The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] are still being suppressed on the Democratic side of American politics. In the LBJ library’s oral history section there is an interview with Cartha Deloach, a senior FBI man of the period, who was that agency’s liaison with President Johnson, in which this exchange takes place. Question: ‘There was evidence, though, that Anna Chennault […]

Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] its empire in the same period.5 It is becoming increasingly clear that MI5 have played a considerable role in fragmenting and frustrating the British Left, and the FBI a similar, albeit bloodier, role in the USA. I suspect we will find that throughout the Commonwealth countries the same thing happened. Little fragments keep cropping […]

The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] knew he might face life imprisonment for doing so. A bizarre series of events, recounted in The Doomsday Machine, put them beyond the reach of both the FBI and the author. There is much in Ellsberg’s book that is bizarre, if not amusing, as he recounts what he learned about the workings of the […]

Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[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 […]

Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] its empire in the same period.5 It is becoming increasingly clear that MI5 have played a considerable role in fragmenting and frustrating the British Left, and the FBI a similar, albeit bloodier, role in the USA. I suspect we will find that throughout the Commonwealth countries the same thing happened. Little fragments keep cropping […]

Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] See note 38 above. A political tactic aptly summarised by US President Lyndon Johnson, who remarked that he was keeping J Edgar Hoover as director of the FBI because ‘It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.’ 42 16 militia called Right Sector, led by […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] See note 38 above. A political tactic aptly summarised by US President Lyndon Johnson, who remarked that he was keeping J Edgar Hoover as director of the FBI because ‘It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.’ 42 16 militia called Right Sector, led by […]

Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ on Dealey Plaza

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[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 […]

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