Spooks and the EEC

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

The CIA In a recent ‘Witness Seminar’ on the 1975 British referendum on entry into the European Economic Community (EEC), the Conservative MP, Sir Richard Body, who in 1975 was co-chair of the anti-EEC National Referendum Campaign, had this to say: ‘At the very beginning of the campaign two CIA agents came to see me … Read more

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 […]

The Enemy Within: Thatcher’s Secret War Against the Miners; GB84

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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 […]

More Notes on the Right

Lobster Issue 13 (1987)

[…] and Butler turn up in California with Ivor Benson (South African), Ray White (Australian), David Irving (British) and Eustace Mullins (American). Ivor Benson is a racist apologist/ agent for the South African government.(9) Ray White is the managing director of Veritas Publishing, Australia’s leading publisher/distributor of racist and anti-Semitic literature.(10) Eustace Mullins I’ve just […]

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. […]

Historical Notes: MI5 and the Wilson Plot. USA and Chile. Hess

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 […]

Two Sides of Ireland (Book reviews)

Lobster Issue 13 (1987)

[…] ammunition to the border on 2nd April 1970. These preparations for military defence of the Catholic population did not go unnoticed by the British: indeed, a British agent calling himself Captain Peter Markham-Randall was exposed in November 1969 when he came to Dublin to uncover the extent to which Eire was prepared to go […]

Sources

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 […]

Mind Control and the American Government

Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

[…] affected by electromagnetic means. Does RHIC-EDOM exist? The term first appeared in a strange 1969 book, Were We Controlled? written by one Lincoln Lawrence, a former FBI agent turned journalist. (36) A careful comparison of Lawrence’s work with the MKULTRA files declassified ten years later indicates a strong possibility that the writer did indeed […]

The View From MI5

Lobster Issue 13 (1987)

[…] who are MPs) by removing the embargo on CP membership for members of the Labour Party.” Wilson had as a “close confidant” Wilf Owens MP, a Czech agent. Wilson “shielded John Stonehouse” Wilson ignored MI5 advice on what to do about Soviet agents in Britain. Another recurring theme is the alleged link between Labour […]

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