Jim Hougan’s Watergate theory tested in court

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] or imagined calendar or appointments book – not photographs. The way the arrangement worked, visitors to the DNC would be directed to the office of Maxie Wells’ boss, Spencer Oliver. They were told that the telephone would ring, and that, when they answered it, they’d be speaking with….. (here, a photograph would be taken […]

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Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico: new leads

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] the revelations of Anatoli Golitsyn, informed MI5 that Harold Wilson, then leader of the Labour Party, was a spy. After a few enquiries Sir Roger Hollis, MI5’s boss, told John McCone, then head of the CIA, ‘There is nothing in it’. In 1964 Angleton returned to the subject and said that he had new […]

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Apartheid’s friends

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] decent index. I imagine that most of it will be new to most Lobster readers, as it was to me. There is a section early on covering BOSS in Britain in the 1960s and 70s, which was familiar to me having researched this in the 1980s; and it is a very good account, well […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] the publication of a book whose contents they don’t like, the spooks rush round buying up all the copies after it has been published. Gordon Winter’s Inside BOSS is said to be an example of this. (It is certainly very hard to find second-hand, though the blizzard of writs which followed its publication may […]

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Spooks UK

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] from Thatcher. (Guardian 8th December 1983). Simkins spent several of his declining years preparing the massive tome drawing on time expired spy documents, backed by his old boss, Sir Howard Smith, Director General of MI5 until 1982. The veto was a shock since the book was commissioned by the Cabinet Office. It may have […]

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The Last Supper: The Mafia, the Masons

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] In the final chapter Willan recounts how a young Silvio Berlusconi joined the P2 secret society a couple of years before it was exposed, and describes P2 boss Gelli’s plan to take control of Italian society by buying the media and the unions, and forming a new kind of political party – some of […]

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Like books we should have so many witnesses?: Some recent JFK literature

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] when he met Oswald in Texas and New Orleans. He saw him daily and got to know him well. Lewis claims Clay Shaw was Guy Bannister’s intelligence boss and that both Jack Ruby and Roscoe White were Camp Street regulars. Presents a convincing picture of the shadowy intelligence world in the Crescent City. The […]

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

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

Why is a Portuguese journalist writing a book about an almost unknown British spy? Recently I had to answer this same question from Igor Prelin, my favourite ex-KGB officer whom I first meet in Cannes, France, during the Television Market Fair of April 1994. After I met Igor Prelin in Cannes, I travelled to Moscow … Read more

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The Angolan hostages episode, and more …

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] not naive. It is said that Dr. Savimbi was recruited by British intelligence 1964-66.(Covert Action No 4 April/May 1979). Even stronger are his links to Lonrho. Its boss, ‘Tiny’ Rowland, has visited Savimbi at the residence in Rabat, lent by the King of Morocco to Unita’s President; and Lonrho executives have visited Unita’s headquarters […]

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Iran on the brink: Rising workers and threats of war

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

Andreas Malm, and Shora Esmailian London: Pluto Press, 2007, P/b £17.99   At a time when Iran is in the news on a daily basis, when war and rumours of war are being constantly circulated and global warming and peak oil are finally filtering into the public consciousness, the release of this book could not … Read more

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