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

The corporate ex-spook business

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

In its Supplement ‘Corporate Security’, the Financial Times (11 April 2002) provided private security companies with a five page ‘advertorial’. If they are thought of as a service industry, the puff may have done the companies some favours. If they are thought of as consultancies, however, it merely reinforced the emerging superiority of specialist boutiques, … 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 […]

Briefly: Ideas. Blitz to Blair. Covert Network. etc

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] easily persuaded to surrender their independence and their critical judgement by the red scare of the early Cold War. I SPY: The Secret Life of a British Agent Geoffrey Elliott St Ermin’s Press/Little, Brown, London, 1998, £18.99 The agent in question was Elliott’s father, Kavan, about whom Elliott knew very little until he began […]

Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] that of recipient and disseminator of information and disinformation and – perhaps – a source for ‘Falcon’ on the civilian UFO groups.(16) ‘Falcon’ was the AFOSI Special Agent Doty who had interviewed Bennewitz; and Doty, an Air Force investigator, a figure – albeit not a very significant one – from the Federal government, proceeded […]

The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] to the first. Take this paragraph on a page I opened at random. ‘And what of the George Bush address found in the address book of CIA agent George de Morenschildt, the control agent for Lee Harvey Oswald? DeMorenschildt had been a spy for the OSS in German intelligence, and some have speculated that […]

Searchlight again

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] know what Larry O’Hara is. Not just an errand boy for the nazis, now he has made it into the big time as an informant for an agent for the SIS.(9) I suppose it is ironic that Robin Ramsey, who runs one of the two Lobster magazines now doing the rounds and got his […]

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 […]

Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Dissent

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] NED was funding the opposition in Venezuela when MacShane denounced Hugh Chavez during the failed coup attempt. (8) The Labour Friends of Israel Dunwoody’s researcher and election agent for some time was David Mencer, a former member of the Israel armed forces, and now secretary of Labour Friends of Israel (LFI). Stephen Byers, one […]

The Perfect English Spy

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] tried to clamp down on information about the spooks, there was a massive explosion of leaking by the services themselves. White is portrayed as a kind of agent for the overt Whitehall, put in charge of both services to re-orient them, make them face the realities of the post-war world – and be more […]

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