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 […]

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

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

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 […]

A conversation with Peter Dale Scott

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

[…] of its arms were given to Alpha 66, which was the biggest group in it, a few days before the assassination. Apropos of Oswald being a penetration agent and an informant, there was this odd Sheriff who made a report that he obviously wasn’t meant to that Oswald had been hanging around this 3128 […]

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 […]

Way out West: a conspiracy theory

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] ‘Proven Connection’. West’s view of Hollis as a Soviet mole is partly based on the possible connections with Claud Cockburn who he sees as being a ‘Comintern Agent’. The two certainly knew each other in their university days. It is the view of the anti-Hollis faction that during his interrogation in 1969, as part […]

Electronic Privacy and the Encryption Debate

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

Electronic Privacy and the Encryption Debate Attempts by intelligence and law enforcement to control new technologies Intelligence/law enforcement concerns Intelligence and law enforcement agencies world-wide have in recent years become concerned that more widespread use of advanced technologies, such as encryption, digital technologies and the Internet, will compromise their ability to fight crime and terrorism. … Read more

Stalker, Conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] think that there might be a common thread behind the killings which might lead to similar incidents which had been hidden away. He also suspected that an agent provocateur was at work and that his information may have been bogus. The Mounsey inquiry The withdrawal of co-operation by the RUC Special Branch was probably […]

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