LBJ: the mastermind of JFK’s assassination by Phillip F. Nelson

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[…] Lobster 61 spelling and lack of grammatical knowledge. Mackenzie’s version of the events in Dallas can be summarised thus: everybody was involved – mob, military, anti-Castro Cubans, FBI, Oswald and Ruby, LBJ, ‘Mac’ Wallace….but not, apparently, the CIA. The CIA are almost entirely missing from this story. It’s the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) Mackenzie […]

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[…] Service. In an unrelated Office of Security file on Robert Maheu there is a clipping which features Bill Harvey and Hal Swenson (both CIA retirees and former FBI agents)…..they are described as working for This site also carries substantial recent essays on the British Army’s Frank Kitson (who died recently) and Kincora. 4 This […]

JFK’s assassination: a big new book and a strange memoir

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] about his spelling and lack of grammatical knowledge. Mackenzie’s version of the events in Dallas can be summarised thus: everybody was involved – mob, military, anti-Castro Cubans, FBI, Oswald and Ruby, LBJ, ‘Mac’ Wallace….but not, apparently, the CIA. The CIA are almost entirely missing from this story. It’s the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) Mackenzie […]

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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 […]

View from the Bridge 89

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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 […]

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. […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[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 […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££

[PDF file]: […] implemented. This is challenged in Lobster No 10. 28. Thompson (1980) p. 75.The Monday Club held a conference on “subversion” in 1970. Speakers included Charles Lyon, ex- FBI, Sir Robert Thompson, Ian Greig, Harold Soref and G. K. Young. (Counterspy November 1981) An interesting line-up. Lyons was “London contact for the Maheu agency” – […]

Lobster review: 1992 guide to intelligence periodics

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[…] Lord Rotl1schild in this regard, as seen by tl1e press, and authors Nigel West and Cl1apman Pincher, among others. Also included is a translation, done by the FBI, of Philby’s 1971 interview in Estonia.105 Many articles are heavily footnoted, an element of scholarship Ramsay and Dorril have made an art form that the 102.LOBSTER, […]

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