Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] than increased surveillance and trans-national co-operation once the pass has already been sold on free movement of peoples, goods, services and pathogens. The security forces’ role as agent of state formation and of socio-political control needs to be taken much more seriously in this context the terrorism that fuels acceptance of surveillance and […]
Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
[…] took on a distinctly bizarre look. Eddowes’ book, November 22nd: How They Killed Kennedy (3) suggested that Lee Harvey Oswald had been replaced by a look-a-like KGB agent when he went to the Soviet Union. (4) Following this to its logical conclusion, Eddowes reportedly spent over $10,000 in October 1981 on legal fees and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
[…] the people who are known to have had such advance knowledge were low level ‘street people’ – a stripper, a waitress, a small-time right-winger, a minor intelligence agent. (13) The assassination conspiracy was leaky. And this suggests very strongly that we are dealing with something other than a professional job by the intelligence services […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
Did Churchill reveal the pending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to Roosevelt two weeks before it happened? Below is what purports to a transcript of a telephone conversation recorded by the Germans during World War 2. If genuine, it shows, as has been alleged in the past, that Roosevelt was indeed warned of the impending … Read more
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 […]
Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££
6. Peter John Caselton – SA agent sentenced to four years for raids on London offices of various black organisations. Bertl Wedin, former Swedish military intelligence officer, found not guilty. Caselton worked with professional burglar, Edward Aspinall, through Isle of Man front co. Africa Aviation Consultants (G 12th April 1983). Details of court proceedings […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] a member of a Roman Catholic sect, a retired rent boy and someone who was later splashed across the front page of The Observer as an SIS agent. We gave a break to a minicab driver who nonetheless carried on sending us abusive faxes for years. There was a troublesome former Private Eye man […]
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 […]