A Letter from Kenn Thomas

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] it in an issue that for the first time advertised copies of Qadhafi’s Green Book. That should be enough to have Mr. Roads register as a Libyan agent, even though in other instances Nexus has, for instance, reviewed books which explicitly condemn CIA nation-building involvement in the creation of Qaddafy’s state. Best, Kenn Thomas […]

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The Enemy Within: Thatcher’s Secret War Against the Miners; GB84

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] striking Yorkshire miners; an account of the crucial role of the senior administrative officer of the NUM, based on the widely-held view that Roger Windsor was MI5 agent; and a brutal portrayal of the machinations and skulduggery which characterise the black underbelly of state politics. Most of the leading actors in this drama are […]

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Ratlines: how the Vatican’s Nazi networks betrayed Western intelligence to the Soviets

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] criminals were printed at the Franciscan printing press in Rome. Both the US Counter Intelligence Corps CIC) and Britain’s military intelligence knew what was happening. Indeed, CIC agent Robert Mudd had a spy within Dragonovic’s organisation. The CIC arranged a burglary of Dragonovic’s office and photographed his records. Mudd concluded that “all this activity […]

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Looking for Trouble: The Life and Times of a Foreign Correspondent

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

Richard Beeston Brassey’s, London and Washington, 1997 no price stated This is worth skimming through, especially for the early 1950s period when Beeston was very close to SIS operations in the Middle East. These early chapters convey very clearly how the patriotic British journalist of the period rubbed shoulders with his country’s ‘secret agents’ and … Read more

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The CIA: A history of torture

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] guerrillas and killed the following month. At the time of his death, both Uruguayan policemen and their victims testified to his role as a torturer. Another CIA agent, the Cuban Manuel Hevia Cosculluela, was later to reveal that Mitrione had once tortured four homeless men to death as a demonstration for his Uruguayan students. […]

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Our Secret Servants: the Shayler affair

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] far right The first was the tale of Andy Carmichael who described in the Sunday Times (27 July 1997) his ‘five years as a fully salaried MI5 agent’ inside the National Front (NF). According to Carmichael, the National Front, in the guise of National Democrats, had planned to disrupt the Referendum Party’s General Election […]

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Weather wars? (US Military weather modifications)

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] Yugoslav newspaper. Are the US military stupid enough to monkey around with the world’s weather? Of course they are! These are the people who sprayed Vietnam with Agent Orange and are now spraying Colombia with a nasty herbicide made by…………why Monsanto, of course! If the article by the Yugoslav academics is accurate, the potential […]

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Splinter Factor

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

In the collection, Contemporary British History 1931-61, reviewed in this issue, there is an essay by Richard Aldrich of Salford University, one of the small but growing numbers of British academics trying to incorporate the activities of the intelligence and security services into post-war British history. In his essay on the Special Operations Executive (SOE) … Read more

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Training other people’s police forces

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

This is the text of a paper read by Jonathan Bloch at a meeting of the Campaign Against the Arms Trade in London in June 1985. The purpose of this paper is to examine selected aspects of British involvement in the training of foreign police personnel both here and abroad. Not much research has been … Read more

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Combat 18 and MI5: some background notes

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

Observers of the activities of the neo-nazi Combat 18 (C18), otherwise known as the National Socialist Alliance (NSA), have been treated to some bewildering documents and allegations recently. In an attempt to clarify who is saying what, and why, I will examine the origins and initial purpose of C18, the role (if any) of alleged … Read more

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