The limits of accountability

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

We know that torture is going on in secret and not so secret prisons. We know thanks to the excellent research done by <www.cageprisoners.com> that elements of the British government, be they MI5, MI6 or diplomats from the FCO, have been involved. Yet we seem unable to stop it. Civic society raises its voices in … Read more

The Conspirators: secrets of an Iran-Contra insider

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] and the rest of the secret state; and, when the whole stupid mess ended up in court, the late Alan Clark MP was unwilling to see MI6 agent and Matrix Churchill executive Paul Henderson wrongly convicted and blew the gaff – the occasion of his famous phrase ‘economical with the actualité’. Was Matrix Churchill […]

Churchill and Secret Service

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

David Stafford, John Murray, London, 1997, £25 Any book dealing with Winston Churchill must situate itself within one of two rival camps. On the one hand, there are the Churchillians, who regard him as one of the great men of the twentieth century, who dominates modern times and deserves personal credit for having saved Britain … Read more

Blood revenge: the aftermath of the assassination of Airey Neave

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

“The anomaly of going to war in your own country was not lost on Harry.” (Harry’s Game, Gerald Seymour, Fontana, London 1975) Airey Neave was killed in March 1979 by a bomb planted beneath his car just outside the Houses of Parliament. The then little known Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) soon claimed responsibility. The … Read more

Christic’s version of Dealey Plaza

Lobster Issue 15 (1988)

[…] to be established two secret military training bases for their “Contra” forces, one south of Miami, Florida, and one in Guatemala. CIA Director Allen Dulles assigned CIA Agent and former Marine Corps officer Carl Jenkins to supervise the training of these “Contra” forces in guerilla warfare tactics in Florida and Guatemala. The objective of […]

Sources: Journals

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

Official openings We don’t have a Freedom of Information Act, and are not likely to get one from any of the British political parties. Imagine a conversation in the office of the new Labour Prime Minister in a year or three: ‘FOI? Too much trouble, too much aggro with Whitehall. As if we need any … Read more

Princess Diana: the Hidden Evidence

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] motives behind the crash, but admitted that some ‘abnormal driving’ had taken place that night), a paramedic supervisor, and a US Special Forces veteran and CIA contract agent. The latter, not surprisingly, requested anonymity and is referred to throughout the book as ‘Stealth’ The meetings with him took place, rather melodramatically, at the Avebury […]

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, […]

Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British anti-semitism 1939/1940

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

[…] all the private material between Roosevelt and Churchill 1939/1940. Originally thought to be a Nazi spy, after 1945 the CIA considered him to have been a Soviet agent all along (not a contradiction during the Nazi-Soviet Pact). Aarons and Loftus (op. cit.) also say, p. 212, that, contemporaneously with this, whilst attached to a […]

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