War and peace plots

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] the document were arguing that the Foreign Office should back the Canaris-German resistance-Vatican proposal. This report had to cross the desk of Kim Philby – a Soviet agent – before it could be officially circulated to Ministers. Philby duly rejected the document, thus blocking any formal discussion of a peace deal that would be […]

The Big Breach

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

Responsibilities, old boy The Big Breach Richard Tomlinson Cutting Edge, Edinburgh, 2000, £9.99   I found it hard to ‘see’ this because so much of its contents have been published in the media. There have been some changes – names altered – since the newspaper versions; and I am told that the original hardback version … Read more

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 […]

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. […]

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 – […]

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 […]

The International Centre of Free Trade Unionists in Exile

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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