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[…] Jim DiEugenio commented in his piece on Epstein’s death:14 With the Church Committee exposing the crimes of the CIA, and issuing a report showing how poorly the FBI had investigated the case, there was movement to reopen the Kennedy case. Clearly an establishment lion like the Reader’s Digest would want to get a jump […]

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[…] Jim DiEugenio commented in his piece on Epstein’s death:14 With the Church Committee exposing the crimes of the CIA, and issuing a report showing how poorly the FBI had investigated the case, there was movement to reopen the Kennedy case. Clearly an establishment lion like the Reader’s Digest would want to get a jump […]

Oh, conspiracy!

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] an existing state of affairs. The intention may simply be not to let people know what has happened i.e. to keep the secret a secret. When the FBI and CIA destroyed their files on Lee Harvey Oswald after the Kennedy assassination, it counted as evidence of a conspiracy but not evidence that there was […]

Lee Harvey Oswald’s address book: a follow-up note

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to article by him entitled ‘Oswald and the Nazis’ in the March 1996 issue, a researcher named J. P. (Jerry) Shinley sent him a document from the FBI (FBI 105-70374-Not Recorded) that was a clipping of Newberry’s The Worker story. Rose writes that ‘every element of Oswald’s entry in his notebook could have been […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] CIA advisors were developing what would be called the Phoenix Program in Vietnam — an improvement and systematic organisation of the methods used in Korea — the FBI, together with Army Intelligence and local police forces were waging a counterinsurgency equivalent against Blacks and Indians in the US. Even liberal youth were targeted, e.g. […]

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[…] unclear if it was a microwave beam or a sonic beam which was being used. One little detail in the piece tells us it is microwaves. A FBI agent who was attacked reports that the beam caused her phone’s battery to expand and break the phone’s casing. I know nothing of the physics involved […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] believing that he still possessed capabilities for mass killing. Saddam’s best-hidden secret was his (at least temporary) weakness.38 The ‘bluff’ story seems to have originated in the FBI, whose agent George Piro (an Arabic-speaking Lebanese American) interrogated Saddam after his capture.39 The Daily Mail reported that during the interrogation Piro came to understand that […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

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[…] texts, maybe. unit established in the White House ostensibly to investigate and prevent leaks of information: anything goes. There was a pool of ex-CIA, ex-military and ex- FBI people in Washington looking to supplement their pensions. The Nixon team didn’t know much about this world and picked people on the say-so of others. Thus […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman was sentenced to a minimum term of 30 years for plotting to kill British Prime Minister, Theresa May. Initially, ‘Rahman made contact with an FBI agent posing as an IS official online, who introduced him to an MI5 role-player.’16 The jury took thirteen hours to reach their decision and, after he […]

Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] maybe. 1 unit established in the White House ostensibly to investigate and prevent leaks of information: anything goes. There was a pool of ex-CIA, ex-military and ex- FBI people in Washington looking to supplement their pensions. The Nixon team didn’t know much about this world and picked people on the say-so of others. Thus […]

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