Our Secret Servants: the Shayler affair

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[…] far right The first was the tale of Andy Carmichael who described in the Sunday Times (27 July 1997) his ‘five years as a fully salaried MI5 agent’ inside the National Front (NF). According to Carmichael, the National Front, in the guise of National Democrats, had planned to disrupt the Referendum Party’s General Election […]

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 […]

Looking for Trouble: The Life and Times of a Foreign Correspondent

Book cover
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

Richard Beeston Brassey’s, London and Washington, 1997 no price stated This is worth skimming through, especially for the early 1950s period when Beeston was very close to SIS operations in the Middle East. These early chapters convey very clearly how the patriotic British journalist of the period rubbed shoulders with his country’s ‘secret agents’ and … Read more

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 […]

Weather wars? (US Military weather modifications)

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] Yugoslav newspaper. Are the US military stupid enough to monkey around with the world’s weather? Of course they are! These are the people who sprayed Vietnam with Agent Orange and are now spraying Colombia with a nasty herbicide made by…………why Monsanto, of course! If the article by the Yugoslav academics is accurate, the potential […]

Splinter Factor

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

In the collection, Contemporary British History 1931-61, reviewed in this issue, there is an essay by Richard Aldrich of Salford University, one of the small but growing numbers of British academics trying to incorporate the activities of the intelligence and security services into post-war British history. In his essay on the Special Operations Executive (SOE) … Read more

Training other people’s police forces

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

This is the text of a paper read by Jonathan Bloch at a meeting of the Campaign Against the Arms Trade in London in June 1985. The purpose of this paper is to examine selected aspects of British involvement in the training of foreign police personnel both here and abroad. Not much research has been … Read more

Still hazy after all these years

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] leading up to the publication of the book Farewell America about the Kennedy assassination.(2) This may be marginalia but it is interesting marginalia nonetheless. Notably, former FBI agent Turner tells us: that the book may have resulted from contact between the Garrison inquiry and the KGB. Working for New Orleans DA Jim Garrison, Turner […]

Combat 18 and MI5: some background notes

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

Observers of the activities of the neo-nazi Combat 18 (C18), otherwise known as the National Socialist Alliance (NSA), have been treated to some bewildering documents and allegations recently. In an attempt to clarify who is saying what, and why, I will examine the origins and initial purpose of C18, the role (if any) of alleged … Read more

Agca: true confessions

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

[…] liaison with the CIA and the French SDECE Lt. Col Guiseppi Belmont, and Michael Ledeen, American journalist involved in propounding the ‘Bulgarian connection’ and former SISMI liaison agent with the CIA. ‘Super S’ is accused by Italian Justice of creating the ‘Billygate’ scandal surrounding President Jimmy Carter’s brother. If SISMI were behind the ‘Bulgarian […]

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