Geheim – CIA in England

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

This is from No 3 volume 7, 1988 of Geheim, the German member of the international brotherhood of parapolitics mags (of which Lobster is apparently the smallest, poorest and least frequent). The good news for those of us too lazy to learn anything but English is that Geheim is going to produce an English- language … Read more

‘Conspiracy Theories’ and Clandestine Politics

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] of covert and clandestine politics which are directly relevant to this study. See, for example, Gary Marx, ‘Thoughts on a Neglected Category of Social Movement Participant: The Agent Provocateur and the Informant’, American Journal of Sociology 80:2 (September 1974), especially pp. 402-3. One of the few dissertations dealing directly with this topic, though not […]

The Andropov Deception

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] Union – source-of-all-terrorism line, and general apologist for US (and UK) support for some of the most obnoxious regimes in the “free world”? Crozier’s “hero”, a NATO agent called Peter Lock (is Crozier telling us NATO has its own Intelligence service?) is. an emotionless psychopath for whom “killing caused a sexual swelling”. (p. 6) […]

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 […]

Magazines, journals etc.

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] evidence the contained conecrning war ‘preplanning’. ‘Gladio’ and NATO’s Terrorist Network. Investigating the allegations of NATO involvement in terrorism. Gulf War Launches ‘New World’ Order’. Ex-CIA chief agent Phillip Agee’s comprehensive analysis of American military operations. Economic League: Political Surveillance. Including an unpublished essay by the League on the State of the Left, Anarchists […]

Eye Spy!

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] We are told Montesinos ‘breached army regulations’ prior to 1977; we are not told he was put on trial by the leftist Velasco regime as a CIA agent. EYE SPY! reports that, ‘ironically, the camera that recorded was one of his own’: there is no speculation as to how the spymaster’s super-secret videotapes reached […]

Justice Delayed

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] Dr Gottlieb. Back in 1952, Glickman, an American citizen, was an artist in Paris. In his suit against Dr Gottlieb, Glickman claims that Gottlieb or some other agent of the United States government placed LSD in his drink at the Cafe Select in Paris in October 1952. According to Glickman, an acquaintance had asked […]

Animal Pharm

Book cover
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

Mark Purdey Edited by Nigel Purdey East Sussex: Clairview Books, 2007 247 pps text, 8 pps of tables, £12.99 p/b Mark Purdy was an organic dairy farmer. This book results from his long battle against conventional wisdom concerning the source of ‘mad cow disease’, the variant CJD, and other neurodegenerative diseases which also affect humans. … Read more

Lundy, and, Scotland Yard’s Cocaine Connection

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] for profit. In this hothouse atmosphere paranoia develops and conspiracies are everywhere, often inspired by supposed colleagues. Just as James Angleton was accused of being a KGB agent because of his overly close relationship to Golitsyn, so Lundy was smeared because of his working relationship with Garner. It is not a game for innocents […]

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