Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Almost everyone who knew Whitson well believed he was working for some branch of the CIA, operating in various parts of the world as an anti-communist penetration agent and fixer. O’Neill writes, ‘Once he’d consumed me, I found myself fixating on possibilities that I would’ve dismissed as insane only months before.’ CHAOS and COINTELPRO […]

Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] and civil liberties. He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. 163) On the contrary, the argument that Starmer’s so-called […]

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] Game of espionage. None of the intelligence Curiously, Gillman and Midolo report that Worsthorne was described as a good contact by the KGB London rezident and double agent Oleg Gordievsky. Murder in Cairo p. 371 2 2 services Gillman and Midolo had scrutinised were innocent. The KGB was exploiting Holden to penetrate the Middle […]

The CIA conspiracy to murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer and their vision for world peace by Peter Janney

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] the conversations with Crowley,5 and then the solution to the Dallas mystery. A witness to the relationship between Douglas and the CIA officers exists. A retired FBI agent, Tom Kimmel, who knew Crowley was talking to Douglas, commented that he could not understand why the ‘very introspective, very accomplished intelligence officer’ Crowley ‘embraced Stahl […]

Newsinger on Strarmer

Lobster Issue

[…] and civil liberties. He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. 163) On the contrary, the argument that Starmer’s so-called […]

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