Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, and, This Land: The Story of a Movement

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Those seeking a stronger antidote in these dark times can turn to Footnote 8 continued: However, The Washington Post will not knowingly disclose the identities of US intelligence agents, except under highly unusual circumstances which must be weighed by the senior editors.’ When I returned from the United States to work at The Guardian, […]

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

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for Grand Theft Auto’. According to ex-LASO detective Preston Guillory, Manson was never arrested ‘because our department thought he was going to attack the Black Panthers’ ( intelligence had revealed Manson’s shooting of Bernard Crowe). Guillory told O’Neill: ‘I believe there was something bigger Manson was working on. Cause a stir. Blame it on […]

Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine

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[…] the Cold War gathered momentum. The Western allies began to work hard to loosen the Soviet grip on eastern Europe and to this end British and American intelligence now started to back the OUNUPA struggle against Moscow. They provided logistical support and more Mark Aarons and John Loftus, Ratlines: How the Vatican’s Nazi Networks […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] former Saudi defence employee called Omar al-Bayoumi, who had arrived in 22 the US in 1994. Even before 9/11 the FBI had al-Bayoumi down as a Saudi intelligence officer, noting his ‘extensive ties to the Saudi Government’ and his extravagant personal spending despite being officially unemployed. Al-Bayoumi had a close personal friend (another Saudi […]

LBJ: the mastermind of JFK’s assassination by Phillip F. Nelson

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[…] military, anti-Castro Cubans, FBI, Oswald and Ruby, LBJ, ‘Mac’ Wallace….but not, apparently, the CIA. The CIA are almost entirely missing from this story. It’s the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) Mackenzie writes about frequently. For a JFK buff the oddity of Mackenzie’s account is the way he brings together a collection of minor trails – […]

Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison case by James DiEugenio

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] that X lied, or that the CIA screwed the inquiry, might not imply involvement in the assassination. Shaw and Ferrie had all manner of connections to US intelligence that they did not want to discuss; and Garrison’s inquiry was heading off into areas the CIA did not want examined: to name the obvious two, […]

The USA, China and a new Cold War?

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[PDF file]: […] into consumer goods and now is shifting fast into capital-intensive sectors based on high technology. The upshot has been rapid creation of a powerful telecommunications and artificial intelligence industry. China is in the vanguard of nations developing 5G technology, seen in the success of Huawei in penetrating international markets. This economic expansion has facilitated […]

Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ on Dealey Plaza

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of assassins based in Mexico, delicious though the idea is. 18 The single most striking element in his story is his account of being asked by his intelligence handlers (he says DIA but I’m sure it was CIA) to run a safe house in the circus he was working in, on the road – […]

The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into The Octopus and the Promis Software Scandal by Cheri Seymour

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[…] fascinating kaleidoscope of crimes and covert operations from the dark side of American life, facilitated by American moral hypocrisy and funded by the largely unregulated development of the military-industrial- intelligence complex, with enough ‘stories’ to keep a Sunday Times ‘Insight’ team going for decades, this is for you. RR Page 99 Summer 2011 Lobster 61

Hilda Murrell and the FOIA

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] holds any information which falls within scope of your request.’ However . . . exemption 23(5) can only be used when the information relates to fourteen specified intelligence, security and national policing bodies5 – only five of which were in existence at the time of Hilda Murrell’s murder: those five being MI5, MI6, GCHQ, […]

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