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 […]

Lobster 11

Lobster Issue

[…] 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” – […]

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 […]

The miners and the secret state

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[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 Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] to underestimate their enemies. The USA secret service learned quickly, after a sluggish beginning, especially its signals interception, but was not as good as it boasted (the FBI claimed to have invented and run the ‘double-cross’ system, which I always understood was a British achievement – insofar as it didn’t go back to Biblical […]

Phil Shenon – a cruel and shocking twist

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] encouraged him kill Kennedy. Following the Kennedy assassination, and even before the end of 1963, the party Oswald ostensibly attended had come to the attention of the FBI agent in Mexico City who had interviewed the participants and discounted the affair. Sylvia Duran’s cousin was the Mexican poet and writer Elena Garro de Paz. […]

Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy From Truman to Trump by Jonathan Marshall

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] House and journalist Jack Anderson, who was reporting on Watergate. ‘Meanwhile, others in the White House sought simply to discredit Anderson. They called in investigators from the FBI, the IRS, and even a high-powered private eye service, which at the same time was investigating Maheu on behalf of the Hughes organization. The CIA’s Office […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] shot NO basilar views (from underneath – the underside of the brain), yet half of the Archives brain photos ARE basilar views. But it gets worse. Former FBI agent Francis O’Neill (who was at the JFK autopsy) testified during his 1997 ARRB deposition that more than one half of JFK’s brain was missing when […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] 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 18 […]

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