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 […]

‘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 view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] in the cells of that group that we could prevent actions because of the credibility of our source.’ This is reminiscent of the comment by former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter that, ‘British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team our man is the […]

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 […]

Cyberspace Wars: Microprocessing vs. Big Brother

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] exchange, the ADL apparently enjoys privileged access to police and FBI files. This is what happened in San Francisco, where a police intelligence officer (and former CIA agent in El Salvador) named Tom Gerard has been indicted for passing confidential police intelligence files to the local ADL office. Another principal in this case is […]

Israel’s Edwin Wilson

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] high technology found its way to Israel through Harari’s network. Harari’s main contact in the US is a figure often mentioned in the Contra investigations, former CIA agent Felix Rodriguez, who ran the secret Contra resupply effort from Ilopango airbase in El Salvador. Rodriguez’s close colleague on the Contra operation, the CIA’s Donald Gregg, […]

Iraq

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] French intelligence, as some kind of wheeze to plant dodgy documents on the Anglo-American alliance and then expose them as fraudulent. See, for example, Bruce Johnston, ‘ Agent behind fake uranium documents worked for France’, The Sunday Telegraph 19 September 2004. 7. Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction, HC 898, July 2004, […]

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 […]

Peter’s friends?

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] August did not run the story but two other papers that day were dropping big hints. The Sunday Telegraph reported that ‘…a friend of the former MI5 agent told the Sunday Telegraph that there was “concrete evidence” that two senior ministers had worked for the security service…..the same source said that Mr Shayler’s girlfriend, […]

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