Philip Agee, the KGB and us

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] KGB station in Mexico City, offering us reams of information about CIA operations. But our station chief in Mexico City thought Agee was a CIA plant spreading disinformation, and rejected him. Agee then went to the Cubans, who welcomed him with open arms. As it turned out, Agee was absolutely genuine, divulging the names […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

Western Goals (UK)

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] war crimes trials in Britain. ‘The British Government’, it concluded, ‘would be well advised not to allow British Justice to be perverted as part of a communist disinformation ploy’. (19) The notepaper on which the press release was issued gave the names of Western Goals (UK)’s vice presidents. Among them was the long standing […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

Web Update

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] is happening’. A mixture of materials on intelligence, parapsychology, UFOs, eg remote viewing expts, psychotropic drug expts at Edgewood, CIA attempts at using hypnotism in covert ops. Disinformation http://www.disinfo.com/ ‘Disinformation was designed to be the search service of choice for individuals looking for information on current affairs, politics, new science and the “hidden information” […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

Kitson, Kincora and counter-insurgency in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] are various items of important information missing from it. It is difficult to say whether these flaws are the result of poor Intelligence or whether they are disinformation provided for our consumption. If we are to interest the press in this matter with a view to exposing what has been taking place and thereby […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

Agca: true confessions

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] German officials, who had extensive knowledge of the Grey Wolves, expressed doubts about “the reputation and efficiency of the Italian security services and referred to an ‘intentional disinformation campaign by the Italian authorities’ “.(Guardian 5 January 1983). On one level it was to publicise the ‘all terrorism is KGB-inspired’ line of Crozier and his […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

Book reviews

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] likely candidate seems to be Vladimir Chuchuken, a KGB agent at the UN in New York from 1962 to 1977’ (p609). Chuchukin is named as a KGB disinformation officer in Barron’s previous book The KGB (1974) (p212). Surely the FBI had more sense than to recruit a disinformation expert… Just to point out that […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

The influence of intelligence services on the British left

Lobster Issue

[…] was this: it was being surveilled by Special Branches, the US state department, the Foreign Office’s IRD and various private organisations like the Economic League. Information and disinformation on the left was being distributed by Common Cause and IRIS both funded in my opinion, by the CIA and by the secret Foreign Office propaganda […]

The Open Side of Secrecy: Britain’s Intelligence and Security Committee

Book cover
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] of that system. In their view of this country’s recent history there were no Wilson plots; Northern Ireland is ignored; Cathy Massiter was guilty of ‘moralising misrepresentations’; disinformation, I-ops and bureaucratic rivalries are ignored. Intelligence and security organisations are no more or less likely to break the law than any other public bodies, they […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

Brief Notes on the Political Importance of Secret Societies (Part 2)

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] lobbyist for Haiti, a country where de Morenschildt was actively pursuing business deals and intelligence missions. (29) In short, the McDonald/Kimsey/Capell network appears to have been a disinformation clique centred around the SOJ, and aiming to smear the Soviets (and Goldwater opponent Lyndon Johnson) with responsibility for one of the great political crimes in […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

Golitsyn

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] are really disguised party group. The ‘Prague Spring’ was organised by the Soviet party: the Sino-Soviet, Yugoslav-Soviet, Albania-Soviet, Rumanian-Soviet splits are all phoneys, part of some long-range disinformation strategy to con the West. And so on. As soon as you get Golitsyn ‘s drift the book becomes immensely wearisome and predictable. Here’s a beautiful […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

Skip to content