Last Talons of the Eagle

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

Secret Nazi Technology which could have changed the course of WWII Gary Hyland and Anton Gill, Headline Books, 1998, £18.99 Thirty years ago schoolboys built model aeroplanes. The most common and popular were, for the Airfix generation, the main combat types of the last great war – Spitfires, Me109s, Mustangs, Zeros, Lancasters, Flying Fortresses etc … Read more

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Spooks. Hollis. Tomlinson

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] letters to the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee and John Wadham of Liberty, who has been acting for him, Tomlinson alleged that SIS planned to assassinate the Serb leader Slobodan Milosevich in 1992 and had an informant high up in the Bundesbank. (Sunday Times 30 August, 20 and 27 September 1998; Independent […]

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Starting Notes On The British In Vietnam

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

It is well known that counter insurgency expert Sir Robert Thompson, after his ‘success’ in Malaya, went to Vietnam, under the title of British Advisory Mission, to help the Americans. He was head of the mission until 1965, subsequently visiting Saigon a number of times before being appointed a special consultant by President Nixon. Less … Read more

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The Open Side of Secrecy: Britain’s Intelligence and Security Committee

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] secretary for approval.’ (p. 68) Do you believe either the FCO or its minister approved the SIS plans to pay a Libyan Al-Qaeda affiliate to try and assassinate Gadaffi, or to run disinformation into the British media before the attack on Iraq? No? Me neither. However, despite living in a kind of dream world […]

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Fleshing Out Skull and Bones

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

Fleshing Out Skull and Bones: Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society Ed. Kris Millegan Waterville (Oregon): TrineDay, 2003, (UK) £28.50, h/back Distributed in the UK by Gazelle Books, www.gazellebooks.co.uk   As an illustration of how much the American media’s view of secret societies has changed in the last 20 years, have a look at … Read more

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Shorts

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

Shorts Yorkshire Post (14 March ’92) reported the admission by the Ministry of Defence that in an operation called HORNBEAM, trawlers had been used during the first Cold War to spy on Soviet shipping. But the MOD spokesperson refused to confirm that some trawlers had carried intelligence officers. Statewatch Bulletin (Jan/Feb 1992) includes an important … Read more

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The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] job by JFK. Some twenty days before the assassination in Dallas, the US Secret Service received a teletype from the FBI warning them of a plot to assassinate the president in Chicago by members of the far right. Arrests were apparently made but no charges were laid.48 After the assassination, Bolden tried to tell […]

[PDF file]: […] job by JFK. Some twenty days before the assassination in Dallas, the US Secret Service received a teletype from the FBI warning them of a plot to assassinate the president in Chicago by members of the far right. Arrests were apparently made but no charges were laid.20 After the assassination, Bolden tried to tell […]

The G-man and the switchman: Two JFK microstudies by professional investigators

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Mr Adams writes: ‘Any Bureau office receiving the report would file it as stated. No-one would look in the Racial Matters Section for evidence involving threats to assassinate JFK.’ (p. 71) McGraw’s misdirection had a degree of plausibility, because Milteer was heavily involved in white supremacist politics and had inside information about a number […]

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