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 […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] in the story. Both have connections to the CIA-funded anti-Castro operations; but that is all. The second thing Armstrong does is show in great detail how the FBI ‘edited’ the evidence about the shooting. The FBI had all the evidence collected by the Dallas police sent to Washington and a lot of it didn’t […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)
[…] significant new evidence but provides some biographical details on Wallace. Bizarrely, he calls Wallace a Marxist (as does Estes), apparently based on nothing more than a 1949 FBI file. In one of his ‘faction’ sections McClellan has Wallace, the Marxist, recruiting Oswald, another Marxist. So in his version, if LBJ and Ed Clark were […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)
In an article in the Journal of Popular Culture, (1) one of the editors of the Jonestown Report considers the role that conspiracy theories have played in the unfolding narrative of ‘Jonestown’. It is a worthwhile endeavour to which few scholars could bring better credentials. Rebecca Moore is a professor of religious studies at the […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
[…] duty to provide information on request. It is important to respond; site gives details how to; responses by 31 Jan 2003. EPIC Carnivore FOIA litigation http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/ The FBI claim that the Carnivore internet monitoring system, which is installed at ISPs and can monitor all data traffic, can be programmed to only deliver to investigators […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)
Turning up the Heat: MI5 after the Cold War Larry O’Hara Phoenix Press, London, 1994, £6 (p and p included) from BM Box 4769, London WC1N 3XX; cheques payable to Larry O’Hara. Since 1945 MI5 has had three main domestic targets: Soviet bloc espionage, the British Left and the IRA. With the Soviet target gone, […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] one of the dirty secrets which had to be kept out of the 9-11 inquiry. This material is one of the reasons that the testimony of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, who listened to FBI wiretaps of the Khan network using Turkish intermediaries and American lobbyists and politicians in the network’s continuing pursuit of […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
[…] committee was the first – and last – of its kind. Given a sweeping mandate to investigate interstate organised crime, something which Hoover, then head of the FBI, denied existed, it looked for a time in the early fifties as if it might not only break the power of the Mob but also propel […]