Kincoragate: More Bodies

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

[…] as a pseudo-gang. It was directed from ‘Six’ local HQ in the Culloden Hotel at Craigavad, beside MI6 administrative HQ in Laneside House on Station Road. Michael Wright a young UDA man associated with McKeague, was killed in a mystery booby-trap explosion. UDA issued statement saying he was murdered by the Security Forces ‘dirty […]

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TO CATCH A SPY: How the Spycatcher Affair Brought MI5 in from the Cold by Tim Tate

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] I barely noticed Wright’s Soviet-spies-in-MI5 story which has been so thoroughly analysed, retold and updated by Tate. And what a story it is. To recap briefly: Peter Wright was an MI5 officer who believed that within MI5 there was a Soviet ‘mole’ in a very senior position. He believed this because MI5’s ops against […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
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[PDF file]: […] first from Colin Wallace, a member of the British Army’s psychological warfare unit in Northern Ireland, in whose narrative the ‘bad guys’ were MI5, and from Peter Wright, who had been an MI5 officer, those of us who began researching this period in 1986 and after began by looking for MI5 operations.264 In fact […]

The Defence of the Realm

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[…] Wright’s story in Spycatcher that MI5 knew about the covert Soviet funding of the CPGB in the 1950s and neither exposed it nor tried to stop it. Wright is rubbished repeatedly by Andrew and he does not refer to this claim of Wright’s. However on p. 403 he writes this: ‘The Security Service had […]

Spookaroonie!

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Wright’s story in Spycatcher that MI5 knew about the covert Soviet funding of the CPGB in the 1950s and neither exposed it nor tried to stop it. Wright is rubbished repeatedly by Andrew and he does not refer to this claim of Wright’s. However on p. 403 he writes this: ‘The Security Service had […]

The Cuntocracy

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] powerful, but they are 2 See Arthur Mitzman, The Iron Cage: An Historical Interpretation of Max Weber, (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1970). In Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills, From Max Weber (London: Routledge, 1946) pp. 41-42, after World War I, Weber basically called Ludendorff a useless fat cunt who should be hung. 3 […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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A  review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: INTERVIEW EUU Words Graeme Bowman Photographs Chris Blatt Behindology: the study of hard political realities obscured by layers of hype and spin. Britain’s leading professor on the subject, irascible Scot Robin Ramsay, publishes conspiracy theory magazine Lobster from his front room in Hull. Reading it may just change your view of the world … HO […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
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[PDF file]: […] than meets the eye. According to Falber, in 1958, the year the clandestine payments started, ‘MI5 were planning to break into house at Christmas’.4 According to Peter Wright, MI5 wanted the records of the Soviet transactions and thought Falber was keeping them. But the plan to burgle his house was foiled. Here is Wright’s […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

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[…] plot, or a parallel one. He also brought documentary evidence with him: mainly his 3 See . notes, made at the time. Both these sources were tainted. Wright had his grievance over his pension, and a general air of “flakiness”; and Wallace had just completed a gaol sentence for a manslaughter charge which he […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] either the same plot, or a parallel one. He also brought documentary evidence with him: mainly his notes, made at the time. Both these sources were tainted. Wright had his grievance over his pension, and a general air of “flakiness”; and Wallace had just completed a gaol sentence for a manslaughter charge which he […]

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