Rebranding SIS

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] assistant to the then Vice President of the European Parliament’s Technological Development and Energy Committee; as well as a Japanese national who was formerly with the Japanese Embassy in Vienna as ‘special economic assistant on assignment from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs’. (10) HMG – of which SIS forms a part – is […]

PR, espionage and language

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] Telegraph and The Times which were sometimes used to flag things up, and which could be spotted in London, perhaps via an associate at a particular country’s embassy. Using the same fictitious APG as an example, a lobbyist could have ensured that, say, a member of the House of Lords participated in a specific […]

Kincoragate: More Bodies

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

[…] no one had been expelled from the country. True, but a few days earlier Mr Guennadi Saline (codename ‘Silver’), First Secretary and Press Attache to the Soviet Embassy in Dublin, was expelled from Eire, as were Victor Lipassov and his wife Evotokia. Mrs Lipassov is believed to be a KGB agent and to have […]

Hess, ‘Hess’ and the ‘peace Party’ (Book review)

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] Cabinet. Then, as Thurlow puts it: ‘This resistance was overridden by the implications of the Tyler Kent affair.’ Tyler Kent was a cypher clerk in the American Embassy in London. He had been under MI5 surveillance for some 7 months during which he had made contact with members of the Right Club, the hard-core […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] an intelligent listener for him. He told me that he thought that he, while mind-controlled, and not the Libyans, had shot WPC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Embassy. I published this in Lobster. Joe was very unhappy about this and denied telling me what he had said. Since I don’t record conversations, I had […]

PERMINDEX: The International Trade in Disinformation

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

On the 12th February 1967, Rosemary James of the New Orleans States-Item newspaper discovered that Jim Garrison, District Attorney of New Orleans, had spent more than $8,000 on his own investigation of the assassination of John Kennedy. (The story appeared on the front page on February 20th.) Two weeks later the DA’s office announced the … Read more

The Libyans and the death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] programme broadcast on Channel 4. That programme included testimony from Dr Hugh Thomas on the analysis of the wound which killed Fletcher which suggested that the Libyan embassy was not the source of the shot.(5) Does the deal done with the Libyans include the rubbishing of those who never believed the Libyan story in […]

Geheim – CIA in England

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

This is from No 3 volume 7, 1988 of Geheim, the German member of the international brotherhood of parapolitics mags (of which Lobster is apparently the smallest, poorest and least frequent). The good news for those of us too lazy to learn anything but English is that Geheim is going to produce an English- language […]

Defector Politics: or, grooving with Mr G.

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] On p. 115 he named Labour MPs or former MPs Stan Newens, Jo Richardson, Joan Lestor, Frank Allaun and Joan Maynard as ‘confidential contacts’ of the Soviet embassy and ‘fellow travelling MPs’. Crozier had been told of their role as ‘confidential contacts’ by a ‘senior KGB defector in London’. That can only have been […]

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