Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] think you’ll agree that there was no mention of any wound in the post mortem. Andrew Rosthorn writes: Kenneth de Courcy, 80 year old former personal agent for Churchill’s wartime MI6 chief, Sir Stewart Menzies, says that two files have been stolen from his personnal archive, which is preserved at the Hoover Institution […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] is the explanation for this unbelievable piece of political camouflage? The only credible answer to date is supplied by Lester Coleman, who claims to have been an agent of the CIA and the lesser known Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) for eight years. In his Trail of the Octoptus: Front Beirut to Lockerbie -Inside the […]
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 20 (1990) £££
[…] on the door of an apartment owned by one of Shaw’s boyfriends: it was opened by a fellow named Robin Drury. Drury, a homosexual, had been the ‘agent’ of Christine Keeler during the time of the British sex scandal known as the Profumo Affair in 1963. Like Eddowes I had often wondered whether Shaw […]
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 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 31 (June 1996) £££
Langley Pierce Interproducts, Perth, Scotland, 1994, £9.95 Strange little book, 90 pages listing and, it claims, identifying the shortwave radio stations used by the world’s intelligence services to broadcast coded messages – groups of numbers – to field agents and stations. Want to eavesdrop on Mossad’s numbers? SIS’s? The KGB’s? etc etc. Is any of … Read more
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 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] profits, £9bn and £9.8bn respectively. (2) This was followed by curious press reports that both Shell and BP had hired ex-MI6 staff and a former German intelligence agent to infiltrate Greenpeace (3) and that Tesco had asked MI5 to investigate the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. In an obscure spat about salmon […]
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 […]