The Pentagon’s Psychic Research

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] penetration of a residence that was used by Noriega as a meeting site’. Another SECRET/NOFORN letter from US Army Intelligence and Security Command, signed by Brigadier General Ira C. Owens, Deputy Commander, dated February 29, 1996, describes the project: ‘In 1983 this Headquarters initiated a project named LANDBROKER. The project appears to have been […]

The View From The Bridge

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] of being a conspiracy theorist. They then take him to task for not taking at face value the role of Red Action members in support of the IRA. ‘From O’Hara’s standpoint it is preferable to invent a mythical third party to which the shooting can be attributed, rather than wrestle with the uncomfortable reality […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££

[PDF file]: […] of the Communist Party who were de facto agents of the USSR. 7 Another of MI5’s themes of the time – the Soviet Union behind the Provisional IRA – was the subject of another Stewart-Smith pamphlet published in 1976, written by John Biggs-Davison, at the time the Tory frontbench spokesman on Northern Ireland. (22) […]

The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] killing, both on and off duty, of over 300 of their colleagues. One of the most controversial cases Simpson investigated was the dramatic kidnapping by the Provisional IRA of 45 year-old Thomas Niedermayer, a German national, who was the Managing Director of the Grundig electronics factory on the outskirts of Belfast. He had been […]

Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] little dissatisfied. You could well describe Peter Taylor as ‘the spooks favourite conduit’. It is true that he has, occasionally, given unbiased coverage to members of the IRA and other such organisations. However, when it comes to the actions of the British state, he always leans toward the state’s version of events. (I give […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] little dissatisfied. You could well describe Peter Taylor as ‘the spooks favourite conduit’. It is true that he has, occasionally, given unbiased coverage to members of the IRA and other such organisations. However, when it comes to the actions of the British state, he always leans toward the state’s version of events. (I give […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] little dissatisfied. You could well describe Peter Taylor as ‘the spooks favourite conduit’. It is true that he has, occasionally, given unbiased coverage to members of the IRA and other such organisations. However, when it comes to the actions of the British state, he always leans toward the state’s version of events. (I give […]

Intelligent Warfare: The Memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Nevertheless, in the autumn of 1970 he was appointed to command the 39th Brigade in Northern Ireland. Here he presided over the British campaign against the Provisional IRA in Belfast, which, in every way possible, made the situation worse. How revealing is his account? Let us look at one quite well-known episode: Bloody Sunday. […]

Newsinger on KItson

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[…] Nevertheless, in the autumn of 1970 he was appointed to command the 39th Brigade in Northern Ireland. Here he presided over the British campaign against the Provisional IRA in Belfast, a campaign that in every way possible made the situation worse. How revealing is his account? Let us look at one quite well-known episode: […]

Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] rise of Thatcher within the Conservative Party, died as a result of the blast.1 Less than six months later, on 27 August 1979, co-ordinated attacks by the IRA killed Lord Mountbatten (a relative of both the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh) in a fishing boat off the coast of the Irish Republic and […]

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