House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] and American foreign policy. As a member of ‘the Catholic left’ (his term), he knew the Berrigan brothers, for example; but his brother was part of the FBI squad which was trying to catch them. This is a dense but nicely and simply written multi-layered post-war history of American foreign policy in which his […]

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Web Update

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

Here are a few more web sites that may be of interest. Thanks for contributions to David Guyatt, Terry Hanstock, Daniel Brandt, Chris Atton and Tony Hollick. Further contributions and comments are welcome: my e-mail is Politics and government USA DoE Office of Human Radiation Experiments http://www.ohre.doe.gov/ ‘OHRE, established in March 1994, leads the … Read more

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Gone but not forgotten: a further update on Di

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

Gone but not forgotten: a further update on Di Terry Hanstock This update follows on from my earlier articles in Lobster 38 and Lobster 39 Never was the old adage ‘She’s dead but she won’t lie down’ more apt than when applied to the late Diana, Princess of Wales. Although she died almost nine years … Read more

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NASA, Nazis & JFK: the Torbitt Document and the JFK Assassination

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] response to the French disinformation production, Farewell America, a couple of years before. For ‘Torbitt’ lays the blame not at the CIA’s door, but jointly on the FBI and something called the Defence Industries Security Command. (On the latter I have never seen any evidence that it ever existed; and if anyone has any, […]

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Was the Director of Central Intelligence a Soviet agent?

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] its domestic enemies. This distinction is enshrined in the charter of the Central Intelligence Agency, which restricts its operations to foreign shores on the assumption that the FBI will ensure domestic tranquility. Secret intelligence agencies have three classic functions: intelligence collection and analysis (spies and scholars); oper-ations (overthrowing foreign governments and the like), and […]

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British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] MI6 officers, principally those who had served in Beirut and the Middle East in the 1950s and 60’s. Izvestiya (2.10.71) and Koduma (13. 10.71), (courtesy of the FBI). A number of officers, mainly wartime, were also named in Philby’s book My Silent War and in the various biographies written following his defection. (GCHQ) Government […]

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Jim Hougan’s Watergate theory tested in court

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] my ‘alternative theory’ and Len Colodny’s is this: I insist that inasmuch as no bugging devices were found inside the DNC, despite repeated, targeted searches by the FBI of every telephone in the office, no bugs had ever been there to be found. I argue that the bug monitored by James McCord’s employee, Alfred […]

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Official and Confidential:The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover

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Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] America, but simply that it thought it had paid off and/or blackmailed enough people to ensure immunity from serious investigation. The fact that the Mob had the FBI in its pocket until the sixties and the arrival of the Kennedys, seems to add further weight to the notion that the Mob shot JFK — […]

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America, drugs, corruption and the British national interest

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] prosecution as being from the suitcase containing the bomb was apparently from the lab tests of an identical suitcase. See American fingerprint experts were told by the FBI not to comment on apparent chaos at the Scottish Criminal Records Office for fear it damaged the Lockerbie case.  A piece in The Sunday Herald begins: […]

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Afterword: the search for “Maurice Bishop”

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] was not in Mexico City on October 10th. The man responsible for CIA surveillance operations in Mexico City was George F. Munroe, a fervent right-winger and ex- FBI agent. He was responsible for the wiring of the Soviet Embassy and Cuban Consulate. According to HSCA information there were also human contacts with two spies […]

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