Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] secret service to prevent America from ‘falling into the hands of capitalist robber barons.’ Clearly that did not altogether succeed; and it is doubtful whether either the FBI or MI5 could be tasked with a similar duty today. (The last I heard on this from a senior intelligence officer – ‘Chatham House rules’ prevent […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] making these statements. 1 Answer: Goldwater was very confident.’ It is this Stone quotes, but without attributing it. The KGB story is true and well known.2 An FBI source within the KGB reported that said agency believed Johnson was behind it. ‘Stone ties LBJ to at least seven politically motivated murders prior to the […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] coin the word. The NSA is the ‘National Stasi Agency’, another nice joke but not really justified: the Stasi were the secret police, more akin to the FBI; the NSA is just a surveillance agency. The following paragraphs are just some of the many I noted and may give a sense of Roberts’ writing […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] phone the American embassy for some ‘big news’ shortly before JFK was assassinated, was made from there, probably by Osborne. See the present writer’s piece, ‘JFK, the FBI and the Cambridge Phone Call,’ Lobster 30, December 1995. (1987) especially, Mariella’s columns in Paul Raymond’s sleazy mag, Club International, and a couple of demi-monde Soho […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] Scare. In Britain, he argues, ‘MI5’s activity was much more circumspect and rarely resulted in direct forms of censorship’, let alone any ‘explosive arrests’. MI5, unlike the FBI, did not have a Book Review Section, examining content. There were no British Dashiell Hammetts or Howard Fasts imprisoned for a political stand. Nevertheless, despite the […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[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 […]