The TWA Flight 800 crash: was it missiles?

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] around. ‘He also told me that if you would pick up a fragment and call another investigator over to look at it with obvious interest, an FBI agent would come over and take it out of your hands and you would never see it again.’ (26) The positioning of the wreckage was another problem […]

Lockerbie, the octopus and the Maltese double cross

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] is the explanation for this unbelievable piece of political camouflage? The only credible answer to date is supplied by Lester Coleman, who claims to have been an agent of the CIA and the lesser known Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) for eight years. In his Trail of the Octopus: From Beirut to Lockerbie — Inside […]

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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 […]

The View From the Bridge: Gerry Gable. Melita Norwood. Kosovo. Tomlinson

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] to make do with the Observer journalist Farzad Bazoft, executed by the Iraqi government for spying. (Was Petty thereby telling us that Bazoft was, in fact, an agent of MI6?) Mark Hollingsworth described another such I/Op, also run through the Sunday Telegraph, in the Guardian 30 March 2000. But then the Sunday Telegraph is […]

Spy Master: The Betrayal of MI5

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

[…] conclusion possible from all of this is that Hollis was personally responsible for the Profumo debacle from start to finish. If Hollis was acting as a GRU agent, he couldn’t have acted with greater effectiveness.’ (p. 226) The facts are somewhat different. As early as mid-1961 Ward was being run by the Security Service […]

Silent Coup: the Removal of Richard Nixon

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Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] from Colody and Gettlin only in their candidate for ‘Deep Throat’. Instead of Haig, Newman suggested the late Bob Kunkle (my phonetic spelling) who had been Special Agent in Washington in charge of the FBI’s investigation of Watergate. Kunkle — not named in Colodny and Gettlin, or in Hougan — is a plausible candidate […]

Hitler’s Traitor: Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] quotations – to show that the big bogey figure of 1939/45 was Winston Churchill….duping Roosevelt….duping Stalin…….pointlessly intransigent toward Hitler etc. Kilzer’s theory that Bormann was a Communist agent has actually been around since the early 1950s. (2) No evidence has ever been produced to substantiate this view. His book is basically a study of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] to Wallace. (The journalist was Robert Fisk.) But Pencourt didn’t pursue the ‘press officer in Northern Ireland’. Up popped the late Peter Bessel, Liberal MP and CIA agent, to steer them towards Jeremy Thorpe and Norman Scott instead. The second significant snippet was the news that Jonathan Aitken had been hand-carrying messages from James […]

British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2

Lobster Issue 10 (1986)

[…] STOCKHOLM 1945 CONTROLLER NORTHERN AREA 1955 1ST SEC (VISA) COPENHAGEN 1956 JEDDAH 1958 FO 1961 RETIRED CARR, JOHN DICKSON WELL KNOWN THRILLER WRITER CP WORKER – MI5 AGENT 1930-40’s CARREL, IAN MI5 (W) SECURITY LIAISON OFFICER HONG KONG HEAD OF REGISTRY MID 60’s. K7 COUNTERING SOVIET PENETRATION. RETIRED LATE 70’s CARTER, PETER ANTHONY CMG […]

Ratlines: how the Vatican’s Nazi networks betrayed Western intelligence to the Soviets

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] criminals were printed at the Franciscan printing press in Rome. Both the US Counter Intelligence Corps CIC) and Britain’s military intelligence knew what was happening. Indeed, CIC agent Robert Mudd had a spy within Dragonovic’s organisation. The CIC arranged a burglary of Dragonovic’s office and photographed his records. Mudd concluded that “all this activity […]

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