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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] with Jewish Russian emigrés in the 1950s and his role in getting nuclear technology to Israel. The second essay goes into detail about Angleton’s relationship with the FBI and his domestic surveillance operations in the US leading up the assassination of Kennedy. Klarenberg reminds us that: Angleton’s CIA counterintelligence staff ordered Lee Harvey Oswald’s […]

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 […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[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 […]

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. […]

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)

[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 […]

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 […]

View from Bridge 86 copy

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[…] 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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