Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2005, 478pps, $29.95. The commonly accepted view is that the Warren Commission was a prisoner of its sources (i.e. the FBI) and that, coupled with a notable lack of general curiosity (‘We’re supposed to closing doors around here, not opening them,’ quoth Wesley J. Liebler), resulted in […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] Oswald know about this? Was he indeed one of the conspirators, but a loose cannon who could be conveniently pushed overboard? Or was he in fact an FBI penetration agent? This suggestion should not be ignored. Threats to Kennedy’s life had been uttered by all kinds of strange groups and it would have been […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] of us have suspected, was no Joe Sixpack who just happened to wander in ‘off the street’ and find himself part of history. DELOACH, Cartha D. Hoover’s FBI: The Inside Story by Hoover’s Trusted Lieutenant. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 1995. 440 pps. Illustrated, bibliography, index. Hoover’s right-hand man offers up his apologia for Hoover […]
Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
[…] interrogated for four hours, going through three different agencies. Finally she was released on bail. At her apartment the next day plain-clothed policemen interviewed her and at FBI headquarters she was shown pictures of many girls and asked if she knew them. It was clear that the FBI wanted Towers. Several charges were to […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] own personal Ernstfall with his typically vaudevillian suicide by cyanide pill, dressed only in his underpants and a pair of jack boots, it frustrated an eight year FBI manhunt for the ‘mystery man’. The impact of his gesture was no doubt not quite what he had intended. His death generated a modicum of local […]
Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] onion, central figures in the drama with lives already draped in concealment, to whom we might properly attribute another layer of deception. Gay gangster, gay businessman, gay FBI boss, gay anti- Castro activist and, perhaps, emerging gay patsy. As Dean Andrews might have said, ‘How d’you like them apples?’ Mr Liebeler. I am advised […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York intellectuals John Rodden Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017
John Rodden is one of the foremost authorities on both George Orwell and the New York intellectuals, most particularly Irving Howe. He is the author and editor of a number of books on Orwell, and […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] Directorships (directors identified): Interests represented by directors: Methods: Objects: National Alliance of Employers and Employed 1916 63 (13) predominantly engineering, banking and railways; many prominent members of FBI propaganda, literature, social meetings, ‘economic education’ class peace and constructive reform Industrial League and Council 1919 78 (22) manufacturing, metallurgy, chemicals, brewing propaganda, formation of works […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
The publication of Frank Kitson’s Low Intensity Operations in 1971 created a storm on the left.(1) An influential British army officer with considerable experience of colonial warfare was advocating that the army prepare for counterinsurgency operations at home. As far as Kitson was concerned there was a serious danger of revolutionary disturbance in Britain in […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] WBAP-TV was at least one local station which shot the press conference. Dallas Secret Service Chief Sorrels included this in a TV inventory he sent to the FBI. This advised that if it were not required the station would wipe the tape and use it again. This they apparently did. See No. 61. Two […]
