Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] a businessman. The late Alexis Forter, on the other hand, is mentioned and it rather sticks in the craw that Dorril refers to him as an ‘ace agent runner’. Tom Bower’s description of Forter – ‘renowned for sending agents across the border into Russia from which they never returned’ – is rather better, although […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
Do they talk like this? At < www.lewrockwell.com/cummings/cummings29.html > there is a very interesting piece by Richard Cummings about the CIA and publishing; agents and operations are named. At the top of the article is this quote. ‘We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose … Read more
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] apologies for being late, but this issue is late. The explanation is that the Ramsay half of this operation was persuaded to spend April as an election agent for the Labour party. (And lost!). If the Labour Party and the Lobster seems an odd combination, it is worth pointing out that several of the […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] people who were involved at the beginning of the American UFO saga and who appear in the Kennedy assassination story. The other one is the former FBI agent Guy Bannister, who had a minor role in the Kennedy assassination, running Oswald at one time in some domestic anti-Cuban operations. Fred Lee Crisman has a […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] make this abundantly clear. MI5’s First World War offshoot PMS2 is given only a cursory mention by Curry. There is no reference to its employment of the agent provocateur William Rickard, who in 1917 framed a family of socialists (the Wheeldons) on trumped-up charges of plotting to assassinate Lloyd George. The Zinoviev Letter is […]
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
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 […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] for giving Tony Blair to the world. You have really done a wonderful thing….’ ( great applause ) From the stage Blair then thanked the Labour Party agent in Sedgefield, his constituency: ‘….for the time you took to talk to me and the help you gave me when we I met you all those […]