[…] alone, there were nearly 3,000 registered federal lobbyists working in the financial sector.’(14) Fraud A regulator turned academic, William K. Black, wrote in February on how the FBI had begun warning about an epidemic of mortgage fraud by the sellers of mortgages in 2004 but had been ignored. By then the US financial sector […]
[…] on the far right’; that one of its founders, the American Harold Covington, ‘had known links to the intelligence services’ and was a ‘long-time asset of the FBI’; and that its creation by MI5 was ‘understandable and possibly justifiable at the time’. I kid you not: Searchlight, April 1995, p. 2. They appear to […]
[…] reviews of this book there are many raves; but continue on down through the second page and you come to a very destructive review by a former FBI agent, Delbert Hahn, who was interviewed by Hopsicker. Before buying this read that. Notes If the Zelig reference escapes you try On getaway styles, I prefer […]
[…] (no 16) in February. The usual unclassifiable mixture: some new research on the bombing of Earth First’s Judi Bari; Kenn Thomas on attempts to get Timothy Leary’s FBI file via the FOIA; a disinformation operation by South African intelligence (the non-existent FAPLA); a memoir of radical politics in the mid-West of the 1930s; interview […]
[PDF file]: […] was also ignorant of Baird’s many organized crime connections, a failing that later hearings and news accounts never corrected. Today, with the benefit of facts gleaned from FBI files, subsequent Congressional investigations, and journalistic investigations of organized crime, it becomes clearer that Baird was engaged in profitable insider transactions with a long-lasting and densely […]
[PDF file]: […] surveys of houses of prostitution’ as a prelude to enforcing the ‘White Slave Traffic Act,’ also known as the Mann Act.1 5 As one historian of the FBI has observed: ‘by exaggerating the danger of organized vice, portraying it as a real menace to the American society, and by broadly interpreting the law, the […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘smoking gun’, was a taped Oval Office conversation in which Nixon ordered his aides to get the CIA to help quash the Watergate investigation by telling the FBI that it was intruding on a sensitive intelligence operation. To enlist the CIA’s cooperation, Nixon proposed blackmailing the Agency by warning that the FBI probe could […]
[PDF file]: […] 978-1-936296-86-6 Author Don Adams was already investigating the JFK assassination before it had even happened. On 13 November 1963 he was called at his home by an FBI superior and told to track down and interview one Joseph Milteer of Quitman, Georgia. Milteer was a prominent white supremacist and Klansman, whose activities and influence […]
[PDF file]: JFK’s assassination: two stories about fingerprints Garrick Alder Mac Wallace: The FBI print examination Further to my essay ‘Mac Wallace and the finger of guilt’ (Lobster 68), I submitted an FOI request to the US Department of Justice to obtain documents involved in the print examination that resulted in the FBI’s 1999 finding of […]
[PDF file]: […] That is five years before Dr King was murdered, and while President Kennedy and his brother Robert were still in office. October 15, 1963 On this date, FBI Intelligence Operations chief William C Sullivan disseminated a memo. In it, he announced the completion and imminent circulation of a dossier entitled ‘Communism and the Negro […]
