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 Activity, Grenada

Lobster Issue 3 (1984)

See note (1) James ‘Bo’ Gritz, linked to the US Army Intelligence Support Activity (ISA), was detained with Lance Corp. Edward Trimmer whilst trying to enter Thailand. (Guardian 23rd September 1983) They were apparently on another mission looking for American POWs. In December, for the first time since 1975, American troops were in Laos investigating … Read more

Spooks

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] Petersen, Tiger Men, Macmillan, Australia, 1988). Dick Noone: MI6 commanding the special operations base in Sabah, Borneo, 1970-71, died 1973. (Ibid.). Peter Langan: Used as an MI5 agent against the IRA in 60s (Langan, A Life With Food, Bloomsbury, London, 1990). Mike Jeffrey: Manager of Jimi Hendrix, MI5 counter-intelligence agent 50s. (Victor Sampson, Hendrix, […]

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 Man from the FRU

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? […]

American Friends: the Anti-CND Groups

Lobster Issue 3 (1984)

American Friends: the Anti-CND Groups Steve Dorril In a memo leaked to the Washington Post (9th May 1982) on opposition to President Reagan’s defence policy, Eugene V. Rostow, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, stated “there is participation on an increasing scale in the US of three groups whose potential impact should be … Read more

The JFK Assassination on film, televison and video

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

Introduction Greenwood Press in the USA have just published Anthony Frewin’s’ The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: An Annotated Film, TV and Videography, 1963-1992 (ISBN 0-313-28982-4). The book is divided into 12 chapters covering such subjects as Oswald in New Orleans, Dealey Plaza (some 40 entries, no less), Dallas post-assassination, TV programs and compilations, documentaries, … Read more

Web update

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] upon any sensitive operational techniques of the security and intelligence services, and in particular upon their sources of information, including the identity of any officer, contact or agent.’ After the House of Lords ruling (see below), Liberty is taking the issue of whether the Official Secrets Act 1989 is compatible with the ECHR to […]

The two Indonesias and the two Americas

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] battalion was at the center of massacre and torture operations in the 1960s as in the 1990s. Its chief then, Sarwo Edhie, has been called a CIA agent or contact. It was he who, while giving orders in Indonesia for the elimination of the Indonesian Communist Party, used the American Army word, ‘psywar.’ ‘The […]

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