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

The Murder of Hilda Murrell: Conspiracy Theories Old and New

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] minutes from where we’re sitting now’ (Marble Arch). In another interview, (28) he tells us that ‘the person in charge of the attack was a ‘former MI5 agent who has left the service to run a private detection agency.’ Murray has sent key names to the West Mercia force, but to no avail. (29) […]

PERMINDEX: The International Trade in Disinformation

Lobster Issue 2 (1983)

[…] was linked to anti-Communist Ferenc Nagy, once head of the provisional government of Hungary. (He was forced to resign in 1947.) “Another was Louis Bloomfield, an American agent who now plays the role of a businessman from Canada (who) established secret ties in Rome with Deputies of the Christian Democrats and neo-Fascist parties.” This […]

Sources

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 […]

Our Friends in the North-East

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 […]

Intercepting Number Stations

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

Pissing in or pissing out? The ‘big tent’ of Green Alliance

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 […]

Maria Novotny: From Prague With Love

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 […]

Churchill and The Focus

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[…] former Bradford Labour MP and Nobel Peace Prize winner for 1933, Norman Angell, and Henry Wickham Steed, a veteran diehard Tory, former editor of The Times and agent of the Czechoslovak government. (3) A month later, after a rousing Commons speech on the subject of Germany on April 6 1936, the BNANC approached Churchill, […]

The Assassination of John Kennedy: An Alternative Hypothesis

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 […]

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