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[…] their gated community showed frequent contact with the hijackers, including lead hijacker Muhammad Atta’. The liberal website Propublica noted last year: 8 9 or 10 11 4 FBI agents identified Bayoumi as having helped the two young Saudis rent an apartment, set up a bank account and take care of other needs.12 Both men […]

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong

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[PDF file]: […] ‘the recordings over to MI6, which circulated them around the Foreign Office and Department for International Development’. In the USA, the recordings were handed over to the FBI. As she points out: ‘Whatever these Western government ministers might say publicly, they could not claim to be unaware of Kagame’s tactics’. Where they were unsuccessful […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] while mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence.’ 6 7 In other words, to quote one of the congressmen filmed by the FBI during the so-called Abscam affair, in American politics ‘Money talks and bullshit walks’.6 8 Rarely mentioned these days in the discussions of the new global elite, […]

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[…] officer carrying the rifle from the depository; photographs taken as the rifle was carried through the halls of Dallas Police Department; and photographs taken later by the FBI and Dallas Police Department. (79) The examination by committee photographic consultants determined that all photographs were of the same rifle. Both a study of proportions and […]

Deep Kiss: How the Washington Post missed the biggest Watergate story of all

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[PDF file]: […] and it is unclear why it was filed alongside Johnson compiled a dossier on what he knew of Nixon’s treason, including documents gleaned from the CIA and FBI detailing surveillance of Nixon’s go-betweens. Johnson entrusted his so-called ‘X-Envelope’ to Walt Rostow, his National Security Advisor. On 26 June 1973, with Johnson now dead, Rostow […]

Murder in Cairo

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[PDF file]: […] Act, eight years after the 1959 report by Sir John Wolfenden, father of the blackmailed journalist, the threat of prison loomed. I can imagine that the occasional FBI reports on both Silberman Silberman’s academic ability appears under-estimated by Gillman and Midolo, judging by a posthumous article in Cahiers d’études africaines at . 14 15 […]

Race to Revolution: The United States and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow by Gerald Horne

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] sought and readily given by the both corporate sectors in combatting Cuba’s revolution. One of the executive functions of the secret police and ‘invisible armies’ (CIA, DEA, FBI, et al.) is to manage relations between the state and these two competing and yet interlocking corporate blocks. 14 Barack Obama, address of 17 December 2014, […]

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[…] officer carrying the rifle from the depository; photographs taken as the rifle was carried through the halls of Dallas Police Department; and photographs taken later by the FBI and Dallas Police Department. (79) The examination by committee photographic consultants determined that all photographs were of the same rifle. Both a study of proportions and […]

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[…] seems to have been part of his hunt for KGB penetration agents in the CIA. John Newman has argued recently that Oswald These paras are from declassified FBI documents reproduced at . 16 ‘Crusader 80’ was the exercise in which Smith and his Territorial Army colleagues played a part. On ‘Crusader 80’ see or […]

A bullet to the head for the James Files JFK ‘confession’

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[PDF file]: […] This article shows how the hoax took shape, and illuminates the overlooked proof that the story is a lie.
 
 Enter West and Vernon In 1978, Chicago FBI Agent Zach Shelton was put to work investigating an inter-state hijacking gang, of which Files was the ringleader. The hijackers were unsophisticated, simply overpowering lorry drivers […]

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