Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] and the South Africans. Harold Wilson’s Cabinet Office is infiltrated. Rhodesian agents murder one of their own operatives who has turned against them in London, and another agent is killed by British intelligence after they and Special Branch monitor his activities. The agent, Geoff Dominy ….’ (emphasis added) Typical of Searchlight to make a […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] as conventional ones, and the BLU-82 has been described as the nearest thing to a nuclear explosion. It would be an effective way of dispersing a chemical agent and destroying much of the evidence. (Why they would do this, given that the intention was to display a willingness to use chemical weapons against Iraq, […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] No I’, Georges Abdallah, and who served as a communications channel between the imprisoned FARL leader and his lieutenants, revealed that he had been a salaried DGSE agent since 1984 and had been regularly informing the DGSE of FARL’s exchanges. As if this were not all, Mazurier revealed that in the secret service war […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] at EARL. Records show that in 1971 the CIA provided EARL with $37,000 to test a classified glycolate compound, known only as EA3167. A potentially incapacitating psycho-chemical agent, EA3167 was tested on human subjects, including prisoners from Holmesburg Prison. One of the main objectives of the CIA in these tests were to synthesise radio-labeled […]
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 25 (1993) £££
[…] competition between agents from the CIA, the Soviet KGB and the Shin Bet to see who could most quickly capture a deer in the wild. The CIA agent entered the forest and returned three days later with a deer on a leash. The KGB agent came back after two days carrying bloody pieces of […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] former Bradford Labour MP and Nobel Peace Prize winner for 1933, Norman Angell, and Henry Wickham Steed, a veteran diehard Tory, former editor of The Times and agent of the Czechoslovak government. (3) A month later, after a rousing Commons speech on the subject of Germany on April 6 1936, the BNANC approached Churchill, […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] make this abundantly clear. MI5’s First World War offshoot PMS2 is given only a cursory mention by Curry. There is no reference to its employment of the agent provocateur William Rickard, who in 1917 framed a family of socialists (the Wheeldons) on trumped-up charges of plotting to assassinate Lloyd George. The Zinoviev Letter is […]
Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
[…] took on a distinctly bizarre look. Eddowes’ book, November 22nd: How They Killed Kennedy (3) suggested that Lee Harvey Oswald had been replaced by a look-a-like KGB agent when he went to the Soviet Union. (4) Following this to its logical conclusion, Eddowes reportedly spent over $10,000 in October 1981 on legal fees and […]