Miscellaneous: Cold war. Disinformation. Elite. Unclassified. G.K. Young, Unison

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

Feedback Mark Taha (see Lobster 21, p. 25) wrote. ‘As someone who never joined any of the groups Larry O’Hara deals with but has attended their meetings, reads their publications, once nearly joined, and describes himself as a Libertarian Conservative Nationalist, (sic!) I read his article with interested. I noticed a few errors. On page […]

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Bombing your way to the negotiating table?

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] the point that the cost of this single incident equalled the cost of all property damage caused by terrorists in NI over the previous 30 years. The IRA now realised that with just a couple more bombs they could bankrupt Pool Re and in effect bankrupt the government. So also did the government, and […]

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Publications

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] reported by the British media, which paid little attention to the later news that it was in fact identified as Eugene Simmons, thought to have been an IRA informer, who disappeared on New Year’s Day 1981. (Sunday News 20th May 1984) SD The Brotherhood of Eternal Love Stuart Tendler and David May (Granada, London […]

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Operation Brogue

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] in places. The bugging led to the discovery that Britain’s MI5 had recruited a group (numbers unspecified) of Irish Special Branch personnel, apparently to get information on IRA activities in Dublin. One of the MI5 recruiters was a ‘Michael’ who ‘posed as a civil servant dealing with security matters at Stormont Castle’. above led […]

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The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] killing, both on and off duty, of over 300 of their colleagues. One of the most controversial cases Simpson investigated was the dramatic kidnapping by the Provisional IRA of 45 year-old Thomas Niedermayer, a German national, who was the Managing Director of the Grundig electronics factory on the outskirts of Belfast. He had been […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££
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[PDF file]: […] of the Communist Party who were de facto agents of the USSR. 7 Another of MI5’s themes of the time – the Soviet Union behind the Provisional IRA – was the subject of another Stewart-Smith pamphlet published in 1976, written by John Biggs-Davison, at the time the Tory frontbench spokesman on Northern Ireland. (22) […]

Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] little dissatisfied. You could well describe Peter Taylor as ‘the spooks favourite conduit’. It is true that he has, occasionally, given unbiased coverage to members of the IRA and other such organisations. However, when it comes to the actions of the British state, he always leans toward the state’s version of events. (I give […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] little dissatisfied. You could well describe Peter Taylor as ‘the spooks favourite conduit’. It is true that he has, occasionally, given unbiased coverage to members of the IRA and other such organisations. However, when it comes to the actions of the British state, he always leans toward the state’s version of events. (I give […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

Lobster Issue

[…] little dissatisfied. You could well describe Peter Taylor as ‘the spooks favourite conduit’. It is true that he has, occasionally, given unbiased coverage to members of the IRA and other such organisations. However, when it comes to the actions of the British state, he always leans toward the state’s version of events. (I give […]

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] aided a quantitative explosion of disinformation? It might be a case of both, although Rid’s chapters devoted to the Russian (in theory non-governmental) Internet Research Agency ( IRA) suggest that efforts by Russians to influence the US elections of 2016 were largely unsuccessful because of a lack of quality, as well as quantity. The […]

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