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[…] 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 […]

South of the border (occasional snippets from)

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] health issues’. Writing for Consortium News, Asa Winstanley has made the analogy that the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) should be seen as the equivalent of America’s Cointelpro/ FBI scandal of the 1970s.16 He’s certainly right that the UK media attention should be bigger than it is: it should, in fact, be bigger than the […]

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, […]

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 […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] 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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[…] legacy. The files, totaling over 230,000 pages, largely reinforce the official conclusion that James Earl Ray acted alone in King’s assassination, though they also detail the extensive FBI surveillance and harassment of King. ‘Largely reinforce’? I suspect ‘totally reinforce’ would be more accurate. (This, presumably, is this merely a summary of comment on what […]

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