JFK’s assassination: a big new book and a strange memoir

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 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 – […]

Inside the AARB, Volume IV Douglas by P. Horne

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[…] summarise here, and 167 Summer 2010 they have been debated hotly before Horne even got to them. What seems incontestable is Horne’s finding that the National Photo Intelligence Center in Washington received the Zapruder film from a CIA lab at Kodak in Rochester, and that the anonymous ‘Bill Smith’ who delivered it said it […]

Reading between the lies: Edward Jay Epstein and Lee Harvey Oswald’s ‘Historic Diary’

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] I did correspondence, etc.’ This is interesting because the Allied occupation of West Germany ended in May 1955, leaving four more years unaccounted for in Dr Lewinson’s intelligence career pre-CIA. (Dr Lewinson remarks that she spent five years in Munich at some time during this 1946-59 period.) The apparent implication is that Dr Lewinson’s […]

THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] involved his lawyers (one of whom was Alan Dershowitz) but also the FBI (then headed by Robert Mueller). Acosta later said that he had been informed by intelligence sources that Epstein was an asset and to go easy on him. Acosta went on to serve in the Trump administration as Secretary of Labor. Not […]

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

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the other hand, if you want a 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.

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] The so-called ‘colour revolutions’ in the former Soviet satellites are presented as unproblematic with no hint of covert US influence conveyed. The political weight of the military-industrial- intelligence complex in US domestic politics is not mentioned. But these are relatively minor details in the broad sweep of his narrative. In the end, after the […]

Nixon’s Nuclear Specter by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] had any impact on their recipients in terms of altering their behaviour – not even the alarms triggered by the Able Archer exercise, which a lone Russian intelligence officer decided to ignore.1 Often these nuclear threats and alerts have been described as essential to US credibility. That magic word was also used in 2008, […]

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