LBJ: doubles and disinformation

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] long chats.’ Johnson immediately asked aides to find out who Peck was and in August that year a memo to his secretary Juanita Roberts stated that the FBI had been unable to find anything indicating a family connection between Peck and Johnson. Peck had previously written to Johnson in 1965 and in that letter […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] public law officials and right-wing police departments, which it is claimed have been infiltrated by groups of right-wing extremists. Those, in turn, have been infiltrated by the FBI, who act as provocateurs to or 6 5 entrap and prosecute radicalised extremists.7 As a former Russian dissident, Turchin has a sharp eye for the treatment […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] when the Republicans got wind of this, JFK’s brother (and Attorney General) expelled her (illegally) from the US. Because Rometsch had originally come from East Germany, the FBI suspected she might be a Soviet bloc agent. No evidence of this has every appeared. Rometsch has not been seen or heard of since. My guess […]

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 […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[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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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. *new* Simon says Regular contributor to these columns, Simon Matthews, has a new book out. Looking for a New England, the sequel to his Psychedelic Celluloid, is published on 28 January 2021. Details of […]

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[…] See note 38 above. A political tactic aptly summarised by US President Lyndon Johnson, who remarked that he was keeping J Edgar Hoover as director of the FBI because ‘It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.’ 42 16 militia called Right Sector, led by […]

From an Office Building with a High-powered Rifle by Don Adams

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] JOSEPH MILTEER? From an Office Building with a High-powered Rifle Don Adams Walterville, OR: TrineDay, 2012. x + 226 pps., illustrations, index, $24.95. The First Rule of FBI Club: Protect the Bureau! The codicil to which is: Protecting the Bureau trumps Truth, Justice, and everything else the great Republic holds dear. This was how […]

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