Oh, conspiracy!

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[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)

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] the crimes of the CIA, and issuing 50 51 See, for example, or 52 53 54 or 55 or 56 19 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 […]

Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] Vice President of Rapid 7 Inc; Milan Patel, formerly of K2 Intelligence, the FBI’s Cyber Division, the White House National Security Council Joint Requirements Team and the FBI SWAT Team; Austin Berglas, formerly in the FBI and K2 Intelligence; Chris White, of Booz Allen, and Vincent D’Agostino, former Managing Director of K2 Intelligence and […]

Unredacted: Russia, Trump and the Fight for Democracy by Christopher Steele

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] high-profile, feel-good sectors of the economy’. (p. 111) This can perhaps be considered as choir boy activity. And moving on from this, Orbis began working for the FBI, first with regard to FIFA corruption, but soon investigating many other matters, including Russian interference in European elections. What was to make Steele headline news, however, […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

Lobster Issue

[…] 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)

[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)

[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 […]

View from Bridge 86 copy

Lobster Issue

[…] been reduced to a tiny rump. Why they did not do so is not known. My guess would be that they were told not to by the FBI, which was letting Soviet money into the CPUSA. In the early 1970s, what we might call anxious patriots believed the conspiracy theory of ‘the enemy within’. […]

The Trump threat or the rule of the Don

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] open ballot-rigging, with Texas leading the way. This is unlikely to be enough and the regime is getting ready to unleash targeted repression against its enemies. The FBI raids on John Bolton’s home and office are a clear warning to his enemies that he is coming for them. Not only has ICE been dramatically […]

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