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 […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

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[PDF file]: […] makes them money, their dream factories will make that, too. Just as there was in the 1970s, in the wake of Watergate and the subsequent revelations of FBI and CIA covert operations, there is a little bit of liberal dissidence in mainstream American movies, mostly at the low budget end, which the author discusses. […]

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 […]

Running Rings

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[PDF file]: […] likely to go rogue than state employees? And does GCHQ vet all recruits, including American employees of Amazon Web Services? Presumably they may liaise with the CIA/ FBI et al to check people out. That activity would be just the kind of thing already privatised on the other side of the pond. Some have […]

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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[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, […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] 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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