist students and sympathisers from their colonies who were in the States. Indeed it appears that the British set up an independent […]

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