Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] be you, your family, your town, And – via a defensive switch – your country – the U.S. of Mafia. Who’s to censor it? J. Mafia Hoover’s FBI? Mafia ITT? McCone’s CIA? President Chappaquiddick-Onassis-Hughes Dick? Next president Chappa-quiddick Onassis-Hughes Teddy? Any Mafia court? Any Mafia attorney? Any Media Mafia? Who? Mafia Alioto’s cops? Mary […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] have seen, defended Goleniewski’s assertion that Kissinger was a Soviet agent. (28) But Capell was not the first to finger de Morenschildt. In 1967, according to an FBI memo, McDonald himself and his friend Leonard Davidov, a fellow CIA contract agent, friend of Kimsey, and Goldwater security staffer, sought information about de Morenschildt’s involvement […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] reviews of this book there are many raves; but continue on down through the second page and you come to a very destructive review by a former FBI agent, Delbert Hahn, who was interviewed by Hopsicker. Before buying this read that. Notes If the Zelig reference escapes you try On getaway styles, I prefer […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] (no 16) in February. The usual unclassifiable mixture: some new research on the bombing of Earth First’s Judi Bari; Kenn Thomas on attempts to get Timothy Leary’s FBI file via the FOIA; a disinformation operation by South African intelligence (the non-existent FAPLA); a memoir of radical politics in the mid-West of the 1930s; interview […]