[…] of these events are described in great detail by Gerald James. This is an important book, perhaps a very important book, and it is fascinating. James, as boss of Astra, was one of the minor players in the arms game in the 1980s who got screwed by the bigger players and the covert arms […]
NB This issue of Lobster went to the printer in late May. At that stage no Iraqi ‘weapons of mass destruction’ had been found by the ‘coalition’ forces. Before the furore over the British government’s ‘dodgy dossier’ in February, in truth I hadn’t been really paying much too attention to the then impending assault on … Read more
[…] so few books have been written about it. Bert Wickstead’s (ex Scotland Yard) slight but useful Gangbuster (Futura 1985) is welcome. It contains some material on gangland boss Bernie Silver. Which is by way of recommending The Pornbrokers (Virgin 1982) by Martin Tomkinson which has recently been remaindered. Silver, it is said, organised the […]
[…] insisted that he could continue the investigation, relying on the local British embassy for security if need be. The following evening he received a call from his boss, Mickey Bispham. He was ordered to return to London immediately. Amin was thereafter almost taken back to square one. The only hard evidence he had to […]
[…] Yvonne Fletcher. In this issue of Lobster Page 2 begins an extract from a chapter from the new book by Peter Dale Scott. Scott is still the boss as far as I am concerned, and this extract shows that, armed with some of the recently declassified material, Scott is getting pretty close to unravelling […]
[…] MI5 already gunning for Heath at that point and trying to drop him in it? In the second there were some comments of the former British Leyland boss Michael Edwardes who described going to the Cabinet Office to read the minutes of meetings between ‘the Communist Party and our shop stewards……..It was absolutely clear […]
[…] had to date. Something is going on here but I’ve no idea what. Interesting (just) for pp 68-74 which discuss the South Africa Foundation and the UK-SA Trade Association. Barber, incidentally, is the author of the article on BOSS in Britain (African Affairs July 1983) mentioned in Lobster 4.) Read the article, ignore this. RR
[…] she would become the first female PM of Britain.’ This raises two points. The minor one is that this supports Gordon Winter. For in his memoir Inside BOSS, Winter describes (p. 186) a 1968 meeting with Cecil Eprille a employee of the CIA front, Forum World Features, whom he quotes as saying, ‘There’s a […]
[…] for underground dealings with Germans willing to discuss peace such as Admiral Canaris, the Abwehr chief, Hermann Goering (whose chauffeur was a Swedish agent), the SS intelligence boss Walter Schellenberg or, at the end of the war, Heinrich Himmler. (De Courcy told me that he had met Himmler and thought him a man with […]
Books Secret Contenders Melvin Beck (Sheridan Square Publications, US 1984) The CIA Christmas party of 1958 found 48 year old all-American boy, Melvin Beck, getting the offer of overseas work with Clandestine Services. He “struck like a hungry bass” and landed in Havana in 1959, just as the first Russian freighter was arriving. Fairly early … Read more
