The View from the Bridge

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[…] him I got a call from an American writer I know called Jim Hougan. Hougan had been chatting to a friend, who had a contact in the FBI, and somehow this little magazine produced in Hull, England, came up. Don’t worry about Lobster, was the message, Lobster has been penetrated. That seemed absolutely hilarious […]

The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ by Roger Stone with Mike Colapietro

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] making these statements. 1 Answer: Goldwater was very confident.’ It is this Stone quotes, but without attributing it. The KGB story is true and well known.2 An FBI source within the KGB reported that said agency believed Johnson was behind it. ‘Stone ties LBJ to at least seven politically motivated murders prior to the […]

The strange loves of Mariella

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] phone the American embassy for some ‘big news’ shortly before JFK was assassinated, was made from there, probably by Osborne. See the present writer’s piece, ‘JFK, the FBI and the Cambridge Phone Call,’ Lobster 30, December 1995. (1987) especially, Mariella’s columns in Paul Raymond’s sleazy mag, Club International, and a couple of demi-monde Soho […]

British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Scare. In Britain, he argues, ‘MI5’s activity was much more circumspect and rarely resulted in direct forms of censorship’, let alone any ‘explosive arrests’. MI5, unlike the FBI, did not have a Book Review Section, examining content. There were no British Dashiell Hammetts or Howard Fasts imprisoned for a political stand. Nevertheless, despite the […]

South of the border (occasional snippets from)

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] health issues’. Writing for Consortium News, Asa Winstanley has made the analogy that the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) should be seen as the equivalent of America’s Cointelpro/ FBI scandal of the 1970s.16 He’s certainly right that the UK media attention should be bigger than it is: it should, in fact, be bigger than the […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] Azov Battalion has cultivated a relationship with members of the Atomwaffen Division150 as well as with U.S.–based militants from the Rise Above Movement, or RAM, which the FBI has labelled a ‘white supremacy extremist group’ based in Southern California. A week later, a Homeland Security subcommittee was told:. Azov reportedly has connections to the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] are still being suppressed on the Democratic side of American politics. In the LBJ library’s oral history section there is an interview with Cartha Deloach, a senior FBI man of the period, who was that agency’s liaison with President Johnson, in which this exchange takes place. Question: ‘There was evidence, though, that Anna Chennault […]

Everybody Knows: Corruption in America by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] got an eighteen month sentence ‘for soliciting, molesting, and raping underage girls the result of a strange and disturbing plea deal’. It is worth remembering that the FBI had testimony from 36 victims. The US Attorney for South Florida at that time, Alexander Acosta, later claimed that he had been told that ‘Epstein “belonged […]

The secret library of Georges Armoulian by Anthony Frewin

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] book. Anthony Frewin is a regular Lobster contributor, novelist and screenwriter, and the book’s intentions are stated when Frewin’s preface is headed by a quotation allegedly from FBI taps on the phone of Chicago mobster Sam Giancana, in which he is discussing the new novel by Joan Didion. ‘Preface? What’s with these fucking prefaces? […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] Azov Battalion has cultivated a relationship with members of the Atomwaffen Division150 as well as with U.S.–based militants from the Rise Above Movement, or RAM, which the FBI has labelled a ‘white supremacy extremist group’ based in Southern California. A week later, a Homeland Security subcommittee was told:. Azov reportedly has connections to the […]

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