Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] who were sequestrated by the Americans under the umbrella of the now infamous Operation Paperclip. Both Klaus Barbie (the infamous ‘Butcher of Lyon’) and Reinhard Gehlen (Hitler’s spy chief) were integral to the founding of several ‘Gladio’ networks through their connections to other ex-Nazis, some of whom were, like Barbie and Gehlen themselves, war […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] in the foreword, that in 1965 he was asked by a CIA officer if he would ‘volunteer’ to kill Fitzer. The CIA officer said Pitzer was a spy, a traitor. Marvin declined – but only because the CIA officer wanted it done in the US: Marvin wouldn’t kill at home, only overseas. (To my […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] would be a good cover for keeping an eye on radical students and others. I am paranoid. But am I paranoid enough? A character in a recent spy novel says: the basic truth of conspiracy? If it can be imagined, then someone’s already tried it.29 This may be an exaggeration but perhaps not that […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] Rogue Warriors, also based on the Macintyre book.1 Ben Macintyre is a columnist and associate editor at The Times; he is also author of the controversial The Spy and the Traitor (2018) in which he exhumed the discredited story that the (then safely dead Michael Foot) had been paid some £1,500 by the KGB […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] a rapport with Frank Olson during a number of subsequent visits Frank Olson made to Britain. Dr. Sargant remarked that ‘he was just like any other CIA spy, using our secret airfields to come and go.’ Sargant told Thomas he could publish what he was saying, but only after his death. He went on […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] cash and 3 clothes to his son. Guest-More lived in Malta with a genuine British passport, cloned in the name of a real British citizen, a classic spy trick. Jimmy Raven was jailed at Chester Crown Court for at least 24 years for the murder of Brian Waters, 44. The cannabis grower had been […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] of 1156 mph, a range of 2000 miles, weighs 13.8 tons and costs $102m each. 9 See The Sunday Times 13 April 2014, ‘Keep it quiet: RAF spy planes fail safety rules’ at . Ironically one of the reasons given for dumping the Nimrod programme in 2010 was that the aircraft wasn’t safe. The […]