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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

…MI5 goes on forever

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] March 1981, there was this snippet: ‘Why all the fuss about the Panorama programme on British Intelligence? Eventually there was just one cut — Gordon Winter, BOSS agent, former freelance journalist, in a pre-title sequence: “British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team […]

The CIA: A history of torture

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] guerrillas and killed the following month. At the time of his death, both Uruguayan policemen and their victims testified to his role as a torturer. Another CIA agent, the Cuban Manuel Hevia Cosculluela, was later to reveal that Mitrione had once tortured four homeless men to death as a demonstration for his Uruguayan students. […]

Oscar Wilde’s Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy and the First World War

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] and his supporters. A friend of the Asquiths (Maud Allen) was appearing, as a dancer, in a production of Wilde’s Salome. Pemberton-Billing said she was a German agent corrupting British morals and sapping the nation’s ability to see the war through to a grim conclusion. Allen was an easy target, she had once modelled […]

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