The View From The Bridge

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] Vialls. Joe Who? Joe Vialls was the subject of the postscript to Tony Collins’ book on the mysterious deaths of scientists in the British military sector, Open Secret (Sphere, London 1990). Vialls, a former petroleum engineer, had been the victim of some kind of mind control programme. He abandoned his career and holed-up in […]

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The CIA and Mountbatten

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] for strategic defence purposes within NATO. Powell presented no evidence, but drew attention to the subsequent Anglo-Irish summit meeting in October 1979, at which he claims a secret agreement was reached which governed subsequent policy, the objective being that the Irish Republic abandon its military neutrality and join NATO. The Mountbatten murder was surrounded […]

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Shorts

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] the Soviets were not linked to the assassination attempt on the Pope.’ The CIA, said Goodman in the early 1980s ‘had very good penetration of the Bulgarian secret services’ and that these clandestine CIA sources had found no Soviet or Bulgarian involvement in the shooting.’ Significant, though not quite conclusive. laissez faire (their lower […]

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Parallel development: the Workers Party and the Progressive Unionist Party in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] on the British government to send the SAS into Dundalk and hunt down dissident republicans by deadly force. As Irish Home Affairs Minister Brian Cowan was in secret talks with dissident republicans at the time and the Garda Siochana were prevented from dealing with dissident republicans appropriately, Johnny McLaughlin was right. He was nonetheless […]

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The once and future king?

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] a grouping like the Chartists might have instigated the whole thing.It seems reasonably certain that the Short forgeries were the work of some branch of the British secret state and were part of the attempts in 1974-76 to discredit the Labour governments of Harold Wilson. Ted Knight fits perfectly the role of the ‘deep […]

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The Clash of the Icons

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] and after a tour of duty in Europe, returned to South Vietnam in 1954 as an aide to the above-mentioned Ed Lansdale, to help organize the CIA’s secret anti-communist forces in North Vietnam. As a measure of his knack for deceit and deception, it is worth noting that one of Conein’s favorite ‘dirty tricks’ […]

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The Oyston Affair continues: D909 and the friends of Margaret Thatcher

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

The former deputy Labour leader of Preston has been given legal aid to sue the Inland Revenue, two chief constables, two former Tory government ministers, two millionaires and a former fish and chip shop owner, for conspiring to steal his tax records. Frank McGrath was swept out of power in a Labour Party purge after … Read more

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This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] and its core remains the Foreign Office and the City. Britain remains locked in their imperial fantasies. In writing this book Young has been given access to secret Foreign Office papers, including an in-house history of the negotiations with the EEC. He and his colleagues at the Foreign Office have thus driven a coach […]

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The final testimony of George Kennedy Young

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] that in Britain’s shaky post-war situation economic information should be given a high priority. It was indeed satisfying when a single report could pay for the annual Secret Vote several times over. This was the pattern which, in his later appointments, Young attempted to set for the whole service. One report, however, did not […]

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The Citizen Smith case or the spy who came in from Oporto

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] Police. The British Security Services continue their underhanded methods as revealed by the current case of ex-MI5 spy, David Shayler, who tried to whistle blow on his secret service bosses.’ After reading this I thought: sure, he is innocent and I’m Santa Claus! But my interest in this story grew because my house in […]

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