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 […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] Blair and Gordon Brown, have been Thatcherite. Cusack and McDonald, The UVF, (Dublin: Poolbeg, 2000) White, B., John Hume: Statesman of the Troubles (Belfast: Blackstaff, 1984) Ulster, October, 1986 The title of the article was ‘John Hume: CIA agent’. In Lobster 33. David Trimble savaged the Jonathan Powell memoir in a review in The Guardian
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 […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)
[…] its creation, it always seemed likely that Bilderberg was a British enterprise; and Wilford concludes this, citing a C. D. Jackson comment that Retinger was a British agent, an opinion ‘pretty well shared by some other people who are in a position to know better than I ’ – reference, presumably, to the CIA […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
Crime fighting? There must many candidates for the title ‘The most damaging thing I have read about this government’. My current candidate is a piece by Simon Jenkins, ‘A Keep Police off the Streets Strategy Unit’ (The Times 2 February 2002). After reminding the reader that in the UK the police are a local service, … Read more
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
Some of the spook recruitment pitches in the media of the last two years have gone out of their way to impress upon prospective candidates the family-friendly credentials of the major state spook employers.(1) But such measures, no matter how sincere and/or necessary, are for the most part aimed at a parent’s convenience – and … Read more