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 […]

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 […]

On getting it wrong and getting it right: Ronald Stark, LSD and the CIA

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Take, for example, the conspiracy theory which holds that the psychedelic counter-culture of the 1960s was engineered by the CIA as part of a plot by a secret, global elite bent on mass mind-control. Variations of it have found favour on both sides of the political spectrum. For the Right, the psychedelic counter-culture undermined […]

TO CATCH A SPY: How the Spycatcher Affair Brought MI5 in from the Cold by Tim Tate

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] – has lent enchantment. It’s more that when Peter Wright’s book Spycatcher was published, I was so focused on the sections which supported Colin Wallace’s story of secret state machinations against the Wilson government, I barely noticed Wright’s Soviet-spies-in-MI5 story which has been so thoroughly analysed, retold and updated by Tate. And what a […]

David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] podcast in June of 2017, when Shayler first made the allegation re Ramadan Abedi. That is the website of David Icke – yes, he of the ‘ secret lizard illuminati’ (as opposed, one supposes, to the ‘open lizard illuminati’). David Shayler has been interviewed multiple times on the Richie Allen show and he has […]

Gareth Llewellyn, CSIS and the Canadian stasi

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] interests of the state’ under the Security of Information Act (SOIA). My career was ruined as a result. So, congratulations… you are now privy to a nationalsecurity secret. If, after a moment of contemplation, you find something fishy about this ‘secret,’ as if Canada’s security wouldn’t change one iota if it were broadcast around […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

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[PDF file]: […] Here is Wright’s account. Then there was the Falber Affair. After the PARTY PIECE operation, MI5 went on the hunt for the CPGB files which listed the secret payments made to the Party by the Soviets. We suspected that perhaps they might be held in the flat of Reuben Falber, who had recently been […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] very effectively from 1936. 2 Dorman-Smith was a member of both English Array, a right-wing ecological group and English Mystery, which called for government based on ‘the secret of race’. He was also Honorary Secretary of the Duke of Bedford’s English People’s Party. Churchill sent him to Burma as Governor on 6 May 1941. […]

LSD-IRA? David Solomon, James Joseph McCann and Operation Julie

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] path led to a secluded creek, which would, Harvey says, have been ‘perfect for smuggling’. The Masons also ran a small David Black, Psychedelic Tricksters: a True Secret History of LSD (London: BPC, 2020) p. 180) 4 5 Harvey Mason to author. 2 restaurant, named the Seven Seas, on Mona Street, in Amlwch. A […]

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