Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] be depressed that senior police personnel could be so far off the pace? How should we react to the reported recent death of Force Research Unit (FRU) agent Brian Nelson in the midst of the reaction to the publication of the summary of the Stevens Report? (1) Was this tidying-up by a murderous state? […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)
[…] Hollywood movies, Turkey has put its own spin on espionage and made its most expensive movie ever – Valley of the Wolves – which follows an intelligence agent as he travels to Iraq to avenge the death of a Turkish soldier. The Times 17 February 2006. PRs always look to the major set pieces […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)
[…] the American Federation of Labor (AFL) representative in Europe for many years following the Second World War, and was, in the words of Philip Agee, ‘principal CIA agent for control of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions’.(23) They met the leaders of Force Ouvrière, again in February, to discuss mutual problems, including the […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
Francis Beckett and David Hencke London: Constable, 2009, h/b, £18.99 This is quite interesting and impressive; but with a strange spin. There is a lot of (to me) new detail on the impact of the event on the Labour Party and trade unions, on money given to the NUM from other unions and on attempts … Read more
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 […]