Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] in view of his association with ‘appeasers, Russophobes and Petainists’. He was also suspect because of his persistent efforts through the cultivation of British contacts to gather secret information which might find its way into enemy hands via friends in neutral diplomatic circles abroad. I met de Courcy on three occasions while researching my […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] Italian left.” I could be wrong but my ‘nose’ tells me this will turn out to be a major lead. Not that the Kennedy ‘apertura’ was a secret. As soon as I checked some of the basic texts on the Kennedy administration (Schlesinger’s One Thousand Days, for example), there it is. Although there are […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] is able to make this preposterous claim only by completely ignoring the fact – which he must know very well – that Colin Wallace worked for the secret psychological operations unit, Information Policy. Broderick’s 1976 statement to the Civil Service Appeals Board mentioned Information Policy, letting the cat out of the bag. As a […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Below is a list of spooks, both dead and alive, I have spotted over the last eighteen months. Full biographical details will be […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies Jim Schnabel Dell (USA) 1997, $5.99 Psychic Warrior David Morehouse Michael Joseph, London, 1996, £16.99 I approached the Jim Schnabel book with some caution. A number of people, including Armen Victorian, are intensely suspicious of Schnabel’s activities in the UFO/paranormal fields: some suspect him […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] simply allegations. Me, I believe it. But this isn’t evidence. Even more interesting to me is the account given by ‘Special Branch’ of the thinking of our secret state personnel. “Stalker was becoming a pain to the security agencies, tantamount to a boil on the bum. The general consensus of opinion was that he […]
Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££
[…] disguised history of the CIA – or, at any rate, bits of it. McCarry is the best of the spook fiction writers. His previous books – The Secret Lovers, Tears of Autumn, and The Merniek Dossier, all feature a CIA agent named Paul Christopher (as does The Last Supper.) Christopher is a ‘singleton’, an […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
Apartheid’s friends: The rise and fall of South Africa’s secret service James Sanders London: John Murray, 2006, £11.99, p/b This is a tremendously impressive piece of work; and it’s big: 395 pages of text, another 100 pages of notes and sources and a decent index. I imagine that most of it will be […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the abuse of America’s intelligence agencies James Bamford, New York: Doubleday, 2004, h/back, $26.95 Ghost Wars: The Secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 Steve Coll New York: Penguin, 2004, h/back, $29.95 These books cover some […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] just how little we – i.e. Steve Dorril and I, who began working with Fred and Colin, and the world at large – knew about the British secret state and its activities in Northern Ireland in 1985. This was one of the problems faced by Fred and Colin: presented with their stories, most journalists […]
