Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue

[…] book but I have barely skimmed the Angels book. The CIA book reworks in extraordinary detail a number of the incidents in Oswald’s career as a CIA agent? asset? – which isn’t clear. The Angels book is about Cuba and the beginnings of the CIA’s attempts to overthrow Fidel Castro. It has no bearing […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s attempts to solicit campaign funds from Saddam Hussein’s ruling Ba’ath party, made through a French-Australian publisher go-between who was secretly a KGB agent and who stole the huge sum of money (some $3m by today’s value) that Iraqi intelligence paid into a Hong Kong bank account. The KGB agent […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] Russianfriendly accounts and Trumpkins has been going on for some time.” If that was true, it meant that anyone expressing support for Donald Trump might be an agent of the Russian government, whether or not the person intended to play that role. It meant that the people they called “Trumpkins,” who made up half […]

Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] the right man. The way this is framed in the book paints a picture, to my cynical mind, of Taylor being distinctly naïve: Some years ago my agent, Annabel Merullo of Peters Fraser and Dunlop, said it was time I wrote another book. I said I needed to find a suitable subject first. Astonishingly […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

Lobster Issue

[…] the right man. The way this is framed in the book paints a picture, to my cynical mind, of Taylor being distinctly naïve: Some years ago my agent, Annabel Merullo of Peters Fraser and Dunlop, said it was time I wrote another book. I said I needed to find a suitable subject first. Astonishingly […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] in Tara if SIS had an operational interest in its leader, William McGrath. And did SIS do ‘infiltration’? And what would ‘infiltration’ of Kincora mean? Planting an agent in the home? The two men said to have visited the source for the Express story and told him of paedophile parties in the south of […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

Lobster Issue

[…] the right man. The way this is framed in the book paints a picture, to my cynical mind, of Taylor being distinctly naïve: Some years ago my agent, Annabel Merullo of Peters Fraser and Dunlop, said it was time I wrote another book. I said I needed to find a suitable subject first. Astonishingly […]

Watergate Exposed How the President of the United States and the Watergate Burglars Were Set Up as told to Douglas Caddy, original attorney for the Watergate Seven by Robert Merrit

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: Watergate Exposed How the President of the United States and the Watergate Burglars Were Set Up as told to Douglas Caddy, original attorney for the Watergate Seven Robert Merrit Walterville (OR): TrineDay, 2011, 240 pages, index; p/b, (US) $19.95 www.TrineDay.net This is a very interesting bad book with a misleading title. It’s bad because little […]

Lob 82 View from Bits copy

Lobster Issue

[…] cynicism, but can never free themselves from Communist ideology”. The review was written by Rita Hinden, who was carefully selected for the task. Michael Josselson, the CIA agent who had set up the Congress for Cultural Freedom, had told Irving Kristol, the coeditor of Encounter, that he should run a review “by one of […]

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