Suddenly in September?

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[PDF file]: […] told by the Bush White House that the air was safe to breathe.6 Under legal pressure from the families of 9/11 victims, Biden has now said more FBI material will be opened up.7 In the UK there is the demand to reopen the inquest into the death in the North Tower of British citizen […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] I noticed in a review of Seth Rosenfeld’s Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power7 that Aoki had been working for the FBI at the time. What would the American left have looked like without the federal government’s involvement? Brain waves T hree significant pieces warning us about the […]

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Cielo Drive had become a gathering place for ‘liberal Hollywood’ figures such as Mama Cass, Warren Beatty and Jane Fonda – all of whom were reportedly under FBI surveillance. Abigail Folger, one of the Cielo victims, was an outspoken civil rights activist. Hoover’s memo says, ‘An anonymous letter is being prepared for Bureau approval […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] by President Johnson between 8 and 9 pm on the day of the assassination.82 As Phase Two spread across Washington the American state ditched Phase One. The FBI did not want Phase One because it was supposed to be able to detect and prevent domestic ‘communist conspiracies’ and here was one apparently involving someone […]

2011: a Reagan odyssey

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[PDF file]: […] of corporate interests, mainly the General Electric trust. He became rich from speculation when real estate was being expropriated from Japanese-Americans in California and influential as an FBI informer. All told it was an excellent record to propel him into the California governor’s mansion as the representative of its most reactionary business elements. However […]

lob86View from Bridge

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[…] al-Qaeda and the 9/11 plot. The second question, with which the 9/11 Commission struggled but was unable to answer, is why the CIA failed to tell the FBI and the White House when the agency knew about al-Qaeda terrorists in the United 24 See or . 25 or 26 or 27 Clarke had speculated […]

lob86View from Bridge

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[…] al-Qaeda and the 9/11 plot. The second question, with which the 9/11 Commission struggled but was unable to answer, is why the CIA failed to tell the FBI and the White House when the agency knew about al-Qaeda terrorists in the United 24 See or . 25 or 26 or 27 Clarke had speculated […]

The Clandestine Caucus: a minor update

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[PDF file]: […] To my knowledge no-one from MI5 has ever explained this decision. It may be that MI5 was told not to expose it by its American counterparts, the FBI. They knew that the CPUSA was being funded by the Soviets because the member who acted as the Party’s bagmen was an FBI informant.6 Had MI5 […]

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[…] al-Qaeda and the 9/11 plot. The second question, with which the 9/11 Commission struggled but was unable to answer, is why the CIA failed to tell the FBI and the White 11 See or . 12 or 13 or 14 Clarke had speculated along these lines five years earlier. See or . 10 House […]

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