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 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 26 (1993) £££
[…] the American people at a great cost to liberty.’ For thirty years the NSA obtained copies of most telex messages entering and leaving the U.S., and the CIA illegally intercepted thousands of first-class letters as they left the country. If the high-tech NSA were ever turned against us, Church said, ‘no American would have […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] what, is going on here. Finally, on 28th March Ken asked the junior MOD minister, Roger Freeman, “If he will provide details of the use of forged CIA documents by the armed forces in Northern Ireland from 1971 to the present date.”Consider the alternatives facing the civil servant who answered this. If the answer […]
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 22 (1991) £££
Tom Mangold (Simon and Schuster, London and New York, 1991) On things Angleton, Tom Mangold’s Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton (Simon and Schuster, London and New York, 1991) is very good but is not the biography it pretends to be. There is nothing on Angleton’s time in Italy after the war; and, even more extraordinary, […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
The Libyans and the death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher 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 […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] has interviews about JFK (and JFK) with Mark Lane, Dick Gregory, Kerry Thornley and Jim Marrs; a piece on alternative AIDS cures; pieces titled ‘KKK, GOP and CIA’ and ‘An American Nazi and Ozark tourism’ that are too obstruse to summarise here; a piece by the ubiquitous Robert Anton Wilson; and ‘Supermarket Tabloids and […]
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 the […]
