Defending the Warren Commission:the line from Langley

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] be explained in some more natural way: e.g., the individuals concerned have for the most part died of natural causes; the commission staff questioned 418 witnesses (the FBI interviewed far more people, conducting 25,000 interviews and re-interviews) and in such a large group, a certain number of deaths are to be expected. (When Penn […]

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The Strength of the Wolf

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] of organised crime. Which is to say the FBN was a political loose cannon in both overseas and domestic policy, engaged in continual bureaucratic warfare with the FBI, CIA, and local police forces, repeatedly discovering things that were supposed to stay hidden and trying to arrest ‘the wrong people’. In the introduction Valentine offers […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] very good issue, for in addition to Hayes there is a piece on the CIA’s co-opting of civilian air planes for covert missions, discussion of Oklahoma, an FBI agent provocateur, and an essay by Professor Carrie Foster of the Coalition on Political Assassinations Speakers Bureau, ‘Conspiracy is as American as Apple pie’. Must be […]

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SISies: MI6, and, A Life: A. J. Ayer (Book reviews)

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] as a possible scenario. When the American files are opened to inspection ten or twenty years from now, it won’t be surprising if, together with records of FBI surveillance of NORAID, there are also records of covert meetings between CIA and NORAID ‘representatives’.   The actual mechanisms of the British state Considering the deposing […]

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House of Bush, House of Saud

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] he repeats Posner’s claim. Unger also refers to Edward James Epstein’s website, but sadly doesn’t repeat my favourite Bush I conspiracy anecdote – the one about the FBI memo in which ‘Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency’ denounced a Republican (!) political rival, for JFK-assassination-related activities, in 1963. In the end, maybe […]

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Foreign Agent 4221: The Lockerbie Cover-up

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] describes naive Mr Chasey meeting and signing up with the Libyans, going to Libya, meeting Colonel Qadhafi, and then being harassed by the US government; phone-taps, an FBI attempt to entrap him involving a US Congressman, threats, and (illegal) legal actions against him and his firm. Yes folks, this is another in the long […]

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Heritage of Stone; JFK and JFK

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] Digest, one of Langley’s major psy-war tools of the post-war years, Legend tried to restore the KGB as Oswald’s ultimate paymasters. (2) His links to the CIA, FBI and anti-Castro Cuban movements disappeared. It was childish drivel but quite effective nonetheless. You may not be able to fool all the media all of the […]

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Correspondence

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] inch diameter 4 power scope. Technical ignorance allows a lot of bullshit to float by. Hinkley’s ‘explosive bullets’ are another example. I happen to know that had he been using what the FBI claimed, no one would have even gone to the hospital. Maximum penetration would have been less than a half inch of flesh.”

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Re:

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] ‘Mercenaries in Trouble Spots to be Regulated’, The Independent 31 July 2004, p.18 10 Established under the 1950 Internal Security Act, the SISS worked closely with the FBI to ensure that Communist Party members registered themselves with the Attorney General. It also conducted Senate hearings for 27 years to ensure that the register was […]

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Conspiracy theories are go!

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] armed to the teeth and – it is said – actually planning to fight the Illuminati! Any minute now there will anti-Illuminati terrorism in the USA; the FBI will announce the creation of an Illuminati Task Force. Hitherto this field had been pretty much an exclusively American set of conspiracy theories, but they are […]

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