US involvement in the Fiji coup d’etat

Lobster Issue 14 (1987)

[…] in Suva. Initially the office was operated by Valentine Suazo, with well known CIA connections, an expert in subverting Latin American trade unionists, and exposed by ex-CIA agent Philip Agee. The Suva office was funded by NED “to act as a liaison on publications, education and membership services for a number of unions” (HR […]

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, […]

ELF: from Mind Control to Mind Wars

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

ELF: from Mind Control to Mind Wars Over the past six months I have been given a large (and still growing) pile of documents about extremely low frequency electromagnetic radiation, or ELF for short. This is not really Lobster territory, nor am I scientifically equipped to synthesise this material. However, this subject seems to me … Read more

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 Ulster Citizen Army smear

Lobster Issue 14 (1987)

[…] he was having an affair with the man’s wife”…”Senior UDA men revealed that Wallace had tipped them off that the man he wanted murdered was a communist agent trying to infiltrate Loyalist paramilitaries … Wallace has pretended to be a press man when ‘tipping them off that the Antrim teacher was the leader of […]

First supplement to ‘A Who’s Who of the British Secret State’

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY 39-45 ADVISER TO SEFTON DELMER POLITICAL WARFARE EXECUTIVE AUTHOR McDOWELL, THOMAS B. MI5 (THE CECIL KING DIARIES 1970-74) WW2 ULSTER RIFLES 50-60’s MI5 STAFF SUBSEQUENTLY AGENT BARRISTER, BUSINESSMAN -83 MANAGING EDITOR IRISH TIMES McHUGH, J.N. 44-45 FORCE 136 BLACK PROPAGANDA -50 DIR. INFORMATION DEPT. MALAYA 52-53 DEPUTY DIR-GEN. INFO DEPT. MACINTOSH, MAJ. […]

Right Woos Left; Populist Party, LaRouchian and other neo-fascist overtures to Progressives; and why they must be rejected

Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

Chip Berlet This 63-page essay describes a wide range of contacts between what in a British context would be described as right-wing conspiracy theorists and the left. Berlet documents a range of contacts between the far-right Liberty Lobby, followers of LaRouche, Bo Gritz and the Populist Party, the Christic Institute, Radio Free America and a … Read more

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 […]

Truth Twisting: notes on disinformation

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] laid etc etc. Along the way ‘West’ drops a number of tidbits: an intricate explanation, going back to pre-war days, of how Philby was really a triple agent; and a version of the ‘peace plotting’ circa 1940 by the British right which purports to demonstrate that the ‘plot’ was really a Soviet operation – […]

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