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[…] of guarding nuclear weapons. “Who guards the guards?” … well, the 14th did. When the KGB gave a copy of the East German Stasi files to the CIA (just to stick it to the Germans one last time), it turned out that at any time, the Communist Bloc had some 200,000 spies in Western […]

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[…] this would be as good a place as any to start. However, neither Armstrong nor Unz mention Chauncey Holt in their accounts. Holt’s role – as unwitting CIA technical support in the assassination conspiracy – means that the story must include both LBJ and the Agency. The only Agency figure to have talked of […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] John Simkin – who initiated the whole thing – wrote a very good summary of the case for the CIA-dunnit scenario of Kennedy’s death. In this, the CIA organised the assassination because Kennedy was 15 or 16 That evidence was a study published in Antiviral Research. See . See below under subhead UfOs over […]

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[…] this would be as good a place as any to start. However, neither Armstrong nor Unz mention Chauncey Holt in their accounts. Holt’s role – as unwitting CIA technical support in the assassination conspiracy – means that the story must include both LBJ and the Agency. The only Agency figure to have talked of […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] neighbours, and to unite our strength to maintain international peace Continues at the foot of the next page. political dissent, coordinated by the FBI (e.g. COINTELPRO) and CIA but ultimately initiated and maintained by the major corporate conglomerates whose central goal was to perpetuate the military-industrial gravy train that World War II brought them.3 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] John Simkin – who initiated the whole thing – wrote a very good summary of the case for the CIA-dunnit scenario of Kennedy’s death. In this, the CIA organised the assassination because Kennedy was getting too friendly with Castro. Simkin recounts some of the informal contacts between Castro’s people and various deniable Americans, notably […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] the realms of their own minds.’ 2 (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. ‘The European Union always was an American project. It was Washington that drove European integration in 2 Danny […]

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[…] faked claims that he was still hiding illicit arms, Gideon Rose, ’How Iraq Happened: Washington’s Fateful Misreading of Saddam’ 11 Ghost Wars: The Secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001, reviewed in Lobster 48. 12 4 he reasoned, what did this imply? It meant […]

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[…] their conspiracy to oust him from power. He saw no reason to play their game or deal with their prying inspectors.’ But Saddam Hussein was correct: the CIA did indeed know they had no WMDs. I noted in Lobster 86 that two former CIA analysts had recently been talking ‘How Iraq Happened:Washington’s Fateful Misreading […]

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[…] their conspiracy to oust him from power. He saw no reason to play their game or deal with their prying inspectors.’ But Saddam Hussein was correct: the CIA did indeed know they had no WMDs. I noted in Lobster 86 that two former CIA analysts had recently been talking ‘How Iraq Happened:Washington’s Fateful Misreading […]

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