Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)
[…] the August 1994 edition of their magazine, Socialist Standard, on page 126, we find this paragraph. ‘Feeling paranoid? Not as much as they are. According to BOSS agent, Robin Ramsay (In an interview cut from a 1981 Panorama programme, but printed verbatim elsewhere), British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing […]
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 […]
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
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, […]
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
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] me if I am wrong) that the German actually had an MI5 Personal File (‘PF’). Are we to take it from this that Haushofer was a British agent? Robertson’s obvious knowledge of some background at least is suggestive as is his well-known membership of the Double Cross Committee which ran deception operations and turned […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] striking Yorkshire miners; an account of the crucial role of the senior administrative officer of the NUM, based on the widely-held view that Roger Windsor was MI5 agent; and a brutal portrayal of the machinations and skulduggery which characterise the black underbelly of state politics. Most of the leading actors in this drama are […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)
[…] actually the Labour Committee for Transatlantic Understanding (p. 28); and its chair, Lane Kirkland, was certainly pro-NATO, but where is the evidence he was a ‘former CIA agent’? The Economic League did not come after Moral Re-armament (p. 28). Common Cause did not come after IRIS (p. 29). Other unsourced assertions include the funding […]