Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
1. Getting even more ugly I confess: I have given up buying Searchlight. There just isn’t anything that can be believed in it. In any case, other people send me the good bits – if ‘good’ is the right word. In June’s Searchlight this paragraph appeared; ‘Seasoned political observers in Northern Ireland say that the […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] is, firstly, a couple of chapters containing the most detailed and condensed information on the post-war dealings of the ultra right outside the files of the CIA, KGB, MI5/6 etc. At one point there is so much talk about the ‘Third Way’ and European unity that you could think you were reading a Downing […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
Jeffrey M. Bale In this essay, and the notes and sources that accompany it, there are many words from languages – French, Spanish, Portugese etc – which should have various accents on them. These accents have been omitted to simplify type-setting. This essay was first published in the Berkeley Journal of Sociology and is reprinted […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] away your enemy. The ‘terrorist threat’ in general, and this recent anarchist sub-theme, is being presented as a free-floating entity independent of Moscow Gold or control. The KGB line is close to being abandoned. The 1970s in Northern Ireland were really the last time our secret state seriously tried to market the Moscow connection, […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] UN peace keepers! 6. This eventually found its way into one of Jack Higgins’s more preposterous novels, namely Confessional, in which we all presumably root for the KGB hit-man trying to kill the Pope. (Sectarian joke!) 7. The Militants were founded by Davey Payne and John White around the time of Elliot and Fogel’s […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon, the CIA was virtually paralysed in the most important domain: countering the spread of misinformation by the KGB. When President Jimmy Carter, who succeeded Nixon, appointed Admiral Stansfield Turner, the CIA fired some 400 Soviet experts, on the spurious ground that they were no […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] so-called Team B exercise.(6) Then the Soviets were presented as the controllers of international terrorism, enabling the Israelis to label the Palestinians as terrorists, controlled by the KGB. This theme was launched at the Jonathan Institute conference of 1979 in Israel before being taken up by anti-detente groups within the US intelligence community. Yet […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] No wonder the likes of Brian Crozier and the other conspiracy theorists within the NATO intelligence services think that this must all be the work of a KGB plot. (And how frustrating it must be for them to find so little evidence! Crozier et al, suffer from acute, possibly terminal cases of projection. Since […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] Arthur Darling, The Central Intelligence Agency: An Instrument of Government to 1950, Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 1990, pp. 260-261. ‘Interfering with Civil Society: CIA and KGB Covert Political Action during the Cold War’, International Journal of Intelligence and Counter-intelligence, Vol. 8 No. 4, Winter 1995, p.434. The CIA and the Marshall Plan, […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] in which Epstein tries to prove that Oswald fell victim to an elaborate Soviet intelligence ‘honey trap’ while in Japan that led him to spy for the KGB. Shortly after Legend appeared in print, however, investigators for the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) interviewed some of Epstein’s purported sources. The interviews (many now […]