Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Almost everyone who knew Whitson well believed he was working for some branch of the CIA, operating in various parts of the world as an anti-communist penetration agent and fixer. O’Neill writes, ‘Once he’d consumed me, I found myself fixating on possibilities that I would’ve dismissed as insane only months before.’ CHAOS and COINTELPRO […]

The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme MacQueen

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] produced evidence that fundamentally undermined the FBI’s case against Ivins. MacQueen tells us that newspaper picture editor Stevens was a very old friend of the Florida estate agent who found homes for some of the alleged 9/11 plane hijackers. This is one of a large series of coincidences he cites in support of his […]

Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a single instance of anti-Semitism; and given my experience perhaps I should have. As the Labour Party organiser in Leeds in the 1990s, and the full time agent for the Jewish Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (PPC) for Leeds North East, Fabian Hamilton, I might reasonably have expected to hear something unpleasant. Following the Blairite ascendency, […]

Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Hunt, two senior ex-CIA officers, joined ex-FBI Gordon Liddy in ‘the plumbers’.4 The author can’t quite demonstrate that Hunt, and/or McCord, and/or Eugenio Martinez (a CIA contract agent, also in ‘the plumbers’), told the CIA what they were doing out of the White House basement. But it would be a surprise if none of […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] given the chance, the FO shut it down. Curiously enough, no sign of said ‘complex operation’ has ever been made visible, not even in Crozier’s memoir Free Agent. Was Libya responsible for the killing of PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984? In one of Tony Gosling’s many e-mails was a timely reminder of the 1996 […]

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