The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
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[PDF file]: […] He discusses these differences on pp. 84-5. Godson’s obituary was in The Times, 6 September 1986. 41 Godson’s son, Roy, who appears on the same trade union/ intelligence circuit in the 1970s, married Sam Watson’s daughter. Watson was one of the most important trade union leaders in the post-war period, chairman of the National […]

Powers, Angleton, Morley and Dallas

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] revisions. This is something Morley would not do. Thomas Powers actually met James Angleton and recalls the conversation they had as a basic Angleton tutorial on counter- intelligence (CI) techniques. They talked about the collection of ‘serials’ on subjects and the opening of chronologies on people and events, along with two basic rules of […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in North Korea.’ Interview in Korea: The Unknown War, Thames Television (UK) 1988. 25 David Dean Rusk (1909-1994) was a Rhodes scholar and became a US Army intelligence officer during WWII; later Deputy Under Secretary of State and then Assistant Secretary of State for Far East Affairs, and finally Secretary of State to Presidents […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] to question the head of MI5; the Home Secretary, Teresa May, duly refused on the grounds that his appearance would ‘duplicate’ the existing oversight provided by the Intelligence and Security Committee. Thus the beauty of the ISC from the state’s perspective: it provides the appearance of accountability and scrutiny while actually providing neither. Its […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] he managed to penetrate the CIA-Air Force U2 program run out of a highly restricted area in the huge Atsugi base on behalf of the Soviet Union’s intelligence services; that as an air-traffic controller, Oswald tracked U-2 flights out of Atsugi and learned just how high the U-2 flew. With this information, the Soviets […]

Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy by Tim Milne

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the history of espionage have had their public career, achievements, character and private life so thoroughly surveyed and discussed in literature and the media as the British intelligence officer Kim Philby. His story is well-known, but a brief resume might be useful. He was a classic product of the British establishment. Son of the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] sex abuse ring discovered during surveillance operation’, with this: ‘MI6 infiltrated the Kincora boys’ home in east Belfast to spy on William McGrath’.1 He continued: ‘The ex- intelligence officer said MI6 was ordered to watch the Kincora care home in Belfast in the 1970s because one of its housemasters, William McGrath, was the leader […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] FARI were both active in the UK in 1970s. 1 2 See, for example, . The Wiki entry on him at does its best to minimise his intelligence connections. A much more accurate account is at . 3 or 4 1 The View from the Bridge What actually happened is more prosaic. By the […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] FARI were both active in the UK in 1970s. 1 2 See, for example, . The Wiki entry on him at does its best to minimise his intelligence connections. A much more accurate account is at . 3 or 4 There is nothing in it about such an operation involving Agee.5 What actually happened […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] draw on historical and contemporary material to ask how this came about and, in particular, to look at the role of the energy security industry and private intelligence and military contractors in the preparation for war with Iran. Ridiculous as they were, the charges of an Iranian assassination plot on US soil were timely. […]

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