The state in politics: Wallace, Holroyd and Lobster

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] Czech intelligence officer Husack to the MI5 officer attached to his Ministry did not prevent MI5 later using those contacts to try and portray Stonehouse as an agent of the Soviet bloc. Charles Laughlin MP reported contacts from another Czech official but MI5 did not tell him that the official was an intelligence officer […]

Notes from the Borderland, no. 4

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] is certain. I do not see what is accomplished by suggesting, as he does here, that Martin Bright of The Observer might (or might not) be an agent of the state. Except to irritate Bright – and maybe send him looking for a libel lawyer – if he ever hears of it. Notes from […]

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 […]

Journals

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] – with fascinating material on the fuzzy alleged 1963 assassination attempt on JFK planned for Chicago, and the role in exposing it of the black Secret Service agent, Abraham Bolden. Every time I come across Bolden I am reminded what a great story this is. First black Secret Service agent; after the assassination, seeking […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 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 […]

Who shot JFK

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] in the 1950s the Americans (and the British) knew very little about the Soviet Union and had almost no agents on the ground. How to get an agent into the Soviet Union must have been high on many agenda in the US intelligence community; defection was one obvious way of doing it; and sending […]

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