THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

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[PDF file]: Conspiracy theories and conspiracy facts THEY KNEW How a Culture of Conspiracy keeps America Complacent Sarah Kendzior New York: Flatiron Books 2022 John Newsinger Sarah Kendzior is one of the most interesting commentators writing about contemporary America. Her two previous books, The View from Flyover Country (2018) and Hiding in Plain Sight (2020), are essential […]

Nixon’s Nuclear Specter by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] his Republican opponent, Barry Goldwater, over the nuclear issue and issued no nuclear threats during his presidency. President Carter raised the possibility of a nuclear attack on Iran during the hostage crisis. President Reagan presided over a massive nuclear build-up which came close to accidental thermonuclear war during the misinterpreted Able Archer alert. President […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] “put an office at disposal”. He also boasts of “dealings with the secret services of many other countries including France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Israel, Morocco, Iran, Argentina, Chile and Taiwan”. As early as p. 20 it is hard to avoid concluding that Crozier is describing how he was recruited by MI6; and […]

Blair Inc. by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan

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[PDF file]: […] known to be a strong backer of vocal Israel supporters John McCain and Joe Lieberman.The authors write: ‘Tony Blair is publicly signed up to Saban’s views about Iran and Israel. If that were not the case, it is most unlikely that Saban would be funding his Faith Foundation…. Money comes with strings attached. Tony […]

Murder in Cairo

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[PDF file]: Murder in Cairo Solving a Cold War Spy Mystery Peter Gillman and Emanuele Midolo with Leni Gillman London: Biteback Publishing, 2025, h/b, £20 Andrew Rosthorn This book is not to be missed. It has taken 48 years and two generations of Sunday Times reporters to get quite close to finding out who ordered the killing […]

The CIA and Radio Nord Simon

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] set on the Finnish front in the 40s. See the page ‘Tex Sallee and the Reynolds Chinese Expedition’ at or 6 1967. Reynold’s B-26 ended up in Iran in the mid 70s, where it was impounded after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Much of the above is culled from the internet, and the internet […]

Holding pattern

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[PDF file]: Holding pattern Garrick Alder Coincidence theories W ith the jury’s declaration of guilt in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, we can now move forward to the vital next step, which is to spend the rest of his sorry lifespan (and maybe longer) listening to lunatics claiming he was totally innocent and it […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

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[PDF file]: […] worked there before he went into intelligence, as had Kermit Roosevelt’s grandfather. (5) (Kermit Roosevelt, who is perhaps best known for his role in the coup in Iran) went round America’s largest corporations asking, “Are you patriotic?”, raising money for the CIA front companies and securing the use of their trusts and foundations. (6) […]

Murder in Cairo

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Murder in Cairo Solving a Cold War Spy Mystery Peter Gillman and Emanuele Midolo with Leni Gillman London: Biteback Publishing, 2025, h/b, £20 Andrew Rosthorn This book is not to be missed. It has taken 48 years and two generations of Sunday Times reporters to get quite close to finding out who ordered the killing […]

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