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[…] they? But this is small beer compared to the late Chauncey Holt who was photographed with Oswald in New Orleans while Oswald was giving out ‘Hands off Cuba’ leaflets5 and photographed on Dealey Plaza two hours after the shooting in the company of mob hit man Charles Harrelson.6 What will it take to persuade […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘Confessions of a Watergate Burglar’, True, August 1974, p. 74. Sturgis also said the team was looking for a Cuban memorandum on CIA and DIA operations against Cuba, including assassination plots, and information about O’Brien or other Democratic Party leaders profiting from kickbacks from concessionaires at the party convention. Presumably such information could be […]

To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] accounting firms specialised in producing deceptive balance sheets to undervalue companies for tax purposes. This practice was especially common for US corporations operating in Latin America, e.g. Cuba and Guatemala.17 The fraud was only exposed when nationalist governments in those countries tried to enforce compensation for eminent domain actions based on tax returns that […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Independent and the Independent on Sunday. He has conducted radio and television investigations into the fate of Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess, CIA sabotage of Leyland exports to Cuba, corruption in ammunition supply at the Ministry of Defence, breaking UN sanctions in Serbia for Marks and Spencer, the Owen Oyston Affair and Royal Navy espionage […]

Murder in Cairo

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[…] Independent and the Independent on Sunday. He has conducted radio and television investigations into the fate of Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess, CIA sabotage of Leyland exports to Cuba, corruption in ammunition supply at the Ministry of Defence, breaking UN sanctions in Serbia for Marks and Spencer, the Owen Oyston Affair and Royal Navy espionage […]

Finks: How the CIA tricked the World’s Best Writers by Joel Whitney

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and trying to stop Pablo Neruda winning the Nobel prize – with accounts of the Cuban revolution and its impact in South America, subsequent American actions against Cuba, Che’s death and the American-sponsored coups in Guatemala and Brazil. The CIA’s people in the literary field believed they were promoting the non-communist left (NCL to […]

America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity by Campbell Caig and Frederick Logevall

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] peace conference wrecked by the U-2 a year before. The authors’ reluctance to look at the m-i-c in action continues through their account of the invasion of Cuba – they do not tell us that the CIA planned to force Kennedy into supporting the invasion when it foundered – and into JFK’s assassination, where […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] in Dallas delivering handguns and fake IDs for what he believed was some kind of CIAorganised stunt which was intended to kibosh JFK’s desired rapprochement with Castro’s Cuba. Who might organise such a thing? Edward Lansdale is one obvious candidate. In a letter to Jim Garrison, Fletcher Prouty wrote: ‘Through 1962 and 1963, Mongoose […]

View from the bridge

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[…] something invisible. And this began almost 10 years ago. Yet this is the official US position as of 2023. Since US officials first reported AHIs in Havana, Cuba in late 2016, the IC has sought to understand whether these events can be attributed to a foreign actor and a deliberate external mechanism. The IC […]

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