Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust, and, US Intelligence and the Nazis

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust Ed. David Bankier New York: Enigma Books, 2006. p/b, $23 US Intelligence and the Nazis Richard Breitman et al New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, p/b, £16.99   On 11 January 1943, the British intercepted ‘one of the most extraordinary messages’ of the war at Bletchley Park: it referred ‘to … Read more

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Letter from America. Rand Corporation. Kennedys. Pentagon. Oklahoma. Garrisonia

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

Free Ride Department Meanwhile the Rand Corporation (that liberal think tank in Santa Monica which helps decide which Russian cities should be atom-bombed) has declared that the federal government must continue to support an obscure military satellite system known as Global Positioning Network. Much beloved by high-tech hikers and rental car enthusiasts, the GPS supposedly … Read more

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The Kincora scandal and related subjects

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] Arise, Sir Gay — Phoenix, 8 May 1987, p. 6. A captain’s tale of horror — Mervyn Pauley, News Letter, 24 November 1989 pp. 8-9. Licence to kill? — Sunday Life 4 February 1990, pp. 8-9. Some addresses that may be useful: Fortnight 7 Lower Crescent, Belfast BT7 1NR Irish News 113 Donegal Street, […]

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An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] research by an individual? I cannot think of one. Some of this material was presented in greater detail in Pepper’s first book on the case, Orders to Kill (reviewed in Lobster 32). This new account briefly reruns that and adds much new information and an account of the successful civil trial Pepper brought against […]

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The Last Supper: The Mafia, the Masons

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

The Last Supper: The Mafia, the Masons and the killing of Roberto Calvi Philip Willan London: Robinson, 2007, £7.99, p/b   Willan wrote the wonderful The Puppet Masters about post-war Italian politics and this is more of the same, a smaller patch examined in more detail. Never mind the subtitle: yes, he does reexamine the … Read more

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NATO’s Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] Was the formal NATO control – meetings and a NATO management structure – real? Did the Turkish state get permission from this management to use Gladio to kill thousands of people? Were the killings taking place in Belgium only a few miles from NATO HQ being directed by NATO personnel? If they were, this […]

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Harassment by the state

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

Here are two articles about the ongoing harassment of individuals by unidentified forces within the state. Malcolm Kennedy (see Lobsters 39 and 41 and 43) is being harassed by having his attempts to create a business sabotaged because some policemen are afraid of what he experienced. In another society he would be killed or disappear. … Read more

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Big Boys Rules

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Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

Mark Urban Faber and Faber, London, 1992, £14.99 In recent months there has been the remarkable sight of the weight of the British state descending upon Channel 4 TV and the production company Box in retaliation for the Box/Channel 4 programme alleging military and intelligence collaboration between the British state and the Protestant paramilitaries in … Read more

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Spooks

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

Gecas and Special Branch A wonderful example of the reach and power of intelligence connections was provided in January. Why did the British state refuse to extradite Anton Gecas, the WW2 Lithuanian war criminal, to the Soviet Union in 1976? Turns out not only had Gecas worked for SIS at the end of WW2, he’d … Read more

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Death of the Strong Man

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] Premier Indira Gandhi was assassinated in 1984 by Sikh members of her bodyguard, and two Sikhs were jailed at Birmingham Crown Court in 1986 for plotting to kill Rajiv Gandhi during a state visit to Britain. (5). Sikh separatists also joined the mojahedin in attending the WACL 11th annual conference in Luxembourg in 1986, […]

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