lob86View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 Clandestine Caucus: a minor update

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[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 […]

View from Bridge copo

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 11 See or . 12 or 13 or 14 Clarke had speculated along these lines five years earlier. See or . 10 House […]

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” – […]

lob84-view from the bridge (sept 84)

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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 […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

Lobster Issue

[…] spy ring. As president, JFK appointed Michael Straight to head a new arts commission. But when Straight found his background was to be closely vetted by the FBI, he confessed that there was an attempt to recruit him into the Cambridge spy ring while he was a student there. Besides Philby, Burgess and Maclean, […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] makes them money, their dream factories will make that, too. Just as there was in the 1970s, in the wake of Watergate and the subsequent revelations of FBI and CIA covert operations, there is a little bit of liberal dissidence in mainstream American movies, mostly at the low budget end, which the author discusses. […]

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