Two views of Dorril: MI6: Fifty years of Special Operations

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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 […]

Maury Island UFO: the Crisman Conspiracy

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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 […]

The View from the Bridge

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

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] to Wallace. (The journalist was Robert Fisk.) But Pencourt didn’t pursue the ‘press officer in Northern Ireland’. Up popped the late Peter Bessel, Liberal MP and CIA agent, to steer them towards Jeremy Thorpe and Norman Scott instead. The second significant snippet was the news that Jonathan Aitken had been hand-carrying messages from James […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Curried Knight: Maxwell Knight and the MI5 in-house history

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 […]

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 […]

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