Gone but not forgotten: a further update on Di

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] 20 September 1997; David Leppard, ‘Diana driver was secret informer’, The Sunday Times, 26 February 2006. Richard Palmer and Peter Allen, ‘Diana probe: bid to force secret agent to reveal all’, The Express, 15 August 2005; Peter Allen, ‘Spies in constant touch with driver’, The Express, 28 November 2005. Its unclear if the judicial […]

The crony capitalists: a fond farewell to some regular guys?

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] Padreda, a fellow officer of the Dade County Republican Party. Padreda, a former intelligence officer for deposed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, hired Jeb Bush as the leasing agent for a $1.4 million building Padreda had used federal money to build – money from the corrupt Department of Housing and Urban Development.(34) Four years earlier, […]

Steady as she goes: Labour and the spooks

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] on Astra notepaper – showing that a trio of British special forces were in Brussels the day before the Bull murder, accompanied by Astra director and SIS agent, Stephan Kock.(9) It was Kock who, having removed James as chair of Astra, began using it to do arms deals with the Iraqis – which had […]

The View from the Bridge. Psy-ops. Common Cause. Larry Flynt. Hepple/Matthews. John Ware

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] Cause-funded Trade Union Centre for Education in Democratic Socialism in the mid-1970s; and that ‘Jack Hill’ and ‘David Williams’ were two pseudonyms of the same person, an agent for a Labour MP, now dead. But which one? Match me, Sydney! Vicky Woods in the Sunday Telegraph 30 November 1997: ‘I don’t understand why Jonathan […]

Heritage of Stone; JFK and JFK

Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

[…] kind of false defector organised by Naval Intelligence. When the KGB failed to take the bait he came back to start a new career as a COINTELPRO agent, flirting with Marxism and pro- Cuban activities. (Incidentally, while a great deal of research has concentrated on his time in New Orleans with the Fair Play […]

Trimble

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] at the time of writing Trimble’s long term survival looks very much in doubt. Interestingly, the diehards’ explanation of Trimble’s treachery is that he is an M15 agent! One last point of interest: McDonald reveals the identities of a key group of advisers that Trimble has gathered around him. Ruth Dudley Edwards, the historian […]

Golitsyn

Lobster Issue 5 (1984)

[…] blows some (perhaps a great many) Soviet operations, tells his listeners that the KGB has penetrated everything, and then adds (a) that Henry Kissinger is a Soviet agent and (b) he, Goliniewski, is in fact the surviving son of the last Czar of Russia, and that contrary to all reports the Russian Royal family […]

KO-ing the Kennedys: The Kennedys and State Secrets

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister. It is not clear that he did so. However, a little while later, in an unrelated episode, Wolkoff was asked by an agent MI5 had planted in the Right Club if she would send a message (the text of which had been drafted by MI5) to Germany by giving […]

The Big Breach

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

Responsibilities, old boy The Big Breach Richard Tomlinson Cutting Edge, Edinburgh, 2000, £9.99   I found it hard to ‘see’ this because so much of its contents have been published in the media. There have been some changes – names altered – since the newspaper versions; and I am told that the original hardback version … Read more

The Man from the FRU

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] be depressed that senior police personnel could be so far off the pace? How should we react to the reported recent death of Force Research Unit (FRU) agent Brian Nelson in the midst of the reaction to the publication of the summary of the Stevens Report? (1) Was this tidying-up by a murderous state? […]

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