Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy From Truman to Trump by Jonathan Marshall

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] House and journalist Jack Anderson, who was reporting on Watergate. ‘Meanwhile, others in the White House sought simply to discredit Anderson. They called in investigators from the FBI, the IRS, and even a high-powered private eye service, which at the same time was investigating Maheu on behalf of the Hughes organization. The CIA’s Office […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] shot NO basilar views (from underneath – the underside of the brain), yet half of the Archives brain photos ARE basilar views. But it gets worse. Former FBI agent Francis O’Neill (who was at the JFK autopsy) testified during his 1997 ARRB deposition that more than one half of JFK’s brain was missing when […]

LBJ: doubles and disinformation

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] long chats.’ Johnson immediately asked aides to find out who Peck was and in August that year a memo to his secretary Juanita Roberts stated that the FBI had been unable to find anything indicating a family connection between Peck and Johnson. Peck had previously written to Johnson in 1965 and in that letter […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] shot NO basilar views (from underneath – the underside of the brain), yet half of the Archives brain photos ARE basilar views. But it gets worse. Former FBI agent Francis O’Neill (who was at the JFK autopsy) testified during his 1997 ARRB deposition that more than one half of JFK’s brain was missing when […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] when the Republicans got wind of this, JFK’s brother (and Attorney General) expelled her (illegally) from the US. Because Rometsch had originally come from East Germany, the FBI suspected she might be a Soviet bloc agent. No evidence of this has every appeared. Rometsch has not been seen or heard of since. My guess […]

End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

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[PDF file]: […] public law officials and right-wing police departments, which it is claimed have been infiltrated by groups of right-wing extremists. Those, in turn, have been infiltrated by the FBI, who act as provocateurs to or 6 5 entrap and prosecute radicalised extremists.7 As a former Russian dissident, Turchin has a sharp eye for the treatment […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] are still being suppressed on the Democratic side of American politics. In the LBJ library’s oral history section there is an interview with Cartha Deloach, a senior FBI man of the period, who was that agency’s liaison with President Johnson, in which this exchange takes place. Question: ‘There was evidence, though, that Anna Chennault […]

Everybody Knows: Corruption in America by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] got an eighteen month sentence ‘for soliciting, molesting, and raping underage girls the result of a strange and disturbing plea deal’. It is worth remembering that the FBI had testimony from 36 victims. The US Attorney for South Florida at that time, Alexander Acosta, later claimed that he had been told that ‘Epstein “belonged […]

The secret library of Georges Armoulian by Anthony Frewin

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] book. Anthony Frewin is a regular Lobster contributor, novelist and screenwriter, and the book’s intentions are stated when Frewin’s preface is headed by a quotation allegedly from FBI taps on the phone of Chicago mobster Sam Giancana, in which he is discussing the new novel by Joan Didion. ‘Preface? What’s with these fucking prefaces? […]

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