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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The World That Never Was. A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents by Alex Butterworth

Lobster Issue

[…] Rachkovsky, in particular being central to this tale, with infiltration of revolutionary groups; his recruiting of revolutionaries and turning them into informers; the use of his star agent Abraham Hekkelman (aka Landesen, Arkady Harting) to foment violent acts as a pretext for state repression and manipulation of interstate relationships; not to forget his use […]

Geheim – CIA in England

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

This is from No 3 volume 7, 1988 of Geheim, the German member of the international brotherhood of parapolitics mags (of which Lobster is apparently the smallest, poorest and least frequent). The good news for those of us too lazy to learn anything but English is that Geheim is going to produce an English- language … Read more

Did the CIA sink a ship-load of Leyland buses in the Thames?

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

Veterans of a notorious Miami-based CIA dirty tricks team have boasted that they were helped by British Intelligence officers to sink an East German ship loaded with British-built Leyland buses. Three years after the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the MV Magdeburg was hit by a Japanese ship in the River Thames. When … Read more

Magazines, journals etc.

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] evidence the contained conecrning war ‘preplanning’. ‘Gladio’ and NATO’s Terrorist Network. Investigating the allegations of NATO involvement in terrorism. Gulf War Launches ‘New World’ Order’. Ex-CIA chief agent Phillip Agee’s comprehensive analysis of American military operations. Economic League: Political Surveillance. Including an unpublished essay by the League on the State of the Left, Anarchists […]

Spinning the European Union: pro-European propaganda campaigns in the British media

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

See note (1) This article explores the three pro-European Union propaganda campaigns mounted to date: in 1962-63 to secure public support following Britain’s first application to join the EU; in 1970-71 to prepare the public for accession; and in 1974-75 to ensure continued EU membership in the 1975 Referendum. For simplicity, the term European Union … Read more

Out of the blue and into the black

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] links the UVF specifically to the murder of 23 year-old Sharon McKenna, in 1993 and implicates Mark Haddock, a UVF Commander who was also a Special Branch agent, in this killing. Haddock is currently on remand for charges arising from paramilitary activity and his unit is believed to have killed around a dozen people […]

The Andropov Deception

Lobster Issue 10 (1986)

[…] Union – source-of-all-terrorism line, and general apologist for US (and UK) support for some of the most obnoxious regimes in the “free world”? Crozier’s “hero”, a NATO agent called Peter Lock (is Crozier telling us NATO has its own Intelligence service?) is. an emotionless psychopath for whom “killing caused a sexual swelling”. (p. 6) […]

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