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

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 […]

At War With the Truth

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

The true story of Searchlight agent Tim Hepple This is Larry O’Hara’s reply to the Searchight pamphlet At War With Society (which, in turn, was a response to Larry’s A Lie Too Far). Unlike A Lie Too Far, however, this has been professionally desk-topped, edited, proof-read and printed. This is 28 pages, many of […]

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

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[…] 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 […]

How many divisions does the Pope have?

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] outbreak of another world war. This was predicted in March 1948 by Gehlen, who also announced at this point the diabolical role of Borman, as a Soviet agent, in masterminding these developments. International events failed to follow this timetable. To be sure the February 1948 communist seizure of power in Czechoslovakia pointed in the […]

Some examples of corporate, cultural and state PR

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] Hollywood movies, Turkey has put its own spin on espionage and made its most expensive movie ever – Valley of the Wolves – which follows an intelligence agent as he travels to Iraq to avenge the death of a Turkish soldier. The Times 17 February 2006. PRs always look to the major set pieces […]

A Who’s Who of Appeasers, 1939-41

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] the Foreign Office and MI6. (Christie; A. Read and D. Fisher, Colonel Z, 1984) De Courcy, Kenneth Hugh B. 1909. Secretary to the Imperial Policy Group; personal agent to Sir Stewart Menzies, Chief of Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from November 1939; reported also to Butler (q.v.) and to Chamberlain during the late 1930s on […]

The thirteenth pillar – the death of Di reconsidered

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] the celebrities.'(53) Richard Tomlinson believed that he was an MI6 informer paid to spy on Diana and Dodi. Other sources claim that Paul was also a Mossad agent and an informant for the French foreign intelligence service. As Head of Security at the Ritz, Paul would have been ideally placed to observe and monitor […]

The View from the Bridge. British American Project. Teddy Taylor MP. New Labour

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[…] the people who had attended its early meetings, among whom was….. David Moller. Now join up the dots. Hanky-panky in the British UFO world The former Searchlight agent provocateur, Tim Hepple, is now cruising the British UFO world under the guise of ‘Tim Matthews’ of the ‘Lancashire UFO Society’. A major attempt to spread […]

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