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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[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 […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[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 […]

Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[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 […]

The G-man and the switchman: Two JFK microstudies by professional investigators

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[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 […]

JFK’s assassination: two stories about fingerprints

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[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 […]

The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[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 […]

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