Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)
[…] in the machinery of the Iranian government.’ In my view the main role in that coup was played by the British. Lieutenant-General Fazlolah Zahedi was a British agent. Major General Hassan Akhavi was the brain behind the Arfaa’s group . The Rashidian brothers were all British agents. The British managed to obtain American support […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] McCarthy.(17) And there’s also the example of an American student who, carrying out research in Poland in 1970, was almost signed up by a Polish Security Service agent posing as a journalist.(18) It was not only academics who were recruited. One of America’s most highly regarded magicians, John Mulholland, was hired to ‘teach intelligence […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
Martin Dillon, Doubleday, London, 1994. This one, the third book called ‘the enemy within’ of last year, slipped by me at the time: I didn’t notice a single review. Most of it describes the IRA’s various campaigns against the British, not something I am interested in. However there is one rivetting chapter called, ‘The Intelligence … Read more
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] 1988, after Congressional support for the Contras was terminated altogether.(15) By this time Matta Ballesteros was sought by the DEA for the murder in Mexico of DEA agent Enrique Camarena. Two of his associates and co-defendants in that murder case, Rafael Caro Quintero and Miguel Felix Gallardo of the then dominant Mexican Guadalajara cartel, […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] Extreme Prejudice (London: Robinson, 2005) there are two pages about the late Lord Mountbatten, recycling the claims of some on the right that he was a Soviet agent (without any evidence) and there is this: ‘Many within British intelligence circles knew him as a visitor to Kincora, a boy’s home used by the paedophile […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)
[…] the August 1994 edition of their magazine, Socialist Standard, on page 126, we find this paragraph. ‘Feeling paranoid? Not as much as they are. According to BOSS agent, Robin Ramsay (In an interview cut from a 1981 Panorama programme, but printed verbatim elsewhere), British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing […]