View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] of this off.4 One curiosity: he writes: Another inspiration for Stone’s film was another well-known popularizer of the ‘invisible government’ or ‘deep state’ JFK conspiracy theory: Leroy Fletcher Prouty. But he omits the fact the Prouty had been a Colonel in the USAF and liaison with the CIA.5 File under ‘All our yesterdays’. There […]

The Secret Team

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: The Secret Team Robin Ramsay A new edition of L. Fletcher Prouty’s landmark 1973 The Secret Team has been published, though who has published it is unclear. An A4 format edition has turned up, apparently a reprint of the 2011 edition, with ‘Green Farmers EcoGeo Resources’ at the top of the first page. But […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] must be a decent chance that those Dallas Police arrest records were released precisely to discredit Holt.) There is a necessary caveat there. Two American soldiers, Colonel Fletcher Prouty and General Victor Krulak, identified CIA officer Edward Lansdale as being in one of the shots of the ‘tramps’, passing them, going in the opposite […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] a couple of hours after the shooting of JFK. I reproduce it here because Robert Morrow67 has reminded his readers that two senior American military officers, Colonel Fletcher Prouty and General Victor Krulak, identified the figure with his back to the camera as the senior CIA officer Edward Lansdale.68 Could you identify someone you […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] a couple of hours after the shooting of JFK. I reproduce it here because Robert Morrow49 has reminded his readers that two senior American military officers, Colonel Fletcher Prouty and General Victor Krulak, identified the figure with his back to the camera as the senior CIA officer Edward Lansdale.50 Could you identify someone you […]

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