Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] unknown task behind the Iron Curtain. As we know now, the Soviets never trusted Oswald; the MVD (the Soviet version of the FBI) kept him under continual surveillance, both in Moscow and Minsk. If Oswald were a ‘controlled defector’, perhaps he did secretly go to either Iwakuni or Tokyo (or Miami Beach for that […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] essentially saw control in terms of depopulation, intensive research was devoted to manipulating indigenous social structures in the same way marketing was elaborated as a system of surveillance and intervention to control the population of industrialised societies. This was fostered by the process of professionalisation, especially in medicine and journalism. The outgrowth of professionalising […]

The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Assistance11 and David Stirling’s GB75 – had been formed to combat the ‘threat’ from the left.12 The Labour Cabinets of Harold Wilson (1974-76) had been under intense surveillance in the hunt for Soviet influence. Several members, notably Wilson himself, had been burgled. Smear and disinformation campaigns had been run against both Labour and Liberal […]

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

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] over five hundred people in all. One of the central mysteries was the massive LASO raid on the Spahn ranch, which would never have been approved without surveillance reports. And why, after LASO found stolen property, guns, drugs and underage girls, was Manson, a law-breaking parolee, released? The search warrant and crime report relating […]

Historical Notes on British complicity in the Gaza genocide

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] jump of £127.6 million between October and December 2024, a three-month figure which exceeded the whole of the period from 2020–2023.17 Second, the RAF has been making surveillance flights over Gaza from its Akrotiri base in Cyprus since the start of the Israeli invasion, sharing the results of these with the IDF. In March […]

MI5 speaks to the nation!

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] he was appointed head of counter terrorism. During the official inquest into the 2005 attack it was revealed that, over a year before the bombings occurred, a surveillance photograph of 7/7 bombers Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer had been available. However, as the Guardian reported, they were ‘cropped by intelligence officials in such […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] in the 1950s and his role in getting nuclear technology to Israel. The second essay goes into detail about Angleton’s relationship with the FBI and his domestic surveillance operations in the US leading up the assassination of Kennedy. Klarenberg reminds us that: Angleton’s CIA counterintelligence staff ordered Lee Harvey Oswald’s removal from federal watchlists […]

Malcolm Kennedy: European Court of Human Rights judgement

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] communicating and destruction of intercept material collected. The Court further observes that there is no evidence of any significant shortcomings in the application and operation of the surveillance regime. On the contrary, the various reports of the Commissioner have highlighted the diligence with which the authorities implement RIPA and correct any technical or human […]

View from

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[…] and a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania, was reading purported triggerman Lee Harvey Oswald’s private mail years prior to the JFK assassination as part of a closelyheld CIA surveillance program. Beyond that DeBrosse offers only assertions and conspiracy theories. For example: Evidence that Angleton was at the very center of the JFK assassination conspiracy has […]

View from

Lobster Issue

[…] and a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania, was reading purported triggerman Lee Harvey Oswald’s private mail years prior to the JFK assassination as part of a closelyheld CIA surveillance program. Beyond that DeBrosse offers only assertions and conspiracy theories. For example: Evidence that Angleton was at the very center of the JFK assassination conspiracy has […]

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