The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] Bug Democrats’ Office Here’. The story by police reporter Alfred E. Lewis began: Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency, were arrested at 2:30 a.m. yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee here. It […]

007’s real mission continues

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] Morgan and Nelson, loyal to the crown, who would reaffirm England as a world power, wipe out the shame of the Burgess-Maclean defections, and reestablish the Secret Intelligence Service as the most dangerous Secret Service . . . (pp. 403 and 445) 3 So the real mission of Ian Fleming’s Secret Agent 007, James […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Glen Sample writes on p. 178: During the research and investigation phase of this book I had the opportunity to communicate with a retired member of the intelligence community, who told me about an event he once attended, a luncheon at the Petroleum Club in San Antonio, in 1973. ‘I couldn’t pass up the […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Glen Sample writes on p. 178: During the research and investigation phase of this book I had the opportunity to communicate with a retired member of the intelligence community, who told me about an event he once attended, a luncheon at the Petroleum Club in San Antonio, in 1973. ‘I couldn’t pass up the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] General William Barr in 2019 to investigate the origins of the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. He was tasked to determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was ‘lawful and appropriate’. The appointment was an expression of the suspicion of some – the certainty of others – within […]

Lob 82 View from Bits copy

Lobster Issue

[…] General William Barr in 2019 to investigate the origins of the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. He was tasked to determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was ‘lawful and appropriate’. The appointment was an expression of the suspicion of some – the certainty of others – within […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Glen Sample writes on p. 178: During the research and investigation phase of this book I had the opportunity to communicate with a retired member of the intelligence community, who told me about an event he once attended, a luncheon at the Petroleum Club in San Antonio, in 1973. ‘I couldn’t pass up the […]

Trump, the US Military and the American Empire

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] New York: Penguin Press, 2019 Holding the Line: Inside Trump’s Pentagon with Secretary Mattis Guy M. Snodgrass New York: Sentinel (Penguin Random House), 2019 The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies Michael V. Hayden New York: Penguin Random House, 2019 Bluster: Donald Trump’s War on Terror Peter R. Neumann […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Glen Sample writes on p. 178: During the research and investigation phase of this book I had the opportunity to communicate with a retired member of the intelligence community, who told me about an event he once attended, a luncheon at the Petroleum Club in San Antonio, in 1973. ‘I couldn’t pass up the […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Sample writes on p. 178: During the research and investigation phase of this book I once had the opportunity to communicate with a retired member of the intelligence community. He related to me about an event he once attended, a luncheon at the Petroleum Club in San Antonio, in 1973. ‘I couldn’t pass up […]

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