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 […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE
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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. […]

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, […]

We Were Lied to About 9/11: The Interviews by Jon Gold

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[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. […]

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[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 […]

Deep Kiss: How the Washington Post missed the biggest Watergate story of all

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[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 […]

SUCCESS: The CIA in Guatemala, 1954

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Immerman, ‘Guatemala as Cold War History’, Political Science Quarterly, 95:4 (Winter, 1980-1981) p. 635. 10 Intelligence gathering in Guatemala at this time was the responsibility of the FBI. 11 Richard Patterson, ‘Draft of Speech to Rotary Club,’ 24 March 1950, Patterson Papers, box five, Truman Library (Missouri) cited in Stephen E. Ambrose (see note […]

Race to Revolution: The United States and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow by Gerald Horne

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[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, […]

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