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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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] of Dave Spart? RR: You keep trying to patronise me and it always misses. The reference to Dave Spart simply tells me you have never read Lobster. Secret servants Red faces at NATO where the official NATO Website carried for two months an English translation of an article, which had originally appeared in Croatia, […]

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Eye Spy!

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] a CIA agent. EYE SPY! reports that, ‘ironically, the camera that recorded was one of his own’: there is no speculation as to how the spymaster’s super- secret videotapes reached the press, no reference to Fujimori’s opposition to the USA’s Plan Colombia as a factor in his sudden downfall. In other words, the stuff […]

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Spooks. Hollis. Tomlinson

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] wrong by security or intelligence officials. (See for example ‘MPs urge spies curb’ in The Guardian, 3 November 1998 and ‘Investigator to get wide powers to quiz secret service’, The Sunday Telegraph 14 February 1999.) This ‘special investigator’ is, of course, another piece of Whitehall bullshit which will not satisfy the Intelligence and Security […]

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Northern Ireland Act 1974

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] two and a half years, he ran a series of intelligence operations. I quote him so that there can be no suspicion that he might be a secret member of the Militant Tendency or a secret republican. At the public meeting, his words were that he believed that the Army officers and men with […]

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UFOs and the governments of the USA and UK

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] (BMEWS) Site III, RAF, England.'(7) In conjunction with this regulation exists US Space Command Regulation 55-20, Warning Verification of Hostile Space Events, dated 31 January 1990, classified secret. ‘This regulation establishes procedures to provide timely and accurate status reporting, warning and verification of hostile space events to National Command Authorities (NCA), collatoral agencies, space […]

Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico: new leads

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] Commission Chief Counsel J. Lee Rankin (3), but nobody on the Commission has owned up to seeing it. The potentially explosive material contained in the memo was secret for 12 years, and even now the full text has not been released. Curiously, support for the memo’s claims came in an article written by the […]

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The CIA and radiation experiments on humans

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] Op. cit. 9 ‘Report of the Inspection of MKULTRA/TSD’, July 26 1963 The Geschickter Fund for Medical Research served as the principal cut-out source for the CIA’s secret funding of numerous MKULTRA projects. Additionally, CIA tried to enlist the Atomic Energy Commission to co-fund the project by appealing to its interest in Geschickter’s radiation […]

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Coach into pumpkin: some problems with Paget

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] fate meted out in January 2007 to The News of the World’s Clive Goodman), we may safely infer that the culprits were indeed rogue members of the secret state. Yet Paget’s only reference to ‘Squidgygate’ is a single line on P120: ‘There is substantive evidence from the broadcast of her personal telephone conversations with, […]

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The two Indonesias and the two Americas

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] to distance itself publicly from the Army, as the latter prepared to eliminate its opponents by wholesale massacre. The first political motive was spelled out in a secret memo to President Johnson on July 17, 1964 (preceding the coup and massacre by one year): Our aid to Indonesia…. we are satisfied…. is not helping […]

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