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

Fifth Column. New directions for parapolitics: investigating the trans-national security elite

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The League of Empire Loyalists and the Defenders of the American Constitution

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] military men.(1) DAC co-founder former Marine Corps Lieutenant General Pedro del Valle was also a friend of Admiral Charles Freeman (Ret.). (2) Freeman became the U. S. agent for Kenneth De Courcy’s Intelligence Digest after the war. De Courcy, in turn, had extensive contacts with far-right British military and intelligence circles favoured by the […]

After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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