Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] Rochemont as a conduit.() Having provided the money, the CIA also had ‘psy warrior’ Joseph Bryan () participate in early script conferences and monitor the filming. Another agent, Carleton Alsop, was on hand to view the film as it neared completion. Little wonder that the film’s ending differed from that of the book. ( […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)
[…] – with fascinating material on the fuzzy alleged 1963 assassination attempt on JFK planned for Chicago, and the role in exposing it of the black Secret Service agent, Abraham Bolden. Every time I come across Bolden I am reminded what a great story this is. First black Secret Service agent; after the assassination, seeking […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] was a dangerous and particularly nasty organisation. It also welcomed the National Front’s ‘political soldiers’ when they set up shop in Belfast; and Bingham served as election agent to George Seawright, a fascist and sectarian bigot who had even managed to get himself expelled from Paisley’s DUP. Seawright had come from Glasgow, where he’d […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)
[…] in the 1950s the Americans (and the British) knew very little about the Soviet Union and had almost no agents on the ground. How to get an agent into the Soviet Union must have been high on many agenda in the US intelligence community; defection was one obvious way of doing it; and sending […]