View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

007’s real mission continues

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] 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, […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

South of the border (occasional snippets from)

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[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 […]

Kelly Bond 007 text

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, […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

View from

Lobster Issue

[…] legacy. The files, totaling over 230,000 pages, largely reinforce the official conclusion that James Earl Ray acted alone in King’s assassination, though they also detail the extensive FBI surveillance and harassment of King. ‘Largely reinforce’? I suspect ‘totally reinforce’ would be more accurate. (This, presumably, is this merely a summary of comment on what […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] It was as dangerous as the NKVD material on the mass murder of Polish POWs in the Katyn Forest, or the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg. For the FBI and CIA it would be like records of conspiracies leading up to the assassination of JFK. John Costello, backed by a New York budget, was first […]

Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn From Israel by David Rubin

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] the Islamists, condemning anyone daring to make a stand as ‘a racist, an Islamophobe, a homophobe, or a sexist’. As for Hillary Clinton, he reports that ‘ongoing FBI investigations may or may not reveal’ whether Muslim nations funding the Clinton Foundation ‘influenced her arrogant tone toward Israel and her decisions as Secretary of State’. […]

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