A Friendship of Convenience

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Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] both at Eton. The book ends with Losey surveying the smouldering ruins of Nettlefold Studios, supposedly torched by the CIA in an attempt to demonstrate to the FBI that it could carry out acts of sabotage with the best of them, and also to warn Losey that he was still under their surveillance. (This […]

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ELF, microwaves, etc. update

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] Armen Victorian in a letter: ‘I took this threat seriously and so did everyone who heard the tape. I immediately took the following steps: I notified the FBI in Los Alamos. I notified the White House Press office that a candidate for Undersecretary of Defense was making death threats. I notifed the Secretary of […]

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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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How to Fix an Election

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] assumed the tape had been sent by a secret sympathiser in the Bush camp, and wisely handed it to his lawyer. His lawyer took it to the FBI. His suspicion aroused by the Bush campaign’s relaxed attitude to an apparent traitor in its midst, Downey carried out an investigation of his own, and concluded […]

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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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Web Update

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] technique whereby a message is hidden inside a picture or music file transmitted over the internet) were used in planning the 11 Sept. attacks: ‘According to the FBI, the conspirators had not used encryption or concealment methods.’ More articles by Duncan Campbell on this debate at Telepolis: ‘How the terror trail went unseen’ www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/9751/1.html […]

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MISC.: Wapping. Gordiefsky. October Surprise. Stone’s JFK. Martin Luther King

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] of the ‘it’s all the fault of the Xs’ variety. Who needs these crazy conspiracy theories? The great federal law and order and intelligence conspiracies like the FBI, CIA and NSA need them to legitimize and empower the term ‘conspiracy theorist’. OK, it’s just a hypothesis, but is there any evidence that the U.S. […]

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The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] to the members of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Senate Committee on Government Affairs. (p. 17) As a congressman said on videotape to John DeLorean during an FBI corruption ‘sting’ in the 1980s, ‘Money talks and bullshit walks’. And in this case it’s taxpayers’ money, given to the arms corporations by politicians who then […]

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Are spies useless? A Hack’s Progress

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Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] its empire in the post-war era.(5) It is becoming increasingly clear that MI5 have played a considerable role in fragmenting and frustrating the British Left, and the FBI a similiar, albeit bloodier, role in the USA. I suspect we will find that throughout the Commonwealth countries the same thing happened. Little fragments keep cropping […]

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…MI5 goes on forever

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] who its supporters are. You find the potential terrorists by offering them a terrorist organisation to join. (Lee Harvey Oswald was probably doing something similar for the FBI in New Orleans with his one-man Fair Play for Cuba Committee.) Or informants, paid by results, elaborate, expand and exaggerate their activities. (Bits of all of […]

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