Still thinking about Dallas

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Still thinking about Dallas Robin Ramsay Among the most recently declassified CIA documents about the Kennedy assassination are some in which CIA officers wondered if Oswald hadn’t done the deed for Castro, or out of sympathy for Castro’s Cuba. In a piece for Politico.com1 journalist Philip Shenon and historian Larry Sabato discussed both the […]

The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] said, mystification — to be overcome is the apparent contradiction between America’s proclaimed principles and the intensity of its covert operations practices. Philip Agee once called the CIA, ‘capitalism’s invisible army’. He recalled that one of his first tasks as a junior CIA officer had been to conduct background checks on Venezuelan applicants for […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] search app ChatGPT. I asked it ‘Who was Chauncey Holt?’ And in about 5 seconds it produced this: Chauncey Marvin Holt was an American criminal and self-proclaimed CIA contract agent who claimed to have been involved in several highprofile events in U.S. history, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Holt made these […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in various capacities, including Assistant Musical Director and Conductor of the BBC Northern Ireland Symphony Orchestra (1933-38). 7 See for example . 8 A declassified 1967 internal CIA memo on the Garrison case said: ‘Clay Shaw was an innocuous DCS contact between 1948 and 1956’. (At ). Some of Garrison’s defenders think there is […]

The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] no-win situation for the left’ at . 8 ‘The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee’ at or ‘The CIA and Radio Nord’ at . 9 3 Dee’s TV career came to an abrupt end shortly after he had as a guest on his show the […]

[PDF file]: […] . . I would like to see ‘Anglo Zionist Empire’ stood up. *new* See for yourself An American called Robert Aldridge sent me an essay, ‘Did the CIA Subvert the 1968 U.S. Presidential Election?’. Aldridge argues that the murders of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy in 1968 – and a number of other […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] hadn’t come from a Russian computer hack, because he collected it for Wikileaks from an employee of the DNC.5 It was a leak not a hack.6 Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern has been saying a similar thing. McGovern’s had several conversations with senior people at the NSA. They assured him that, had the Russians […]

Dallas again

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: Dallas again Robin Ramsay The vast majority of serious JFK researchers think that the CIA was involved in the Kennedy assassination. An apparent difficulty with this is that the plot was leaky. Those with advance knowledge included Rose Cheramie (who heard about it from two minor criminals with whom she was doing a heroin […]

Miscellaneous reviews

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[PDF file]: […] from the scene hours before the plane was officially ‘found’.) Culprits? Many interests had reason to want Hammarskjold dead: the French, dickering in Central Africa; the Americans (CIA), obsessed with the red menace, who thought this meddling Swede was a bit pink; South Africa, afraid that the UN would encourage African nationalism in the […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] CE399. How did JFK get a back wound, about an inch deep, which contained no bullet? Holt told us that in the months before the assassination his CIA unit was modifying Mannlicher-Carcano rounds. ‘John Masen sent us several hundred bullets to be reloaded, according to very unusual specifications, which, at first glance, appeared to […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] threat of violence offered to them.’ 6 (emphases added) * For the second time Ambrose Evans-Pritchard had an article in the Daily Telegraph pointing out that the CIA was the initial promoter of the European Union.7 ‘The European Union always was an American project. It was Washington that drove European integration in the late […]

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