Afterword: the search for “Maurice Bishop”

Lobster Issue 10 (1986)

[…] was not in Mexico City on October 10th. The man responsible for CIA surveillance operations in Mexico City was George F. Munroe, a fervent right-winger and ex- FBI agent. He was responsible for the wiring of the Soviet Embassy and Cuban Consulate. According to HSCA information there were also human contacts with two spies […]

How to Fix an Election

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] assumed the tape had been sent by a secret sympathiser in the Bush camp, and wisely handed it to his lawyer. His lawyer took it to the FBI. His suspicion aroused by the Bush campaign’s relaxed attitude to an apparent traitor in its midst, Downey carried out an investigation of his own, and concluded […]

MISC.: Wapping. Gordiefsky. October Surprise. Stone’s JFK. Martin Luther King

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] of the ‘it’s all the fault of the Xs’ variety. Who needs these crazy conspiracy theories? The great federal law and order and intelligence conspiracies like the FBI, CIA and NSA need them to legitimize and empower the term ‘conspiracy theorist’. OK, it’s just a hypothesis, but is there any evidence that the U.S. […]

Web Update

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] technique whereby a message is hidden inside a picture or music file transmitted over the internet) were used in planning the 11 Sept. attacks: ‘According to the FBI, the conspirators had not used encryption or concealment methods.’ More articles by Duncan Campbell on this debate at Telepolis: ‘How the terror trail went unseen’ www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/9751/1.html […]

The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] to the members of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Senate Committee on Government Affairs. (p. 17) As a congressman said on videotape to John DeLorean during an FBI corruption ‘sting’ in the 1980s, ‘Money talks and bullshit walks’. And in this case it’s taxpayers’ money, given to the arms corporations by politicians who then […]

Forty Years of Legal Thuggery

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

[…] of MI6 officers, principally those who had served in Beirut and the Middle East in the 1950s and 60s. ‘Izvestiya‘ (2.10.71) and ‘Koduma‘ (13.10.71), (courtesy of the FBI). A number of officers, mainly wartime, were also named in Philby’s book ‘My Silent War’ and in the various biographies written following his defection. (WYNNE TRIAL) […]

…MI5 goes on forever

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] who its supporters are. You find the potential terrorists by offering them a terrorist organisation to join. (Lee Harvey Oswald was probably doing something similar for the FBI in New Orleans with his one-man Fair Play for Cuba Committee.) Or informants, paid by results, elaborate, expand and exaggerate their activities. (Bits of all of […]

Web Update

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

Here are a few more web sites that may be of interest. Thanks for contributions to David Guyatt, Terry Hanstock, Daniel Brandt, Chris Atton and Tony Hollick. Further contributions and comments are welcome: my e-mail is Politics and government USA DoE Office of Human Radiation Experiments http://www.ohre.doe.gov/ ‘OHRE, established in March 1994, leads the … Read more

Book reviews

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] UN in New York from 1962 to 1977’ (p609). Chuchukin is named as a KGB disinformation officer in Barron’s previous book The KGB (1974) (p212). Surely the FBI had more sense than to recruit a disinformation expert… Just to point out that there are now at least five books out now on Klaus Barbie, […]

Searchlight again

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] been found to be collecting data on hundreds of political groups, both right and left, and trading data with agencies of the U.S. state, such as the FBI. The best summary so far of this story to date — and a list of the groups being spied on — is to be found in […]

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