Philby naming names

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] Chancellor Julius Raabe, the prerequisites for the Governmental Agreement were made public, BIS did everything possible to discredit Raabe. During the 1950s the BIS created a very secret department which was named Special Political Actions (SPA). The range of problems presented to the SPA was very broad. I’d like to give an excerpt from […]

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Official and Confidential:The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover

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Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

Anthony Summers Gollancz, London, £18.99 Summers and his team of researchers have proved, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Hoover was gay and that he had been bought off and blackmailed by the Mob into ignoring organised crime. (I am less convinced by the evidence supporting the secondary allegations that Hoover was a transvestite.) Hoover, in … Read more

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The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and their Influence on Nazi Ideology

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Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke I.B.Tauris, London, 1992, £9.95. In his last paragraph the author concludes: ‘Books written about Nazi occultism between 1960 and 1975 were typically sensational and under-researched. A complete ignorance of the primary sources was common to most authors and inaccuracies and wild claims were repeated by each newcomer to the genre until an abundant … Read more

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Outlawing the Naming of Agents

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] a bill under which it would become illegal to claim that any individual is an officer or agent of either the Security Service (MI5) or of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). It was also made known that the publication of British Intelligence and Covert Action last year was considered provocative in this respect. The […]

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Lying about Iraq

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] was the refusal of Britain’s spies to disclose what they knew about their Iraqi counterparts that led to the fiasco surrounding the latest British dossier.’ Michael Smith, ‘Secret service stand on sources led to blunder’, Daily Telegraph, 8 February, < http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/main jhtml?xml=/news/2003/02/08/ndoss 108.xml/ > . 10 ‘Blair Acknowledges Flaws in Iraq Dossier’ < […]

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A review of the (bad) reviews of Smear! Wilson and the Secret State

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

It was very interesting being reviewed by the major media. While the left press – New Statesman, Tribune, Socialist et al – Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books and the non-metropolitan and Irish papers like it, we were slagged off by the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times, the Observer, the Independent; … Read more

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The New Public Diplomacy: Soft power in international relations

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] Jon Melissen London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, h/b, £50.00   Just after World War 1, a group of the liberal-left in Britain began campaigning against orthodox – i.e. secret – diplomacy. It had caused the mind-bogglingly stupid carnage of World War 1, they argued, and had to go. This was the Union for Democratic Control […]

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Stakeknife and Mad Dog

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

Stakeknife: Britain’s Secret Agents in Ireland Martin Ingram and Greg Harkin Dublin: The O’Brien Press: 2004, £8.99, p/back Mad Dog: The rise and fall of Johnny Adair and ‘C Company’ David Lister and Hugh Jordan Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2003, £15.99, h/back     Stakeknife is a former member’s account of some of the operations of […]

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Wizard: the life and times of Nikola Tesla

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] scientific pioneers had (and still have?) in investigating and trying to measure and define the ‘paranormal’.(6) He also concludes that there is, indeed, a ‘trail of top secret research …… which led to Star Wars’ which can be traced back to Tesla. Tesla died, aged 86, on 8 January 1943. A representative of RCA […]

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Friends of the British Secret State

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

William Massie With Chapman Pincher retired from the Express group of newspapers, somebody had to take up his position as the spooks’ number one outlet. That person appears to be one William Massie. His name has appeared on some interesting material recently: viz: 14th February 1988, front page story in the Sunday Express based on … Read more

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