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 Dirty War, and, The SAS in Ireland (Book reviews)

Lobster Issue 21 (1991)

The Dirty War Martin Dillon, Hutchinson, London, 1990. The SAS in Ireland Raymond Murray, Mercier Press, Cork and Dublin, 1991 Martin Dillon is a freelance journalist in Northern Ireland with a long career behind him: editor and radio presenter for the BBC in Northern Ireland, co-author of the Penguin Special, Political Murder In Northern Ireland … Read more

Who shot JFK

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] in the 1950s the Americans (and the British) knew very little about the Soviet Union and had almost no agents on the ground. How to get an agent into the Soviet Union must have been high on many agenda in the US intelligence community; defection was one obvious way of doing it; and sending […]

Orders for the Captain

Lobster Issue 15 (1988)

[…] the Munster and Leinster Bank to handle funds from the North for weapons purchases. Having drawn a blank at weapons supplies from America, and uncovered an MI6 agent called Captain Peter Markham-Randall who came to Dublin posing as an arms dealer, Northern representatives began negotiating with a Hamburg arms dealer called Otto Schleuter and, […]

Wizard: the life and times of Nikola Tesla

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

Marc Seifer Birch Lane Press, 1996. £15.95 (plus £2 postage) from Counter Productions, PO Box 556, London SE5 0RL. In the last 15-20 years the name Nikola Tesla has been one you bump against whilst navigating a mire of (often) unreliable books churned out on the unified field, free energy, HAARP electro-magnetics, and mind control. … Read more

International Labour and the Origins of the Cold War

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)

Denis McShane Clarendon Press, Oxford, £37.50 The origins of the Cold War in Europe has been a major battle ground now for nearly 40 years. The first version of the story, written while the Cold War was still going on and produced as part of the ideological struggle, was a simple folk tale of evil … Read more

Secrets from Germany

Lobster Issue 15 (1988)

[…] relations. He refers specifically to operations aimed at incriminating Syria and Libya in terrorist activities, such as the case of Hassan el Harti, a Palestinian and Mossad agent provocateur, who was arrested in 1979, with six accomplices, on bomb charges, then allowed bail and given back his passport. The article describes a trio of […]

Parallel development: the Workers Party and the Progressive Unionist Party in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] was a dangerous and particularly nasty organisation. It also welcomed the National Front’s ‘political soldiers’ when they set up shop in Belfast; and Bingham served as election agent to George Seawright, a fascist and sectarian bigot who had even managed to get himself expelled from Paisley’s DUP. Seawright had come from Glasgow, where he’d […]

Echelon

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] key words. They claim that ECHELON automatically analyses most e-mail messaging for ‘precursor’ data which assists intelligence agencies to determine targets. According to former Canadian Security Establishment agent Mike Frost, a voice recognition system called Oratory has been used for some years to intercept diplomatic calls. The report recommends a variety of measures for […]

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