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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 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 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 […]

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, […]

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

More JFK Assassination books

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] to the American people within the following year, and ordered a plan developed to implement his decision. ‘President John F. Kennedy was murdered by the Secret Service agent who drove his car in the motorcade and the act is plainly visible in the Zapruder film. WATCH THE DRIVER AND NOT KENNEDY WHEN YOU VIEW […]

Stakeknife and Mad Dog

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

Stakeknife: Britain’s Secret Agents in Ireland Martin Ingram and Greg Harkin Dublin: The O’Brien Press: 2004, £8.99, p/back Mad Dog: The rise and fall of Johnny Adair and ‘C Company’ David Lister and Hugh Jordan Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2003, £15.99, h/back     Stakeknife is a former member’s account of some of the operations of the … Read more

Sources

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] as a result of MI5’s inability to keep tabs on all suspects.’ As of this writing (late April), Gabriel Ronay’s ‘Serb death squad leader “was top CIA agent”’ (Sunday Herald 23 March 2009) had not been picked up by any London-based media. The claim has come from Jovica Stanisic, the former head of Serbia’s […]

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