[…] been found to be collecting data on hundreds of political groups, both right and left, and trading data with agencies of the U.S. state, such as the FBI. The best summary so far of this story to date — and a list of the groups being spied on — is to be found in […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] people like Terpil. Thomas (who lives tax-free in Ashford, County Wicklow) used John McCarthy to lure his sister to Ireland, claiming she was being hunted by the FBI, CIA, Scotland Yard and the Irish Special Branch. Thomas also referred to ‘high level’ sources in Washington when he told McCarthy that Gerrit was a member […]
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
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] him I got a call from an American journalist I know called Jim Hougan. Hougan had been chatting to a friend, who had a contact in the FBI and somehow this little magazine produced in Hull, England, came up. Don’t worry about Lobster, was the message, Lobster has been penetrated. That seemed absolutely hilarious […]
[…] 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 — […]
[…] 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: […]
