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[…] Service. In an unrelated Office of Security file on Robert Maheu there is a clipping which features Bill Harvey and Hal Swenson (both CIA retirees and former FBI agents)…..they are described as working for Bishop Reporting (sic). From memory I think the Office of Security had clipped this piece from The Grapevine a small […]

LBJ: the mastermind of JFK’s assassination by Phillip F. Nelson

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[PDF file]: […] Lobster 61 spelling and lack of grammatical knowledge. Mackenzie’s version of the events in Dallas can be summarised thus: everybody was involved – mob, military, anti-Castro Cubans, FBI, Oswald and Ruby, LBJ, ‘Mac’ Wallace….but not, apparently, the CIA. The CIA are almost entirely missing from this story. It’s the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) Mackenzie […]

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[…] Service. In an unrelated Office of Security file on Robert Maheu there is a clipping which features Bill Harvey and Hal Swenson (both CIA retirees and former FBI agents)…..they are described as working for This site also carries substantial recent essays on the British Army’s Frank Kitson (who died recently) and Kincora. 4 This […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] CIA advisors were developing what would be called the Phoenix Program in Vietnam — an improvement and systematic organisation of the methods used in Korea — the FBI, together with Army Intelligence and local police forces were waging a counterinsurgency equivalent against Blacks and Indians in the US. Even liberal youth were targeted, e.g. […]

Historical Notes

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[PDF file]: […] believing that he still possessed capabilities for mass killing. Saddam’s best-hidden secret was his (at least temporary) weakness.38 The ‘bluff’ story seems to have originated in the FBI, whose agent George Piro (an Arabic-speaking Lebanese American) interrogated Saddam after his capture.39 The Daily Mail reported that during the interrogation Piro came to understand that […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

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[…] texts, maybe. unit established in the White House ostensibly to investigate and prevent leaks of information: anything goes. There was a pool of ex-CIA, ex-military and ex- FBI people in Washington looking to supplement their pensions. The Nixon team didn’t know much about this world and picked people on the say-so of others. Thus […]

South of the border

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[PDF file]: […] Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman was sentenced to a minimum term of 30 years for plotting to kill British Prime Minister, Theresa May. Initially, ‘Rahman made contact with an FBI agent posing as an IS official online, who introduced him to an MI5 role-player.’16 The jury took thirteen hours to reach their decision and, after he […]

Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan

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[PDF file]: […] maybe. 1 unit established in the White House ostensibly to investigate and prevent leaks of information: anything goes. There was a pool of ex-CIA, ex-military and ex- FBI people in Washington looking to supplement their pensions. The Nixon team didn’t know much about this world and picked people on the say-so of others. Thus […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] been reduced to a tiny rump. Why they did not do so is not known. My guess would be that they were told not to by the FBI, which was letting Soviet money into the CPUSA. In the early 1970s, what we might call anxious patriots believed the conspiracy theory of ‘the enemy within’. […]

A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11

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[PDF file]: […] with Surikov at the Hotel Bristol in Vienna Petrov ‘04 and I think of Indira Singh who lost her job at J.P. Morgan after she notified the FBI about Ptech the hi-tech Islamist firm bankrolled by Yasin al-Qadi, a wealthy Saudi investor who has been officially designated as a terrorism financier with contracts at […]

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