[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] “core group” during the 1980 hostage crisis. Herbert Cohen of the Hoover Institution, a member of the Carter Administration’s Hostage Task Force and a consultant to the FBI and Justice Departments on the hostage negotiations in 1980, met with Reagan Campaign Manager William Casey in the New York City Plaza Hotel in September 1980 […]
[…] to me. Flatland Two interesting pieces on Jim Martin’s Flatland Website, http://www.flatland books.com/ His ‘America’s Al-Qaeda: The SLA-Venceremos Connection’ and another take on the Judy Bari/Earth First/ FBI bombing story. Her ex-husband did it, says Martin, not the FBI. Red Star Research By far the best source on New Labour, personnel, sources of funding […]
First off, a slight digression. There’s been much talk recently about just how many books have been published on the assassination. ‘Over 2000’ is the figure that has been thrown around and this may be traced to the very opening sentence of Gerald Posner’s egregious Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK […]
[…] Diem by a personal friend of Kennedy’s, Torbert MacDonald. “MacDonald himself explained why Kennedy sent him. The President had begun to develop personal sources of information from FBI men who were bypassing J. Edgar Hoover and going directly to him. Some CIA people were following a similar route and avoiding the agency …. when […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] newspapers. MI5 lost laptops! Le Carre was a spy! ETA are bad! Star Wars hack Donald Rumsford has ‘vast political experience’ and his credibility is ‘sky high!’ FBI spy Robert Hanssen was bad! (But no info about his specific badness, and no mention of the tunnel the Americans dug under the Russian embassy, or […]
[…] here, but consider the following items, at least: Medellin trafficker Carlos Lehder testified at Noriega’s 1991 trial that the Medellin cartel gave $10 million to the contras. FBI informant Wanda Palacio told the Kerry subcommittee that she saw cocaine being loaded onto pilot Wallace Sawyer’s plane in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1985. (Sawyer and his […]
Dan Berger Edinburgh and Oakland (USA): AK Press 2006; £15 and $20, p/b The front cover of this history of the group shows a small group of the Weatherwomen, most with crash helmets on, carrying North Vietnamese flags, marching through Chicago to fight the Chicago police who were waiting in the centre of the […]
