Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[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, […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] the WTC lobby before the plane impacts.3 Two whistle-blowers, Thomas Drake of the National Security Agency (NSA) and Coleen Rowley of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI), offer telling 1 The film documentary 9/11: Press for Truth at details the campaigning work of the victims’ families. 2 3 testimony – as does J. […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] hung for the murder of his cousin in a separate but related case. There is some speculation, not substantiated, that he was eliminated as part of the FBI COINTELPRO programme that throughout the 1960s and ‘70s terminated the careers (and lives) of many black American, civil rights and left activists in the US, Central […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[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, […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
[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 […]