Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America James Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Yale University Press, London and Yale, 1999, £19.95 The Haunted Wood: Soviet espionage in America – the Stalin era Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev Random House, New York, 1999, $30.00 So now we know: most of what the Republican right in the US, […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] also opposed by former head of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Thomas Moorer; beltway luminary the late Clark Clifford; former Secretary of State Dean Rusk; guardedly by former CIA chief Richard Helms; and by the surviving crew, who have maintained an active campaign for a congressional inquiry. Former Sunday Times chief reporter and broadcaster, Peter […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] the U.S. intelligence estimating process; (2) but I also read books about UFOs. Both are part of political reality as I see it. Indeed both overlap: the CIA is certainly interested in UFOs. A loose alliance of intelligence officers in America, led by a CIA officer named Ron Pandolphi, has spent the last 20 […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
From Ian Cameron Since reading certain recent somewhat naff offhand Lobster comments (1) in connection with the reissue of Gordon Carr’s Angry Brigade by Christie Books, I’ve looked at the book and a few other bits’n’pieces. So, it all led nowhere, and rightly so? Lobster isn’t the first and won’t be the last to mythologise. […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] though the blizzard of writs which followed its publication may have something to do with that.) In January the American researcher Mike Ruppert suggested that ‘………. the CIA bought all 50,000 copies of Scott’s book in 1972.’ Since I had read a library copy of Scott’s book many years ago, this seemed unlikely to […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] 12, 1980), a version taken from one put out in book form (though it would be a very thin book) by ‘Fighting Tigers’, a subsidiary of the CIA front company, Air America. This version contained material added to the original 1976 version. Gemstone also appeared in the American porno mag, the Hustler, in 1979, […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] was actually a sanitation team which had been sent from Department 4 of the Central Directorate – otherwise known as the Domestic Wet Operations Division of the CIA.’ ‘Wet operations’ used to the euphemism used by the KGB for assassination. Do we really believe the CIA uses the same euphemism? Do we believe the […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] to have been given the bum’s rush all the way down the ladder to Lobster. He told me a very strange story about his persecution by the CIA using ELF devices. My scepticism was modified by knowing of Anthony Verney’s experience, but I found it difficult to decide if my visitor was a genuine […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
Patriots not sneaks After a year of New Labour I feel beholden to write something on this subject, but what is there worth saying that isn’t blindingly and depressingly obvious and predictable? Jack Straw, who took over as Home Secretary, and thus formally as the boss of MI5, is determined to sedate any sleeping dogs […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
On 8 July the Foreign Minister, Robin Cook, announced that the Libyan Government accepted ‘general responsibility’ for the death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher and normal diplomatic relations with Libya were being restored. The media reporting of this accepted the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) spin that it meant the Libyans have admitted killing Fletcher. The […]
