The smearing of Colin Wallace

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 […]

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Like books we should have so many witnesses?: Some recent JFK literature

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] works by Epstein in an omnibus volume: Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of the Truth (1966), Counterplot: Garrison Against the World (1968), and Legend: the Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald (1978). Even if you have the three books already this edition is a must-get for the new introductions, afterwords and essays, […]

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The death of Diana: an update

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] to have been in Paris on the night of the crash was Richard Dearlove, the then Director of Operations. In 1998 he became Assistant Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service and the following February he succeeded Sir David Spedding as Chief. See Richard Norton-Taylor, ‘Spy chief comes out of shadows’, The Guardian 26 February […]

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Spooks

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 […]

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Publications

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] Avenue, Boston MA 02116 USA. $8 paper, $20 hardback. As far as I know there are no plans to publish it in the UK yet. The Belarus Secret John Loftus (Penguin, London 1983) Very impressive slim volume on the recruitment of the fascist members of the Byelorussian community by British and American intelligence shortly […]

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Operation Black Dog

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] first Bond-like rendezvous, but it would certainly be the most startling. We had agreed to meet in order that the source could tell me about a highly secret US operation known as ‘Black Dog.’ Neither of us trusted electronic communication and, therefore, a face-to-face meeting was essential. The meeting followed a story I had […]

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Afterword: the search for “Maurice Bishop”

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] Phillips/”Bishop”. Arguelles has written a book, The Cubans in the US: Displacement and Terror (Holt, Rinehart and Winston). (b) In 1983 Jim Hougan, author of Spooks and Secret Agenda, spoke with ex-CIA man Frank Terpil. He told Hougan that he knew Phillips but only under the cover name “Bishop”. Terpil says he met “Bishop” […]

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Print: Journals and book review

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 […]

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Electronic Privacy and the Encryption Debate

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] ensure new digital telecommunication systems do not hinder surveillance capabilities, and requiring the installation of monitoring capacity in these systems for national security/law enforcement purposes: ‘Acting in secret and without parliamentary knowledge or government supervision, the FBI through ILETS has since 1993 steered government and communications policy across the world. In the shadows behind […]

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Spooks UK

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] by the nickname ‘Lock-up’ – and will be in charge of security data flowing between the Joint Intelligence HQ at Stormont Castle and reports from MI5’s top secret F3 section which is responsible for Irish affairs. (Sunday World 27th May 1984) …. Number one spook in Northern Ireland is Robert John Andrew (56) who […]

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