The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg

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[PDF file]: […] knew he might face life imprisonment for doing so. A bizarre series of events, recounted in The Doomsday Machine, put them beyond the reach of both the FBI and the author. There is much in Ellsberg’s book that is bizarre, if not amusing, as he recounts what he learned about the workings of the […]

Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware

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[PDF file]: […] (and their foreign equivalents) don’t take an interest in the malware products of private companies, especially those with connections to Unit 8200. It was reported that the FBI had bought Pegasus in 2019 but that they hadn’t chosen to use it.3 The same report said that the US government had blacklisted NSO for fear […]

Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ on Dealey Plaza

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[PDF file]: […] arrested ‘right after President Kennedy was shot’.9 To complicate things further, a Dallas police officer David Harkness, involved in the arrest of the hoboes, interviewed by the FBI in 1992, said: ‘On the day of the assassination there were several individuals removed from the train other than the three individuals previously identified’.1 0 Did […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] ‘Phone records and surveillance videos of their gated community showed frequent contact with the hijackers, including lead hijacker Muhammad Atta’. The liberal website Propublica noted last year: 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.30 Both men […]

Undercover killers at the BBC

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[PDF file]: […] into the hands of professional criminals in Manchester has exposed the danger of Westminster government schemes that were pioneered by Margaret Thatcher – to create a ‘British FBI’ for fighting domestic crime by 3 4 ‘Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair’, Lobster 34 (Winter 1998). 2 using redundant Cold War […]

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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 […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] 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, […]

Powers, Angleton, Morley and Dallas

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] networks in play here, including the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), whose ‘Defector File’ has been illegally kept out of the JFK Collection. Then there are the FBI, ASCI, and Air Force Intelligence. Many said Frank Sturgis was CIA, but the assassination files reveal he was actually run by Air Force Intelligence out of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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