The 1953 Coup in Iran: an Iranian insider’s view

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 […]

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 […]

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

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

The view from the bridge

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

Fifth Column. New directions for parapolitics: investigating the trans-national security elite

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] than increased surveillance and trans-national co-operation once the pass has already been sold on free movement of peoples, goods, services and pathogens. The security forces’ role as agent of state formation and of socio-political control needs to be taken much more seriously in this context – the terrorism that fuels acceptance of surveillance and […]

The Pinay Circle and Destabilisation in Europe

Lobster Issue 18 (1989)

[…] Giulio Andreotti, former Italian Prime Minister; Portuguese putschist General Antonio de Spinola; former Franco minister and senior Opus Dei member Silva Munoz; and Vatican prelate and BND agent Monsignore Brunello. Paul Violet, Jean Violet’s son, is one of Chirac’s closest advisors, nicknamed ‘the adjutant’ by Canard Enchaine. Langemann also reports that Sir Arthur Franks […]

Clippings Digest to May 31st. 1984

Lobster Issue 5 (1984)

[…] and people. Guardian 30th April (letters) Gay clubs raided in Soho: “Staff in gay clubs nearby said police has (sic) been making daily raids.” Times 17th May Agent provocateurs operating in 6 police authorities. Guardian 19th May (letters)     Detailed account of police raid on London gay bookshop in Rights (NCCL) Summer 1984 […]

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