The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] some of the connections might have been so politically damaging that they might have destroyed the agency’s usefulness. Hughes was at the center of the attempts to assassinate Castro, as was Hunt. To me, the most likely origin of the break-in was Hunt trying to go after Larry O’Brien—not in his DNC capacity, but […]

David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] quit MI5, Shayler said the LIFG was the organisation that had, in the mid-1990s, been chosen by MI6 to be the recipients of a financial encouragement to assassinate Muammar Gaddafi. MI5 had become aware of this when Shayler was a desk officer in the section of MI5 known as G9 – G Branch being […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] most closely guarded secrets of the
 Cold War era. The Agency went to extraordinary lengths to cover up its recruitment of leading U.S. mobsters in 1960 to assassinate Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, a fact made public only in 1975.1 In contrast, the CIA’s relations with mob-linked banks and insurance companies in Florida and […]

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