Western Goals: LA Police Settle For $1.8 million

Lobster Issue 4 (1984)

[…] was never found. Flynt believes the shooting was connected to the offer of money and has said, once on British television, that he was shot by the FBI. To my knowledge he has yet to produce any evidence for this belief. Flynt is now producing a new magazine in the States, The Rebel, which, […]

A Pretext for War; Ghost Wars

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] by Washington inertia; reluctance to embarrass Arab customers and allies; inability to get bin Laden’s threat to the top of the crowded agenda; bureaucratic rivalries between the FBI and CIA; legal restrictions on killing non-US citizens; the difficulties of operating in Afghanistan, and so forth. There are no heroes but the CIA’s bin Laden […]

Miscellaneous Publications

Lobster Issue 21 (1991)

[…] Box 34583, Washington DC, 20043. Issue 36, Spring 1991, includes a double-page spread of psywar material- posters, leaflets and cartoons, some accusing various individuals of being police/ FBI informers – produced for the FBl’s Cointelpro operations against the Black Panthers in the late 1960s. This is the first time, to my knowledge, that such […]

‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church

Lobster Issue 21 (1991)

[…] official sounding name, the ASC is a private right-wing organization dating from the McCarthy period. It was founded in 1955 as the Mid-American Research Library by former FBI personnel and funded by leading ‘security-conscious’ American corporations. Renamed the ASC in 1956, it originally concerned itself with amassing extensive files on supposed left-wing ‘subversives’, which […]

Vote-rigging USA

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] congressman, Claude Pepper, in the 1970 election in Dade County. Pepper won in what the brothers soon realised had been a manipulated vote involving county officers, police, FBI, and judiciary. Their subsequent years of investigation only confirmed that vote-rigging was alive and well in America. One episode in the Colliers’ investigation in the aftermath […]

Hess, ‘Hess’, Timewatch et al

Lobster Issue 20 (1990)

[…] SIS to steal files 10 and 11 from Box 3 at the Hoover Institution. The Hoover Institution wrote to inform me of the disappearance. They instructed the FBI.’ De Courcy claims that the FBI investigating officers refused him a list of their suspects because ‘they have been so instructed by the Cabinet Office’. The […]

A ‘great venture’: overthrowing the government of Iran

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] might like to surprise the organiser, Dr. Alex Hay, at 2 Popes Lane, London W5 4NA (0181 567 6772), by asking him. Lyndon LaRouche Jnr, please note. Information Wanted On: FBI smear campaign against American Nazi Frank Collin/Cohn (1970s) FBI investigation into the Silent Brotherhood (1983-4) Fort Smith Sedition Trial (1988) To the editor, please.

The dark side of Washington: Seymour Hersh and the Kennedy legacy

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] the break-in at Exner’s LA apartment by I. B. Hale, head of General Dynamics corporate security on August 7, 1962, which was observed by the 24 hour FBI surveillance on the president’s mistress. Hersh admits being unable to establish how the ailing arms corporation had come across this information which, it is claimed, enabled […]

Jim Jones and the Conspiracists

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 […]

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[…] Subscribe to get premium access Reviews of Lobster Contact Lobster Lobster on Twitter About the publisher Privacy Policy   Sample articles 9/11’s Trainer in Terrorism Was an FBI Informant, by Peter Dale Scott (2006) The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11, by Peter Dale Scott (2005) Getting it right: the […]

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