‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] Conference, cited by Le Caballac p. 35. The source in question says that the North Koreans originally arrested Moon for heretical teachings and because ‘he was a spy for the President of South Korea’. See Matczak, p. 7. Normally, one would assume that this was merely proferred as a post facto justification for his […]

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Rebel, rebel

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Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

British Spies and Irish Rebels British Intelligence and Ireland, 1916-1945 Paul McMahon Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2008, h/b, £30 First up, I have no specialist knowledge of this area, so if there any howlers in here, I’m unlikely to spot them. However, I know a good book when I see one. This has been … Read more

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The death of Diana: an update

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] Henri Paul was ‘…on the MI6 files for three years.’ (Tim Reid, ‘Al Fayed accuses Duke of plotting to murder Diana’, The Times 23 November 1999.) ‘Ex- spy claims Diana’s driver an informer’, Glasgow Herald 19 May 1999, p.3. Tomlinson wrote to Mohammed Al-Fayed about his theories in July 1998. ‘I subsequently learned that […]

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The Trouble With Harry: A memoire of Harry Newton, MI5 agent

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] printed a full account of the story; In it Cathy Massiter, a former MI5 officer, blew the whistle on MI5 activities and named Harry Newton as a spy within the labour movement. (Tribune of March 1 printed a transcript of some of the programme.) Massiter said she was put in charge of the surveillance […]

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MI5: New Threats for Old? Turning up the Heat: MI5 after the Cold War

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] sleight of hand. MI5 may have secret sources – but so do the police and Special Branch. Nor do MI5 have any ‘secret techniques’: other agencies bug, spy, bribe, recruit and subvert. MI5’s special little number was the ability of its personnel to remain unidentified: when they do have to appear in courts of […]

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Web update

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] Archives etc); Historical Espionage (eg Venona prog) and SIGINT (eg Bletchley, Enigma); Other historical docs (MI5 and SOE); Ames Affair; debates and controversy (eg CIA as economic spy, budget of the IC, drug smuggling and the CIA). US Military Intelligence Sites http://www.loyola.edu/dept/politics/milintel.html ‘This is an unofficial website for researchers, students, and interested browsers…’ Huge […]

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Remote Viewing

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

Tim Rifat Century Books, London, 1999 £17.99 I was enormously disappointed to discover that this non-fiction book, which has printed on its cover, ‘The History and Science of Psychic Warfare and Spying’, not only lacks an index, it contains no meaningful references. Occasionally the reader comes across some scant footnotes; but the bulk of the … Read more

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Hitler’s Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, New York University Press, 1998, £l7.95 Savitri Devi – real name Maximiani Portas; she was part Greek, part French – is an odd subject for a biography. This is someone of little importance to anyone other than extreme environmentalists and/or the ultra-right. Even the title is misleading. She never met Hitler (so cannot, … Read more

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Remote Viewers, and, Psychic Warrior

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies Jim Schnabel Dell (USA) 1997, $5.99 Psychic Warrior David Morehouse Michael Joseph, London, 1996, £16.99   I approached the Jim Schnabel book with some caution. A number of people, including Armen Victorian, are intensely suspicious of Schnabel’s activities in the UFO/paranormal fields: some suspect him of … Read more

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First supplement to ‘A Who’s Who of the British Secret State’

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] appeared in the original edition. This is additional information. A further list of corrections will appear in a future issue. (WIA) Material taken from the documentary ‘The Spy Who Never Was’ about Peter Wright on World in Action ITV 16 July 1984. Not all the names supplied by Wright were mentioned or published. I […]

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