I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

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 […]

The strange loves of Mariella

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[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 […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] seems to have been part of his hunt for KGB penetration agents in the CIA. John Newman has argued recently that Oswald These paras are from declassified FBI documents reproduced at . 16 ‘Crusader 80’ was the exercise in which Smith and his Territorial Army colleagues played a part. On ‘Crusader 80’ see or […]

British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[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 […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Everybody Knows: Corruption in America by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[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)

[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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] webpage that has a full discussion of how Hayward’s domain was established and funded. See or . 26 These activities were the subject of enquiries by the FBI that were later exhibited in the US government’s JFK assassination archive. See . 27 The Hayward story – moving away from UK manufacturing to off-shore financial […]

Chemtrails: the proof and the purpose

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] using infrared and ultraviolet LIDAR. In 2001, a PowerPoint presentation was given to delegates from the US Air Force 2025 (the ‘owning the weather’ team), DARPA, CIA, FBI, et al., attending a NASA Langley Institute meeting. Relative to chemtrails, the presentation included as the ‘Major Influences 28 US Space Command, ‘Vision for 2020’, February, […]

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