Dean Andrews’ testimony to the Warren Commission

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] storage. Interested parties could try contacting what is left of the organisation on 415 658 1855. A third allegation is included in The Squad: the US Government’s secret alliance with organized crime, Michael Milan, (Prion/Multimedia, London 1989) ‘Michael Milan’ is the pseudonym of someone who claims to have been a former OSS member and […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] up MI5 Chief Sir Stephen Lander (new chief not in yet) in the Index, his column ref. is ….. ‘666’. If you look up the Security Service, Secret Intelligence Services, GCHQ, in the Index …..you guessed it: all their references are ‘666’. The book is 550 pages long and it has 1491 column references. […]

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Crisis? What Crisis? Britain in the 1970s

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Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] television version of John le Carré’s 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It depicted the tempting of senior UK espionage moguls with a one-off, spectacular solution to Secret Britain’s ills, a Soviet super-spy who would get us back in with the Americans and restore our standing in the world. In the real world, this […]

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Disposal as a Flight from Public Control: Thailand

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[…] should be investigated by the Senate Intelligence Committee. (c) the training, equipping and rewarding of anti-government elements in the police and military who made little or no secret of their intentions. In particular the Thai Border Patrol Police, now trained and equipped by the DEA in place of the CIA, were the principal murders […]

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Israel’s Edwin Wilson

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] Israel through Harari’s network. Harari’s main contact in the US is a figure often mentioned in the Contra investigations, former CIA agent Felix Rodriguez, who ran the secret Contra resupply effort from Ilopango airbase in El Salvador. Rodriguez’s close colleague on the Contra operation, the CIA’s Donald Gregg, was the Reagan administration’s prime channel […]

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Re:

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

Unfree press A recent release of previously undisclosed documents reveals that J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to carry out the illegal surveillance of newspaper labour activists during the 1940s. Also revealed is the fact that informants included journalists who wanted Communists removing from the leadership of the Newspaper Guild.(1) Only following orders Psychologist Stanley … Read more

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British History and the British Right

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] the Mountbatten incident but only on the basis of Cecil King’s diaries. There is no reference to the work of Dorril and Ramsay (Smear! Wilson and the Secret State, London 1991), of David Leigh (The Wilson Plot, London 1988), or of Paul Foot (Who Framed Colin Wallace?, London 1988). Smear! might have appeared too […]

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KAL 007: 16 Years Later

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

See note(1) By some standards, the loss of 269 souls aboard Korean Air Lines flight 007 on August 31, 1983, was a modest disaster. The Titanic, for example, claimed 1503 lives; the Lusitania 1198. But historians may come to believe that the political implications of the downing of the civilian 747 airliner by a Soviet … Read more

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The 1953 Coup in Iran: an Iranian insider’s view

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] Nasiri, Zahedi, the three unit commanders, two guard officers, a large number of other military personnel, were all aware, and at the same time apprehensive. Consequently, the secret was out, causing gossip and the failure of the plan. The assigned time – 10 pm – was not suitable. Although there was no other alternative […]

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Brands and Britannia: Some aspects of national image and identity

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] Times, 11 October 2007.Meantime, the slanging-match with the Brits continues with Russia’s intelligence chief, Nikolai Patrushev, telling a Moscow newspaper: ‘Since the time of Elizabeth 1, British secret services have worked according to the principle of the “end justifies the means”. Money, bribery blackmail – these are their recruitment methods.’ As quoted in The […]

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