Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Gentry. ‘However, Hoover was also convinced, at other times, that she had numerous male lovers, including at least one black’. Based on a joke intercepted through a bug in the offices of the National Maritime Union, Hoover concluded that the union’s two top officials were both sexually ‘servicing’ Eleanor Roosevelt, probably to further the […]

Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] to pay hospital bills for a daughter with a long-term and expensive medical condition. 4 2 action was.5 The conventional account is that they were trying to bug the phone of DNC chair Larry O’Brien. The author quotes journalist Jack Anderson: ‘. . . on an earlier visit to the November Group6 office in […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

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[…] needed to pay hospital bills for a daughter with a long-term and expensive medical condition. 4 action was.5 The conventional account is that they were trying to bug the phone of DNC chair Larry O’Brien. The author quotes journalist Jack Anderson: ‘. . . on an earlier visit to the November Group6 office in […]

Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Phyllis McGuire. She was consorting with ‘Laugh-In’ comedian Dan Rowan behind Giancana’s back in Las Vegas. As a favor for Giancana’s help in Cuba, Maheu agreed to ‘bug’ Rowan’s Las Vegas hotel room. Remarkably, the CIA gave him $1,000 to do it.4 2 The operation was worthy of the Keystone Kops – or the […]

Mark Lewis and ‘the ultimate hacker’

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] year later, More was named in Florida as one of 15 defendants accused of racketeering, mail fraud and employing a Hambro subsidiary called Network Security Management to bug the U.S. phone billing system and steal items from the Florida home of Douglas Leese, a millionaire business rival of the Littlewoods stores family. Douglas Leese’s […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

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[PDF file]: […] rumbled rouble trauma’, Guardian, 19 November 1991. 4 Guardian 15 November 1991. 5 Spycatcher p. 175. In fact, says Falber, he kept no records. 6 One such bug is pictured on p. 31 of the Independent, 25 November 1989. 2 doing, in the post-Hungary climate irrefutable exposure of the Soviet connection would have terminally […]

The view from the bridge

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White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate Story by Phil Stanford

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 2013, $17.95, p/b Feralhouse.com O ne of the unanswered questions in the received versions of the Watergate affair was: why did the White House ‘plumbers’ want to bug the phones at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in the Watergate complex? The DNC was a bureaucratic entity, not where the political action was. In his […]

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