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 […]

Did the CIA sink a ship-load of Leyland buses in the Thames?

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

Veterans of a notorious Miami-based CIA dirty tricks team have boasted that they were helped by British Intelligence officers to sink an East German ship loaded with British-built Leyland buses. Three years after the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the MV Magdeburg was hit by a Japanese ship in the River Thames. When … Read more

Geheim – CIA in England

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

This is from No 3 volume 7, 1988 of Geheim, the German member of the international brotherhood of parapolitics mags (of which Lobster is apparently the smallest, poorest and least frequent). The good news for those of us too lazy to learn anything but English is that Geheim is going to produce an English- language … Read more

Magazines, journals etc.

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] evidence the contained conecrning war ‘preplanning’. ‘Gladio’ and NATO’s Terrorist Network. Investigating the allegations of NATO involvement in terrorism. Gulf War Launches ‘New World’ Order’. Ex-CIA chief agent Phillip Agee’s comprehensive analysis of American military operations. Economic League: Political Surveillance. Including an unpublished essay by the League on the State of the Left, Anarchists […]

The Andropov Deception

Lobster Issue 10 (1986)

[…] Union – source-of-all-terrorism line, and general apologist for US (and UK) support for some of the most obnoxious regimes in the “free world”? Crozier’s “hero”, a NATO agent called Peter Lock (is Crozier telling us NATO has its own Intelligence service?) is. an emotionless psychopath for whom “killing caused a sexual swelling”. (p. 6) […]

Spinning the European Union: pro-European propaganda campaigns in the British media

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

See note (1) This article explores the three pro-European Union propaganda campaigns mounted to date: in 1962-63 to secure public support following Britain’s first application to join the EU; in 1970-71 to prepare the public for accession; and in 1974-75 to ensure continued EU membership in the 1975 Referendum. For simplicity, the term European Union … Read more

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, […]

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 […]

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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