Powers, Angleton, Morley and Dallas

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] into the US Marine Corps. He served at bases in San Diego, the Philippines and Atsugi, Japan, where he worked in radar and communications at a top secret U2 base. He was trained in the Russian language before being given an early discharge and then defected to the Soviet Union. In the USSR he […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] to ignore all the sworn affidavits and are trying another tack CSIS’s lawyers are trying to persuade the Court to allow anonymous personal testimony (and affidavits) in secret. In other words secret testimony where I wouldn’t know who had testified, or what their testimony was. This is kangaroo court stuff. Apparently I will be […]

Underground Structures of the Cold War: The World Below by Paul Ozorak

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Paul Ozorak Barnsley (UK): Pen & Sword Books, 2012. xx + 364 pp. Illustrated, notes, references, index, £25.00. It was the ‘Spies for Peace’ pamphlet, Danger! Official Secret RSG6, that was distributed on the 1963 Aldermaston March, and mailed to the media (some 4000 copies in total were printed), that first alerted us slumbering […]

A key for a Clockwork Orange

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] itself should have been a big clue, but Lewis doesn’t appear to have even consulted a dictionary. It denotes interference with the brain via electromagnetic fields. No secret research was taking place in this field at the time the novel appeared or before it. The microwave auditory effect (also known as the Frey Effect, […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

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[PDF file]: […] just after WW2 and funded, it appears, by the road transport lobby of the time.13 From 1971-74 Martin’s publications were regularly advertised in John Loftus, The Belarus Secret (London, 1983) pp. 165, 205. This has been remaindered in the UK and in kicking around for 30 or 40p. One of the most important books […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] can extrapolate a little from Holt’s account and see how the pieces fit. The plan for which he provided technical assistance was an attempt to sabotage Kennedy’s (secret) policy of slowly building détente with Cuba. The fake assassination attempt would fire the Mannlicher-Carcano round through the smooth bore rifle at Kennedy and attribute this […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] a congenial external environment. Its outline became clear during the early 1970s, when a programme for international economic reform See Kevin John McEvoy, ‘Before the rubble: Britain’s secret propaganda offensive in Chile (1960-1973)’, Contemporary British History, Volume 35 (2021), p. 603. Historians of modern Chile and the covert operations of the British state have […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] part of the Cold War, running agents into East Germany. He would later pursue a career as a thriller writer and admitted that he was given ‘top secret information’ by the CIA in the 1970s and ‘80s to place in, and spice up, his espionage novels.1 4 Mention should also be made of Philip […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of sharing, and possibly taking, power. Britain’s colonial possessions were vulnerable to Communist influence.’52 I think the biggest revelation is that IRD’s work was not classified as secret for the first couple of years. That changed, however, when: ‘The need to recruit specialist staff, free from the limitations of civil service pay and conditions, […]

A Thorn in Their Side: The Hilda Murrell murder by Robert Green with Kate Dewes

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] thinking; the Cold War had been revived for the benefit of the American arms companies and opposition to American power and nuclear power was significant. The British secret state was more or less given its head by Mrs Thatcher, who believed – genuinely, as far as I can determine – that Britain really was […]

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