LSD-IRA? David Solomon, James Joseph McCann and Operation Julie

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] during his ownership, this seemed questionable. I have been informed by a source close to Donovan that he used to be regularly visited by a ‘lady from MI5’ – although this source, when asked to elaborate, declined to comment any further. A tantalising, and yet inconclusive, state of affairs. 5 – James McCann, David […]

Shameless!

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Trotskyist doctrine that the workers should ‘take no part in the bosses’ war’. A paid official and organiser of the ILP from 1940, he was monitored by MI5 but no action was taken against him. Perhaps this was because he was declared unfit for war service on medical grounds and thus never had to […]

Has a DNA test solved the Rudolf Hess doppelgänger mystery?

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the minute “Langer’s Lines” of the skin when held directly over the entrance and exit sites.’ 7 When Dr Christopher Andrew, author of the authorised history of MI5, presented the Timewatch report 8 dismissing the doppelgänger theory, the retired MI6 officer Charles Fraser-Smith, the original for Ian Fleming’s ‘Q’, came forward to insist that […]

Lobster review: Red Pepper magazine, #85, July 2001

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A  review of Lobster in Red Pepper magazine, #85, July 2001

[PDF file]: […] that many articles over the years dwell in depth on attacks made on Lobster (in particular, by Searchlight, which Lobster has consistently criticised as working closely with MI5). However, the magazine’s autobiographical asides are very absorbing, and there are plenty of other things to read if you want to steer clear of this. The […]

Historical notes on the use of troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike

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[PDF file]: […] of spies and informers, some in the heart of the mining communities.19 These informers (whose identities would be at risk of exposure in an Inquiry) reported to MI5, Special Branch and the Police. They gathered information about the strikers’ plans and helped the authorities to frustrate their picketing operations. All this would doubtless be […]

Lobster review: Direct Action Issue #19 Summer 2001

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A review of Lobster in Direct Action Issue #19 Summer 2001

[PDF file]: […] — maybe due to aspirations towards the academic learned journal. While Lobster is undoubtedly a handy periodical, the main emphasis is on the murkey doings of governments, MI5 and other secret services, etc. All very revealing and worth it, just for the pub talk’ potential. However, the real star turn out now is the […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] in 1997 and then introduced its partial ban on fox-hunting. Any link between the two events was denied, of course. See . 73 or 74 23 ‘Revealed: MI5 and MI6 are training senior spies from Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt’ ‘”Paralysing a nation”: Evidence emerges of Royal Navy’s complicity in Saudiled sea blockade of […]

Historical Notes on troops and the miners’s strike

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[…] of spies and informers, some in the heart of the mining communities.19 These informers (whose identities would be at risk of exposure in an Inquiry) reported to MI5, Special Branch and the Police. They gathered information about the strikers’ plans and helped the authorities to frustrate their picketing operations. All this would doubtless be […]

Lobster review: Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000

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A review of Lobster in Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000

[PDF file]: Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000 Lobster #39 Summer 2000 214 Westbourne Avenue, Hull HU5 3JB Lobster is the near legendary brainchild of Robin Ramsey, which deals with cover-ups and conspiracy theories within the corridors ofpower. Previous editions have dealt with such issues as American and Tory intervention in British unions, New Labour and the […]

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