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 […]

War and peace plots

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] the document were arguing that the Foreign Office should back the Canaris-German resistance-Vatican proposal. This report had to cross the desk of Kim Philby – a Soviet agent – before it could be officially circulated to Ministers. Philby duly rejected the document, thus blocking any formal discussion of a peace deal that would be […]

Spooks

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] Petersen, Tiger Men, Macmillan, Australia, 1988). Dick Noone: MI6 commanding the special operations base in Sabah, Borneo, 1970-71, died 1973. (Ibid.). Peter Langan: Used as an MI5 agent against the IRA in 60s (Langan, A Life With Food, Bloomsbury, London, 1990). Mike Jeffrey: Manager of Jimi Hendrix, MI5 counter-intelligence agent 50s. (Victor Sampson, Hendrix, […]

The Activity, Grenada

Lobster Issue 3 (1984)

See note (1) James ‘Bo’ Gritz, linked to the US Army Intelligence Support Activity (ISA), was detained with Lance Corp. Edward Trimmer whilst trying to enter Thailand. (Guardian 23rd September 1983) They were apparently on another mission looking for American POWs. In December, for the first time since 1975, American troops were in Laos investigating … Read more

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 […]

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

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 […]

Cyberspace Wars: Microprocessing vs. Big Brother

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] exchange, the ADL apparently enjoys privileged access to police and FBI files. This is what happened in San Francisco, where a police intelligence officer (and former CIA agent in El Salvador) named Tom Gerard has been indicted for passing confidential police intelligence files to the local ADL office. Another principal in this case is […]

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 […]

Notes from the underground part 3: British fascism 1983-6

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[…] Fletcher, ‘What’s all this fuss about the police woman who was shot outside the Libyan embassy? We should not shed any tears over the death of an agent of the Thatcher regime.’ (50) His views weren’t universally shared, and by October 1985 an Organisers’ Bulletin was urging members to ‘make an effort to be […]

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