Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

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[PDF file]: […] trap’ and photographed in compromising positions at Moscow’s Grand Hotel. At the urging of his friend and neighbor Frank Wisner, former head of covert operations for the CIA, Alsop privately came clean to both the CIA and FBI. Senior Eisenhower administration officials, who resented Alsop’s public derision of the President and his irresponsible scare-mongering […]

007’s real mission continues

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[PDF file]: […] details, blurring the line between fiction, non-fiction and reality. I first came across a 1948 newspaper article about the real James Bond while researching the background of CIA bursar Cummins Catherwood, a multimillionaire whose Catherwood Foundation was used to finance CIA covert 4 operations. Catherwood’s Fund also paid for the construction of a sailing […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] details, blurring the line between fiction, non-fiction and reality. I first came across a 1948 newspaper article about the real James Bond while researching the background of CIA bursar Cummins Catherwood, a multimillionaire whose Catherwood Foundation was used to finance CIA covert 4 operations. Catherwood’s Fund also paid for the construction of a sailing […]

Misc reviews

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[…] 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 […]

Kelly Bond 007 text

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[…] details, blurring the line between fiction, non-fiction and reality. I first came across a 1948 newspaper article about the real James Bond while researching the background of CIA bursar Cummins Catherwood, a multimillionaire whose Catherwood Foundation was used to finance CIA covert 4 operations. Catherwood’s Fund also paid for the construction of a sailing […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

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[PDF file]: […] But it’s difficult to see how MOSSAD agents could remain undetected in a closed society like Iran. Later, sections of an increasingly divided Iranian media suggested the CIA were to blame. But as New York Times journalist James Risen has revealed, the CIA has been a busted flush in Iran for over a decade. […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] no idea what to do.’ Finally, in the world of the spooks we come to Gina Haspel, who: ‘. . . personally supervised the torture of a CIA detainee in 2002 leading to at least three waterboard sessions, subsequently drafted the cable that ordered destruction of the videotape evidence of torture, and served as […]

Deception and distraction strategies relating to the John F Kennedy Assassination

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] extraterrestrials. Mr Speriglio said that this document had been passed to him by UFOlogist Timothy Cooper, who in turn claims to have received it from a retired CIA counterintelligence officer.2 Mr Speriglio’s document is supposedly a CIA eavesdropper’s summary of a telephone call between popular columnist Dorothy Kilgallen and her friend Howard Rothberg, a […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] the US of having ‘labs across Ukraine . . . secretly developing biological weapons’.2 *new* Encounter Lobster readers are probably familiar with the story of how the CIA secretly funded Encounter magazine, a publication that promoted the Gaitskelite wing of the Labour Party. Less well known is the fact that there was other, also […]

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[…] the US of having ‘labs across Ukraine . . . secretly developing biological weapons’.2 *new* Encounter Lobster readers are probably familiar with the story of how the CIA secretly funded Encounter magazine, a publication that promoted the Gaitskelite wing of the Labour Party. Less well known is the fact that there was other, also […]

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