Coach into pumpkin: some problems with Paget

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] Notes Online (PDF format) at Full text reproduced at Despite the general rubbishing of former SIS officer Richard Tomlinson and his allegations about an SIS proposal to assassinate Milosevich, the SIS officer he named did indeed recall that he had proposed the assassination of an unnamed Balkan politician and that the document recording this […]

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

Diana – the saga goes on and on..… Almost ten years after the fatal crash and the Diana industry still trundles along. In addition to her birthday concert(1) we are promised a slew of books(2)and a plethora of films and documentaries.(3) The main event, though, is sure to be the long-delayed but much anticipated inquest, … Read more

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Cold War Stories

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

US deception operation blowback The e-newsletter stuff (1) ran this fascinating piece around 15 March. ‘At the Princeton conference last Saturday, Raymond Garthoff, a distinguished historian now with the Brookings Institute and a former CIA analyst, mentioned that we had recently learned of an FBI-Army double agent operation that may have spurred the Soviets to … Read more

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

Alien baloney In Nexus vol 6 no 2 is another dollop of what seems to me to be obvious disinformation about UFOs and the US government. Another batch of MJ-12 documents have surfaced in America, given to a researcher called Timothy Cooper by a (now conveniently dead) source. Nexus prints some largish chunks from them. … Read more

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Out of the blue and into the black

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

Into the Dark Johnston Brown Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2006, £22.99, h/b   When Fred Holroyd first made his disclosures regarding the activities of SAS Captain Robert Nairac to Duncan Campbell of The New Statesman in 1984, they were credible because Holroyd was a loyal Army Intelligence Captain with absolutely no sympathies for IRA terrorism. … Read more

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Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission failed the nation and why

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

Gerald D. McKnight Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2005, 478pps, $29.95.   The commonly accepted view is that the Warren Commission was a prisoner of its sources (i.e. the FBI) and that, coupled with a notable lack of general curiosity (‘We’re supposed to closing doors around here, not opening them,’ quoth Wesley J. Liebler), … Read more

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Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA Jim Hougan (Random House, US 1984) Those who read Hougan’s last book Spooks will know that the arrival or a new one is something of an event. As expected, his latest has so many trails to follow, intriguing little titbits to ponder that one read is insufficient … Read more

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Ten Thirty Three: The Inside Story of Britain’s Secret Killing Machine in Northern Ireland

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] and, of course, Douglas Hogg, then a junior Home Office minister, had publicly fingered solicitors sympathetic to republicanism. More successful was FRU disapproval of UDA plans to assassinate Gerry Adams. In the end, what brought Nelson down was the RUC Special Branch’s investigation into the loyalist murder gangs. They established a link between loyalist […]

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9/11’s Trainer in Terrorism Was an FBI Informant

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[…] its contents: Ali Mohamed manipulated the FBI, CIA and U.S. Army on behalf of Osama bin Laden. Mohamed trained terrorists how to hijack airliners, bomb buildings and assassinate rivals. uring much of this time Mohamed was … , an operative for the CIA and FBI, and a member of the U.S. Army.(6) … Mohamed […]

Defending the Warren Commission:the line from Langley

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

Introduction In 1967 the CIA sent out to ‘Chiefs, Certain Stations and bases’ a briefing document, Dispatch Document 1035- 960, titled ‘Countering Criticism of the Warren Report’. This unintentionally very revealing and faintly comic document was reproduced in issue 2 of the now defunct newsletter, The Dorff Report in March 1990. In view of the … Read more

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