The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] may be an exaggeration but perhaps not that much of one, as the recent list of ‘58 admitted false flag attacks’ suggests.30 26 27 In ‘JFK, the FBI and the Cambridge phone call’. There is no mention of the call in Jefferson Morley’s recent biography of James Angleton, The Ghost: The Secret Life of […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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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’. […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] 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 Bishop Reporting (sic). From memory I think the Office of Security had clipped this piece from The Grapevine a small […]

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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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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Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[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. […]

The Clandestine Caucus: a minor update

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] To my knowledge no-one from MI5 has ever explained this decision. It may be that MI5 was told not to expose it by its American counterparts, the FBI. They knew that the CPUSA was being funded by the Soviets because the member who acted as the Party’s bagmen was an FBI informant.6 Had MI5 […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] al-Qaeda and the 9/11 plot. The second question, with which the 9/11 Commission struggled but was unable to answer, is why the CIA failed to tell the FBI and the White 11 See or . 12 or 13 or 14 Clarke had speculated along these lines five years earlier. See or . 10 House […]

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” – […]

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