The View From MI5

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] who are MPs) by removing the embargo on CP membership for members of the Labour Party.” Wilson had as a “close confidant” Wilf Owens MP, a Czech agent. Wilson “shielded John Stonehouse” Wilson ignored MI5 advice on what to do about Soviet agents in Britain. Another recurring theme is the alleged link between Labour […]

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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

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Military LSD testing in the U.K.

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] them. As part of that programme, evaluation is carried out of the potential hazard from chemicals that may be utilised by an aggressor as a chemical warfare agent. An appreciation of the effects of LSD on man and the knowledge that LSD could be synthesised led to research in the 1960s into whether LSD […]

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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 […]

The Anti-CND Groups. Ingrams

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

‘The Men Who Are Dying To Win’, in Sanity February 1984. A very good article with much valuable information on the American connection which neatly dovetails with the article in Lobster 3. More on Francis Leonard Holihan. He was linked to the Heritage Foundation and, it is claimed, misappropriated funds from them intended for the … Read more

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The Neave letters

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] for hypocrisy and one of Paz’s photographs was used to illustrate an article about Pinochet’s speech in the Chilean press. In 1978 Michael Townley, an American DINA agent resident in Chile, was expelled to the United States for questioning about the Letelier assassination. He subsequently turned state’s evidence and testified about his key role […]

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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

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Searchlight again

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] know what Larry O’Hara is. Not just an errand boy for the nazis, now he has made it into the big time as an informant for an agent for the SIS.(9) I suppose it is ironic that Robin Ramsey, who runs one of the two Lobster magazines now doing the rounds and got his […]

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West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] a decade later, he picked up a copy of Philip Agee’s CIA Diary and found an old friend of his and fellow activist named as a CIA agent. And: ‘Instantaneous sucked-in breath, a heart-rending cry of horror, I am literally propelled out of my seat and backwards two full meters……I stand there, staring at […]

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Deep Black: the secrets of space espionage (Book Review) & Journals

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] failure to spot the storm to the subsequent reinforcement of the CIA contingent following a twin-track policy of supporting anti-Khomeini exile groups outside Iran while building up agent networks within the first post-revolutionary government of Medhi Basargan. They succeeded in winning over Bani Sadr (President of Iran), Amir Entesam (Deputy Prime Minister) and Admiral […]

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