Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
[…] for Menzies and possibly for underground dealings with Germans willing to discuss peace such as Admiral Canaris, the Abwehr chief, Hermann Goering (whose chauffeur was a Swedish agent), the SS intelligence boss Walter Schellenberg or, at the end of the war, Heinrich Himmler. (De Courcy told me that he had met Himmler and thought […]
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, […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)
Veterans of a notorious Miami-based CIA dirty tricks team have boasted that they were helped by British Intelligence officers to sink an East German ship loaded with British-built Leyland buses. Three years after the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the MV Magdeburg was hit by a Japanese ship in the River Thames. When … Read more
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
See note (1) This article explores the three pro-European Union propaganda campaigns mounted to date: in 1962-63 to secure public support following Britain’s first application to join the EU; in 1970-71 to prepare the public for accession; and in 1974-75 to ensure continued EU membership in the 1975 Referendum. For simplicity, the term European Union … Read more
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister. It is not clear that he did so. However, a little while later, in an unrelated episode, Wolkoff was asked by an agent MI5 had planted in the Right Club if she would send a message (the text of which had been drafted by MI5) to Germany by giving […]
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
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
[…] those operations. The CIA scientist monitoring the test, a physiologist from the research and development side of the agency believed he had a potential class ‘A’ espionage agent who could roam psychically anywhere in the world, ferreting out secrets undetected.(31) The CIA’s contract study on the Soviet efforts, ‘Novel Bio-physical Information Transfer Mechanism’ (NBIT) […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] – hence the view in the book that Parsons had a role (of some kind ) in the US space programme. Reuss was also a German secret agent. The OTO were regarded as an espionage ring in many parts of Europe. Crowley and his group were expelled from France in 1929 as a result […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] number is 206426. It has never made any grants to the left that I can trace. Dulverton rates a couple of mentions in Brian Crozier’s memoirs Free Agent (HarperCollins, London, 1993). Crozier speaks highly of General Douglas Brown, manager of the trust in the late 1970s, who was able to facilitate contacts with the […]