NASA, Nazis & JFK: the Torbitt Document and the JFK Assassination

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] response to the French disinformation production, Farewell America, a couple of years before. For ‘Torbitt’ lays the blame not at the CIA’s door, but jointly on the FBI and something called the Defence Industries Security Command. (On the latter I have never seen any evidence that it ever existed; and if anyone has any, […]

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Jim Hougan’s Watergate theory tested in court

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] my ‘alternative theory’ and Len Colodny’s is this: I insist that inasmuch as no bugging devices were found inside the DNC, despite repeated, targeted searches by the FBI of every telephone in the office, no bugs had ever been there to be found. I argue that the bug monitored by James McCord’s employee, Alfred […]

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Was the Director of Central Intelligence a Soviet agent?

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] its domestic enemies. This distinction is enshrined in the charter of the Central Intelligence Agency, which restricts its operations to foreign shores on the assumption that the FBI will ensure domestic tranquility. Secret intelligence agencies have three classic functions: intelligence collection and analysis (spies and scholars); oper-ations (overthrowing foreign governments and the like), and […]

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Getting it right: the security agencies in modern society

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] him I got a call from an American journalist I know called Jim Hougan. Hougan had been chatting to a friend, who had a contact in the FBI and somehow this little magazine produced in Hull, England, came up. Don’t worry about Lobster, was the message, Lobster has been penetrated. That seemed absolutely hilarious […]

Official and Confidential:The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover

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Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] America, but simply that it thought it had paid off and/or blackmailed enough people to ensure immunity from serious investigation. The fact that the Mob had the FBI in its pocket until the sixties and the arrival of the Kennedys, seems to add further weight to the notion that the Mob shot JFK — […]

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America, drugs, corruption and the British national interest

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] prosecution as being from the suitcase containing the bomb was apparently from the lab tests of an identical suitcase. See American fingerprint experts were told by the FBI not to comment on apparent chaos at the Scottish Criminal Records Office for fear it damaged the Lockerbie case.  A piece in The Sunday Herald begins: […]

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Non-lethality: John B. Alexander, the Pentagon’s Penguin

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] For example, during the Gulf War crisis the Department of Defense asked it to use remote viewing to locate Saddam’s Scud missiles sites. Last year (1992) the FBI sought PSI-TECH’s assistance to locate a kidnapped Exxon executive. (23) With Major Richard Groller and Janet Morris as his co-authors, Alexander published The Warrior’s Edge in […]

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Operation Julie revisited: the strange career of Ron Stark, parapolitical alchemist

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] whom we know were Howard Marks – through the maverick Irish ‘republican’ Jim McCann – and Ron Stark. According to Tendler and May’s book on the BEL, FBI reports passed on to the DEA in California and to the British police ‘only showed what Stark was not, not what he actually was’. Inspector Lee’s […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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