The smearing of Colin Wallace

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] big lie. In a statement to the Civil Service Appeals Board in 1976, when Wallace was appealing against his dismissal from the Army (appealing successfully), his former boss, Peter Broderick, Head of Army Information Services, said of Wallace: “He had constant and free access to information of high classification and extreme sensitivity.” Ware is […]

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Scott et al

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] 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 […]

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Lying about Iraq

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

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

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British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] HON ATTACHE OSLO 1934 ATHENS 1935 RESIGNED 1938 RE-EMPLOYED ATHENS HEAD OF STATION 1939 BERLIN, OSLO 1950 STILL LISTED CAMPBELL ‘LEFEVRE’ DR DIANE B 1942 MI6 ( BOSS. GORDON WINTER 1981) 1960s AFRICA, MALAWI (BLANTYRE) 1971 BEIRUT 1973 PARIS INVOLVED IN INFILTRATING ‘BLACK SEPTEMBER’ CAMPBELL, JOHN ALAN GEORGE B 21.7.17 MI6 (C) 1951 FO […]

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Still hazy after all these years

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] made by Estes and who confirm, in general terms, that they contain what Estes says they do.(5) Marcello’s ‘confession’ Elsewhere we learn of a ‘confession’ by Mafia boss, the late Carlos Marcello, that he had Kennedy killed. According to reports of the new book by Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann, Legacy of Secrecy, declassified […]

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Lobster Issue 31: Contents

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] 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 […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] 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 […]

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Book reviews

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] 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 […]

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Britain spinning in the Sibel Edmonds web

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] 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 […]

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Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] 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 […]

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