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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[…] revelation buried in yesterday’s Times obit for Fred Emery, their former Washington correspondent. Emery, according to the obit, was told by Bill Ruckelshaus, acting head of the FBI, in 1973 that he ‘could not exclude a criminal proceeding against the president’. The obit says that in this way Emery was handed a ‘sensational scoop’ […]

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[…] revelation buried in yesterday’s Times obit for Fred Emery, their former Washington correspondent. Emery, according to the obit, was told by Bill Ruckelshaus, acting head of the FBI, in 1973 that he ‘could not exclude a criminal proceeding against the president’. The obit says that in this way Emery was handed a ‘sensational scoop’ […]

lob84-view from the bridge (sept 84)

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[…] Secret Service. Bolden was appointed to the job by JFK. Some twenty days before the assassination in Dallas, the US Secret Service received a teletype from the FBI warning them of a plot to assassinate the president in Chicago by members of the far right. Arrests were apparently made but no charges were laid.48 […]

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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[…] legacy. The files, totaling over 230,000 pages, largely reinforce the official conclusion that James Earl Ray acted alone in King’s assassination, though they also detail the extensive FBI surveillance and harassment of King. ‘Largely reinforce’? I suspect ‘totally reinforce’ would be more accurate. (This, presumably, is this merely a summary of comment on what […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Secret Service. Bolden was appointed to the job by JFK. Some twenty days before the assassination in Dallas, the US Secret Service received a teletype from the FBI warning them of a plot to assassinate the president in Chicago by members of the far right. Arrests were apparently made but no charges were laid.20 […]

A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] Commission it so low key and muted that the reader would hardly notice it; but even this criticism is soon deflected to the Commission’s inquiry agents, the FBI and CIA, and centres on what exactly Oswald was doing in Mexico City. Shenon argues that if the investigations there had been done properly evidence would […]

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