A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013). of deep reporting. We learn, for instance, that a CIA staffer in Mexico City served in the OSS (the CIA’s precursor) with an agent Julia McWilliams, best known to millions as the celebrated chef Julia Child’. Deep reporting? Big deal! Dean’s concluding paragraph: ‘There is enough uncovered here to give […]

Phil Shenon – a cruel and shocking twist

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] time, Rolando Cubela (AMLASH) was meeting his CIA case officer in Brazil to discuss the assassination of Castro.9 As some CIA officers suspected, Cubela was a double- agent, informing Castro of his CIA contacts. This may explain why Castro chose the Brazilian embassy to deliver his message to Kennedy, a double entendre that was […]

MANUFACTURING TERRORISM: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society by T. J. Coles

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: Into the quagmire MANUFACTURING TERRORISM When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society T. J. Coles Sussex (UK): Clairview Books, 2018, p/b, £14.99 Robin Ramsay One of the most influential books published in the English-speaking world since the Millennium was James Bamford’s 2001 Body of Secrets about the NSA. Although it attracted […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] work with the Pinay Circle (Cercle Pinay) in the 1970s and 80s.9 But the Telegraph fudged Crozier’s links with the CIA, even though in his memoir Free Agent, Crozier is open 7 and 8 On which see David Teacher’s enormous study, downloadable at . 9 5 The willingness to fake US intelligence for bureaucratic […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Kingston upon Hull. Ismail Hassan Sowan, a 29 year-old Palestinian engineer was arrested and confessed to Scotland Yard detectives that he had been working as a double- agent for the Mossad on a sting operation directed against the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Britain. Sowan told the British that the Mossad had used him to […]

The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] prewar European colonial powers given the UN Charter and its promise of national self-determination. The US regime was also able to market itself as the ideal development agent. Unscathed by World War II, it had already devoted substantial efforts to ‘rebuild’ Europe and supply food and other economic aid to countries left in distress […]

The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] dropped. Millions dead and often permanent environmental damage was done to health and livelihoods as ‘19 million gallons of toxic herbicides’, and indiscriminate use of napalm and Agent Orange were unleashed on Vietnam. The infamous Phoenix Program of assassination and terror with an estimated 70,000 Vietnamese deaths replete with sadistic torture chambers. Whole populations […]

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