The Pentagon’s Psychic Research

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) […]

Sex and Rockets: the occult world of Jack Parsons

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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 […]

New Labour, New Atlanticism: US and Tory intervention in the unions since the 1970s

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 […]

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 […]

Dr Mary’s Monkey

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] laboratory run by a known Mafia asset to develop a biological weapon. In between the two, she works at a cover-job under the supervision of an ex-FBI agent, who sends her on errands to deliver “envelopes” to the office of the Congressman who chairs the House Committee on Un-American Activities.’ The ‘young cancer researcher’ […]

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

Clippings Digest

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

Phone-tapping Phone-tapping of CND (Observer 9 December 1984; Daily Telegraph 10 December.) Telegraph piece includes claim that people phoning CND office have been connected to Ministry of Defence and local police stations. Police Review (15 February 1985) quotes “a source inside British Telecom” on the question of warrants for taps: ‘When it is a police … Read more

Like books we should have so many witnesses?: Some recent JFK literature

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] so much the story of Nagell as materials for a study of him. The book’s 800-odd pages leave nothing out. A massive work. Nagell, a CIA contract agent, went into an El Paso bank in September 1963, fired a couple of shots into a wall, and got himself intentionally arrested — thus ensuring he […]

Mark Felt, Jason Blair and ‘Misty Beethoven’

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

Mark Felt is ‘Deep Throat’. Bob Woodward says so, and his word is law in this particular arena. No matter that Woodward had a dozen sources, some of whom may have been more important than Throat himself. The point is that ‘Throat’ is anyone Woodward says he is, and he says he is Felt. In … Read more

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