Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] in the cells of that group that we could prevent actions because of the credibility of our source.’ This is reminiscent of the comment by former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter that, ‘British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team our man is the […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
The Brittle Society Alarmists, like Naomi Wolf, have been exaggerating the degree to which the US, and by implication the UK, have been slipping towards a police state. The evidence for true tyranny in either country is weak. However, since it came to power in 1997, it might be reasonably argued(1) that New Labour has … Read more
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. Both inside and outside the U.S. narcotics enforcement is particularly susceptible to corruption. It is also inescapably a political matter, especially in those areas of covert intelligence and operations which, up to now, have been concerns of the CIA. It is undeniable that DEA has picked up at least … Read more
Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££
The Dirty War Martin Dillon, Hutchinson, London, 1990. The SAS in Ireland Raymond Murray, Mercier Press, Cork and Dublin, 1991 Martin Dillon is a freelance journalist in Northern Ireland with a long career behind him: editor and radio presenter for the BBC in Northern Ireland, co-author of the Penguin Special, Political Murder In Northern Ireland … Read more
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] the people who had attended its early meetings, among whom was….. David Moller. Now join up the dots. Hanky-panky in the British UFO world The former Searchlight agent provocateur, Tim Hepple, is now cruising the British UFO world under the guise of ‘Tim Matthews’ of the ‘Lancashire UFO Society’. A major attempt to spread […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] ‘report’ is a seemingly interminable expression of faux surprise at other regimes’ xenophobic resentment towards foreign spies, black propaganda, heavily funded ‘protest groups’ and media, consultants and agent provocateurs fomenting civil unrest with the overthrow of the state as their aim. The Lugar Report’s sources are all within the NED ‘family,’ thus engendering that […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] for Menzies and possibly for underground dealings with Germans willing to discuss peace such as Admiral Canaris, the Abwehr chief, Hermann Goering (whose chauffeur was a Swedish agent), the SS intelligence boss Walter Schellenberg or, at the end of the war, Heinrich Himmler. (De Courcy told me that he had met Himmler and thought […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] Hollywood movies, Turkey has put its own spin on espionage and made its most expensive movie ever – Valley of the Wolves – which follows an intelligence agent as he travels to Iraq to avenge the death of a Turkish soldier. The Times 17 February 2006. PRs always look to the major set pieces […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] break Communist control of the French docks during the first Indochina War, to support a string of anti-Communist puppets in Southeast Asia. But as a former CIA agent and publicist confirms, this intelligence-Mafia connection was seen as vitally important. Nixon himself has left office, and the public style of his two successors has been […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
Francis Beckett and David Hencke London: Constable, 2009, h/b, £18.99 This is quite interesting and impressive; but with a strange spin. There is a lot of (to me) new detail on the impact of the event on the Labour Party and trade unions, on money given to the NUM from other unions and on attempts … Read more