The View from the Bridge

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[…] 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? Brain waves T hree significant pieces warning us about the […]

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Cielo Drive had become a gathering place for ‘liberal Hollywood’ figures such as Mama Cass, Warren Beatty and Jane Fonda – all of whom were reportedly under FBI surveillance. Abigail Folger, one of the Cielo victims, was an outspoken civil rights activist. Hoover’s memo says, ‘An anonymous letter is being prepared for Bureau approval […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] by President Johnson between 8 and 9 pm on the day of the assassination.82 As Phase Two spread across Washington the American state ditched Phase One. The FBI did not want Phase One because it was supposed to be able to detect and prevent domestic ‘communist conspiracies’ and here was one apparently involving someone […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Union. Copies of the book can be ordered online or downloaded free as a pdf file at Sibel Edmonds speaks Sibel Edmonds was a translator for the FBI and found herself listening to FBI wiretap recordings of a Turkish government operation to buy US politicians, diplomats and – ultimately – nuclear technology. She was […]

2011: a Reagan odyssey

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of corporate interests, mainly the General Electric trust. He became rich from speculation when real estate was being expropriated from Japanese-Americans in California and influential as an FBI informer. All told it was an excellent record to propel him into the California governor’s mansion as the representative of its most reactionary business elements. However […]

lob86View from Bridge

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[…] 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 House when the agency knew about al-Qaeda terrorists in the United 24 See or . 25 or 26 or 27 Clarke had speculated […]

lob86View from Bridge

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[…] 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 House when the agency knew about al-Qaeda terrorists in the United 24 See or . 25 or 26 or 27 Clarke had speculated […]

The miners and the secret state

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the money was held very closely within the Party. Perhaps through Morris Childs, the American Communist Party’s link with the Soviets, their bagman, who was an FBI agent. On Childs see, for example a summary of the major book on this subject at and see also < www.theatlantic.com/doc/200207/ garrow>, an essay by David […]

The Clandestine Caucus: a minor update

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[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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