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 […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] was also ignorant of Baird’s many organized crime connections, a failing that later hearings and news accounts never corrected. Today, with the benefit of facts gleaned from FBI files, subsequent Congressional investigations, and journalistic investigations of organized crime, it becomes clearer that Baird was engaged in profitable insider transactions with a long-lasting and densely […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] surveys of houses of prostitution’ as a prelude to enforcing the ‘White Slave Traffic Act,’ also known as the Mann Act.1 5 As one historian of the FBI has observed: ‘by exaggerating the danger of organized vice, portraying it as a real menace to the American society, and by broadly interpreting the law, the […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] ‘smoking gun’, was a taped Oval Office conversation in which Nixon ordered his aides to get the CIA to help quash the Watergate investigation by telling the FBI that it was intruding on a sensitive intelligence operation. To enlist the CIA’s cooperation, Nixon proposed blackmailing the Agency by warning that the FBI probe could […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] 978-1-936296-86-6 Author Don Adams was already investigating the JFK assassination before it had even happened. On 13 November 1963 he was called at his home by an FBI superior and told to track down and interview one Joseph Milteer of Quitman, Georgia. Milteer was a prominent white supremacist and Klansman, whose activities and influence […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: JFK’s assassination: two stories about fingerprints Garrick Alder Mac Wallace: The FBI print examination Further to my essay ‘Mac Wallace and the finger of guilt’ (Lobster 68), I submitted an FOI request to the US Department of Justice to obtain documents involved in the print examination that resulted in the FBI’s 1999 finding of […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] That is five years before Dr King was murdered, and while President Kennedy and his brother Robert were still in office. October 15, 1963 On this date, FBI Intelligence Operations chief William C Sullivan disseminated a memo. In it, he announced the completion and imminent circulation of a dossier entitled ‘Communism and the Negro […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] but below master sergeant. Rodriguez was below the rank of master sergeant and hence a ‘buck sergeant’. discussed mess duty in the Marines. On 30 November 1963, FBI SA John Schaller interviewed Powers. Powers told Schaller that when he and Oswald were stationed in the Philippines for a few months in 1958, ‘OSWALD was […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] The documents have been debunked over and over again, but phantom things die phantom deaths and so they still keep coming up decades later. In 1988 the FBI investigated the alleged leak of the documents and concluded that they were bogus. However, as a 2017 FOIA request revealed, the FBI conducted its investigation in […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] the Nixie parcel and the FBI’s interviews with Ruth Paine and her housemate, Lee’s wife Marina Oswald. On 20 February 1964 Irving postal inspector Roy Armstrong told FBI interviewers that by inquiring in Irving and Dallas, he had somehow ascertained that the delivery slip of 20 November related to a magazine delivered to Mrs […]