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

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[…] Butkevicius, was with Surikov at the London Centre.) We shall see that a third member, Ruslan Saidov, is said to have been paid as a CIA contract agent. One of the alleged purposes of the meeting at the villa – but not the only one – was to give the Yeltsin “family” what it […]

The Gospel according to Saint Jim

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] octane fantasist and paranoiac. Yet Spiesel was produced as a key witness and claimed to have been present with Clay Shaw and the aviator and low-grade CIA agent David Ferrie at a meeting whose main topic of conversation was how to murder the President. Why wasn’t Spiesel checked more thoroughly? What did this fiasco […]

Coach into pumpkin: some problems with Paget

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

Operation Paget, the investigation by the team led by Sir John Stevens into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, briefly tried to investigate a collision between a white Fiat Uno and Princess Diana’s BMW. The head-on collision happened on 22 March 1996, on Cromwell Road, Kensington, when a casino employee lost control of a … Read more

The Strength of the Wolf

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs Douglas Valentine London/New York: Verso, 2004, h/back, £20   This comes garlanded with praise from Jim Hougan and Anthony Summers. The praise is justified: this is, as Hougan says, ‘a ground-breaking work of investigative reporting’; and it is, as Summers says, ‘a … Read more

The Enemy Within; the IRA’s War Against the British

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

Vindication is a dish still edible when cold

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] I had taken from the headquarters of the South African Information Department in Pretoria) proving that he had been framed. Martin Dollinchek, alias Martin Donaldson (a BOSS agent who was captured when the CIA, MI6 and BOSS mounted a joint attempt to invade the Seychelles in an attempt to bring Boss’s agent of influence […]

Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Spooks (Lobster 22) for Cohen, Brooman-White, De Haan, see Lobster 9 and … Read more

CIA and Drug-Trafficking by Contra Supporters

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, […]

The New European Order – judges, modernising conservatives and Tony Blair

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] rights but they agree on a lot more. Alongside this development, the thesis continues, a class of pan-European investigating judges is also emerging. It operates as an agent for a security and law enforcement programme that will come to serve the interests of the new order even if its relationship to it is currently […]

Re:

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 […]

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