Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] centre of student politics rows in the 1960s in which a key figure was Meta (now Baroness) Ramsay, later, if not at the time, a member of MI6. Ramsay, a student friend of Foulkes, was secretary of FISC, an alleged CIA front operation. Foulkes went on to become Scottish organiser of the European Movement […]

How many divisions does the Pope have?

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina Uki Goni London: Granta Books, 2002, £20 If there was a category of work called Detective History, Uki Goni really ought to be awarded Book of the Year. Undeterred by the shredding and incineration of key documents, rebuffs from the supporters of Peron […]

The United States and the overthrow of Sukarno, 1965-67

Lobster Issue 20 (1990)

Introduction On May 20th this year the San Francisco Examiner ran a story by Kathy Kadane which began, ‘The U.S. government played a significant role in one of the worst massacres of the century by supplying the names of thousands of Communist Party leaders to the Indonesian army, which hunted down the leftists and killed … Read more

Pissing in or pissing out? The ‘big tent’ of Green Alliance

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] and BP, announced their greatest ever profits, £9bn and £9.8bn respectively. (2) This was followed by curious press reports that both Shell and BP had hired ex- MI6 staff and a former German intelligence agent to infiltrate Greenpeace (3) and that Tesco had asked MI5 to investigate the Royal Society for the Protection of […]

Downing Street Diary: With Harold Wilson in No. 10

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] Lord Wigg, the former George Wigg MP, who, for the first couple of years of the Labour government of 1964/5, had been Wilson’s advisor on MI5 and MI6. This relationship came to grief when Wilson followed Wigg’s advice in the D-Notice Affair and came off worst in a pissing contest with MI5. After which, […]

The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11

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By Peter Dale Scott (18,734 words) 10/29/05 See also A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11 (I wish to acknowledge the invaluable assistance in the preparation of this essay from N, a Russian who for the time being prefers to remain anonymous.)   Tajik authorities have claimed repeatedly that neither the US nor NATO exerts any … Read more

The Ultranationalist Right in Turkey and the Attempted Assassination of Pope John Paul II

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] the London- based Forum World Features ‘news service’, which was subsequently exposed in the mainstream American and British press as a propaganda agency for the CIA and MI6. For excellent summaries of the histories of Crozier and ISC, see State Research 1 (October 1977) and appendices 1 and 8 of Lobster 11. Nevertheless, many […]

The Third Secret: the CIA, Solidarity and the KGB’s plot to kill the Pope

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] this isn’t it. West’s determination to stay on-side with his state informants prevents him from doing anything credible. In a comment on Stephen Dorril’s new book about MI6 on intelforum (www.intelforum.org) West concluded with this: ‘Dorril’s book resembles (sic), in my judgment, a useful work of reference for what has appeared in the newspapers’. […]

Scenes From an Afterlife: The Legacy of George Orwell

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] along the lines of sympathy to the Soviet Union or Red China. Those most hostile to Stalinism have tended to embrace Orwell, while those least hostile have tended to parrot Communist slanders from his believing the working class smelled to working for MI6. Scenes From An Afterlife is essential reading for anyone interested in Orwell.

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

Alien baloney In Nexus vol 6 no 2 is another dollop of what seems to me to be obvious disinformation about UFOs and the US government. Another batch of MJ-12 documents have surfaced in America, given to a researcher called Timothy Cooper by a (now conveniently dead) source. Nexus prints some largish chunks from them. … Read more

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