The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] 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’. […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] report from her office because she stashed it in her tights.2 Amusing as this old-skool method of smuggling might be, I discovered something even funnier in the FBI transcript of their first encounter with Ms Winner. When a phalanx of FBI agents arrived at Ms Winner’s house to execute a search warrant, they asked […]

Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy by Tim Milne

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] to counter Soviet operations against the UK. From 1949 to 1951 he was posted to Washington, working as the SIS liaison officer with the CIA and the FBI. He appeared to be destined for a top job in SIS, but was forced to resign in the wake of the Burgess and Maclean defections to […]

View from

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[…] and don’t dismiss UFOs. Something major is going on there. Assange and O’Hagan I was sent this paragraph recently: In June 2023, The Age reported that the FBI is seeking to gather new 18 I asked Google for ‘City of London contribution to UK GDP’ and it responded: The City of London (the financial […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] I noticed in a review of Seth Rosenfeld’s Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power7 that Aoki had been working for the FBI at the time. What would the American left have looked like without the federal government’s involvement? 5 6 7 4 radiation emitted by mobile phones, their […]

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