Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] was the 1973 Scotland Yard/Special Branch secret solicitors blacklist. And finally when Essex Police mounted Operation Century (1996), using undercover Special Branch to role-play as life threatening IRA terrorists, there was no police accountability. Those on the receiving end of this spot of Special Branch adventurism complained but Essex Police got the Police Complaints […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] of MI5 is keen to steal some thunder from MI6, it is somewhat depressing to see that the same attitudes that often hampered the conflict with the IRA in Northern Ireland are still alive and kicking in the ubiquitous ‘war on terror’.3 *new* Dominic Cummings’ particular brand of bullshit On 17 March, Dominic Cummings […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] of Lord Maclean’s report following the Billy Wright Inquiry . The Joint Support Group (Northern Ireland) was the renamed replacement for the infamous ‘Force Research Unit’ that ran agents Brian Nelson (aka Agent 6137) in the UDA and Freddie Scappaticci (aka ‘Stakeknife’) in the IRA. 18 19 Details of this posting are given at .
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] a low-level operative. As an Irishman with a criminal record, Bannigan had his uses, and was deniable. He began carrying a gun, provided a report on alleged IRA gun-running activities, turned up in 1935 at the office of Violet van der Elst (an anti-capital punishment campaigner). He claimed, at various times, to be involved […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] at . 1 The Man Who Kept the Secrets (1979). A review of it which appeared in the New Republic is at . 2 See for example Ira David Wood’s JFK Assassination Chronology at . 3 And we can confidently say that the JFK assassination records, ‘serials’, chronology and the information from the latest […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] of the list is the caveat that ‘The U.S. 5 6 See . 7 Cedric Delves had been Commanding Officer of 22nd SAS in 1988 when three IRA terrorists were shot dead in Gibraltar (Operation Flavius). See . 8 See p. 30 of The UK Government’s ‘Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, Eighth Report 2005–2006’ […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] game. Who is James Fielding? In the 430 articles written for the Express by Fielding5 there is only one other with intelligence content: ‘MI5 lead hunt for IRA arms dumps’ in 2011 which began ‘Irish terrorists are feared to be planning an attack on mainland Britain using explosives hidden in Wales and the South-west’, […]