Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] for profit. In this hothouse atmosphere paranoia develops and conspiracies are everywhere, often inspired by supposed colleagues. Just as James Angleton was accused of being a KGB agent because of his overly close relationship to Golitsyn, so Lundy was smeared because of his working relationship with Garner. It is not a game for innocents […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] some weeks in 1988 to get me to invite him up to live in Hull with a mixture of promises of information on his career as an agent for MI5 and stories about his ill-health and the failing NHS in London. He was quite a good actor — he had, indeed, been an actor […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] into another book. They rehearse the fragments known about an apparent assassination attempt in Chicago on 2 November (and the fate of the first black Secret Service agent, Abraham Bolden, who was framed on a counterfeiting charge after trying to tell the Warren Commission about the Chicago attempt). But how serious was the Chicago […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] assassination by proxy. Nelson, a member of the UDA, presented himself to the British intelligence apparatus at the end of 1985. He was put to work as agent ‘ten thirty three’ by the covert Force Research Unit (FRU) and, over a period of time, became the means whereby the loyalist paramilitaries were brought to […]
Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££
[…] LAPD had set up the Public Disorder and Intelligence Division and the Criminal Conspiracy Section (PDID and CCS) in the 1960s. In 1971 one of the CCS agent provocateurs, Louis Tackwood (a black), began exposing their activities. Tackwood later wrote a book, a fairly extraordinary book called The Glasshouse Tapes (Avon NY 1973) describing […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] of this book there are many raves; but continue on down through the second page and you come to a very destructive review by a former FBI agent, Delbert Hahn, who was interviewed by Hopsicker. Before buying this read that. Notes If the Zelig reference escapes you try On getaway styles, I prefer the […]
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 […]
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
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[PDF file]: […] and flown to his home country, where he was almost certainly murdered by order of his political enemy, the dictator Trujillo. In this case, a former FBI agent, John Joseph Frank (who had worked for the CIA as well as a Trujillo lobbyist) pleaded nolo contendere for his role in chartering the kidnap plane; […]