Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] worse, Hoover also delivered to Bobby Kennedy devastating news that the CIA had teamed up with Mafia leaders – including Giancana – for a top-secret program to assassinate Fidel Castro, in effect immunizing them against federal prosecution.4 5 The power of this sex-crime-andintelligence story remained so strong that as late as 1976, a Senate […]

The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government by David Talbot

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] intelligence officer was called before McCarthy’s subcommittee and testified that he had a conversation with a CIA officer who stated (‘flatly’) that it might become necessary to assassinate McCarthy ‘as happened with Huey Long’. This is a bit of a facer and it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that this was meant to be […]

The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] lawyer for the defence.’ This seems a bit less outrageous in light of the fact that Olmedo had in fact attempted to overthrow the Cuban government and assassinate Fidel Castro the previous year, in the unimaginatively-named August 30th Plot (Conspiración del 30 de Agosto). Olmedo was offered a reprieve if he would denounce the […]

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