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. […]

How many divisions does the Pope have?

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] outbreak of another world war. This was predicted in March 1948 by Gehlen, who also announced at this point the diabolical role of Borman, as a Soviet agent, in masterminding these developments. International events failed to follow this timetable. To be sure the February 1948 communist seizure of power in Czechoslovakia pointed in the […]

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 […]

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 – […]

Kennedy assassination miscellany: Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 7 (1985)

[…] Inside BOSS, South Africa’s Secret Police Gordon Winter (Penguin, London 1981) “BOSS assigned me to monitor the activities of Richard Gibson (exposed in 1969 as a CIA agent), who was a talented journalist then representing Negro Press International and ‘Tuesday’ magazine. I discovered that Mr Gibson, born in California in 1931, was an amazing […]

The View from the Bridge. British American Project. Teddy Taylor MP. New Labour

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[…] the people who had attended its early meetings, among whom was….. David Moller. Now join up the dots. Hanky-panky in the British UFO world The former Searchlight agent provocateur, Tim Hepple, is now cruising the British UFO world under the guise of ‘Tim Matthews’ of the ‘Lancashire UFO Society’. A major attempt to spread […]

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

A conversation with Peter Dale Scott

Lobster Issue 7 (1985)

[…] of its arms were given to Alpha 66, which was the biggest group in it, a few days before the assassination. Apropos of Oswald being a penetration agent and an informant, there was this odd Sheriff who made a report that he obviously wasn’t meant to that Oswald had been hanging around this 3128 […]

Way out West: a conspiracy theory

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] ‘Proven Connection’. West’s view of Hollis as a Soviet mole is partly based on the possible connections with Claud Cockburn who he sees as being a ‘Comintern Agent’. The two certainly knew each other in their university days. It is the view of the anti-Hollis faction that during his interrogation in 1969, as part […]

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 […]

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