Baghdad’s Spy: A Personal Memoir of Espionage and Intrigue from Iraq to London

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] an important and interesting book but rather hard to describe because it contains so much. At its heart is Souza’s father, an Iraqi Anglophile, who became SIS’s agent in Iraq, and later in London. Using her firsthand knowledge supplemented by her father’s papers, Souza has created a classic of the espionage genre: I know […]

Shorts: James Rusbridger. Illuminati. Gordievsky. Cavendish

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] the Germans; and the authenticity of the disinformation was bolstered by charging Dreyfus with the leak! A modern myth? In a piece about the arrest of Soviet agent in the CIA, Rick Ames, the Sunday Telegraph, 27 February, 1994, said that Ames ‘recruited Soviet agents, ruthlessly betraying at least 10, knowing they would be […]

Loose cuts and short ends

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] It is improbable that MI5 (presumably) would have chosen someone like Wright for the job, presumably, of penetrating the KAU. And if this ‘Peter Wright’ was an agent for MI5, say, why would the Kenyan authorities have expelled him? ‘Wright’, surely, on being harassed, would simply have said, ‘Call the office.’ It might be […]

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 […]

At War With the Truth

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

The true story of Searchlight agent Tim Hepple This is Larry O’Hara’s reply to the Searchight pamphlet At War With Society (which, in turn, was a response to Larry’s A Lie Too Far). Unlike A Lie Too Far, however, this has been professionally desk-topped, edited, proof-read and printed. This is 28 pages, many of […]

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 […]

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

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 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 […]

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