Kitson, Kincora and counter-insurgency in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] from an account of the wars against the American Indian, suggesting that the use of “pseudo gangs” goes back at least as far as the 1870s. The FBI and the American Legion Contact Program, Athan Theoharis in Political Science Quarterly, Summer 1985 It is worth noting that Kitson’s book appeared after the revised Army […]

Maury Island UFO: the Crisman Conspiracy

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Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] two people who were involved at the beginning of the American UFO saga and who appear in the Kennedy assassination story. The other one is the former FBI agent Guy Bannister, who had a minor role in the Kennedy assassination, running Oswald at one time in some domestic anti-Cuban operations. Fred Lee Crisman has […]

The influence of intelligence services on the British left

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[…] the CPGB. The same thing was happening in the United States. The man who collected the dollars from the Soviets for the American Communist Party was an FBI agent. Like MI5, the FBI let the funding continue. In effect MI5 and the FBI ran the American and British communist parties as honeytraps for their […]

Mark Felt, Jason Blair and ‘Misty Beethoven’

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate. (Never mind that the only bugging device found inside the DNC was characterized as a broken ‘toy’ by Felt’s own FBI – that’s a very different story.) Doesn’t it seem a little odd that Felt should have been so outraged by James McCord’s break-in at the Watergate, […]

Sex and Rockets: the occult world of Jack Parsons

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] had become its leader, establishing with like minded followers a proto-beatnik communal life in a huge rambling mansion. This raised a few eyebrows locally and led to FBI and LAPD enquiries. These concluded that Parsons ran ‘….an organisation dedicated to religious and philosophical speculation, with respectable members such as a Pasadena bank president, doctors, […]

U.S Army Intelligence mind control experimentation

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] with the method applied to enhance their conventional interrogation standards. Although little concern was shown, the question of co-ordination with other agencies such as the CIA and FBI was raised. The final decision was made that the co-ordination with the other agencies would be postponed until after the conclusion of the field tests in […]

The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11

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[…] the time by Colin Powell), the real question is why the task was not entrusted to U.S. troops. In the wake of 9/11, Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI translator, has claimed to possess information linking the American 9/11, and much else, to massive drug-trafficking which has corrupted high level U.S. officials. Among other things, […]

A Who’s Who of Appeasers, 1939-41

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] Stanford, California; B.H. Liddell Hart papers (King’s College, London); R.R. Stokes papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford; papers of the Spanish Foreign Ministry archives, Madrid; documents released by the FBI under the Freedom of Information Acts. Published: Documenti Diplomatici Italiani (DDI) Documents on German Foreign Policy (DGFP) Nicholas Bethell, The War Hitler Won (1972) Anthony Cave […]

Persian Drugs: Oliver North, the DEA and Covert Operations in the Mideast

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] 1980s that BCCI ‘was involved in illegal activities such as money-laundering, narcotics and terrorism’.(8) Kerr also declared that he provided other federal agencies, including the State Department, FBI, DEA and Treasury, with ‘several hundred reports’ on the bank’s criminal operations, starting no later than 1985.(9) Kerr added, however, that the CIA had no knowledge […]

Drugging America: a Trojan Horse

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] In effect, some of the world’s major drug-dealers have become immune to serious prosecution by US authorities. National security (covering the CIA’s bureaucratic ass) overrides the DEA, FBI, Department of Justice etc. Inside this overall structure some CIA personnel have become corrupt, just as some politicians have taken drug money. The combination of national […]

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