The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] and gooey stuff and slippery stuff – conceals the real agenda, the development of various form of energy weapons. There was a big conference – billed ‘ secret US only’ – in June this year, a ‘Detailed review of directed energy warfare’. The final session consisted of presentations of work in progress within the […]

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Old spooks’ tales

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

Old spooks’ tales John Loftus is probably best known in this country for his The Belarus Secret (Penguin 1983). His latest, The Secret War against the Jews, contains the largest number of new allegations, and alleged revelations about the post-war era, of any book I have read. However, many of these new claims are […]

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The miners and the secret state

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 The miners and the secret state * Robin Ramsay In his 1987 book Spycatcher former MI5 officer Peter Wright revealed one of MI5’s biggest secrets; but focused as we were on his comments about the plotting against Harold Wilson, we didn’t initially notice the section on page 175 where he wrote […]

Ritual America Secret Brotherhoods and their influence on American society A Visual Guide by Adam Parfrey and Craig Heimbichner

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: Ritual America Secret Brotherhoods and their influence on American society A Visual Guide Adam Parfrey and Craig Heimbichner Feral House, 2012, $29.95 This is a big book. With 335 pages just a fraction under A4 sized, this weighs over 4 lbs. It is indeed a ‘a visual guide’ with hundreds of fascinating illustrations, photographs […]

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: Beyond Bugliosi: the Manson murders revisited CHAOS Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties Tom O’Neill (with Dan Piepenbring) London: Heinemann, 2019, £20 (h/b) David Black Hollywood Horrors In March 1999, as the thirtieth anniversary of the Manson murders approached, Tom O’Neill was assigned by the movie magazine, Premiere, to […]

Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy by Rory Cormac

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: Disrupt and Deny Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy Rory Cormac Oxford University Press: 2018, £20.00, h/b Robin Ramsay First things first: this is very good and anyone interested in our secret services, post-WW2 British history, or British colonial history, let alone the actual subject matter implied by the […]

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War Craig Whitlock New York: Simon and Schuster, 2021, £20, h/b John Newsinger The reporting across the British media on both the collapse of the Afghan regime and the defeat of the U.S. and its allies has been a total disgrace. Where was the discussion of […]

Secret History: Writing the Rise of Britain’s Intelligence Services by Simon Ball

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: SECRET HISTORY Writing the Rise of Britain’s Intelligence Services Simon Ball London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. Around £17.00 p/b Robin Ramsay In the last 30 years or so academic writing on intelligence services in this country has gone from being a non-subject to an enormous field, far too big for any one person […]

Using the Freedom of Information Act to keep things secret

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: Using the Freedom of Information Act to keep things secret Colin Challen With the start date for fracking near the North Yorkshire village of Kirby Misperton almost upon us, there has been a marked increase in police activity in the area, with convoys of police vans driving around the narrow lanes surrounding the site. […]

Secret Life of Uri Geller:CIA masterspy? by Jonathan Margolis

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: The higher strangeness Secret Life of Uri Geller:CIA masterspy? Jonathan Margolis London: Watkins, 2013, £8.99, p/b This is the second book about Geller by Margolis. The first, in 1998, was a biography, Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic? Writing that, Margolis began as a sceptic – assuming Geller was a fraud, essentially – and ended […]

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