Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[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)

[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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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)

[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)

[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

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[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 Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] in the Party’. MI5 had Stewart’s office bugged (‘Operation Table’) and heard all the discussion, something all the more remarkable since the Party had known about the bug since Anthony Blunt informed the NKVD of its existence in 1940. At the time this interview took place, MI5 were tapping Klugmann’s phone, his mother’s phone […]

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