Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
[PDF file]: […] book but I have barely skimmed the Angels book. The CIA book reworks in extraordinary detail a number of the incidents in Oswald’s career as a CIA agent? asset? – which isn’t clear. The Angels book is about Cuba and the beginnings of the CIA’s attempts to overthrow Fidel Castro. It has no bearing […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] known as Martin Ingram. See, for starters, . The reliability of Hurst/Ingram’s stories in unclear to me. Republican sources have tried to discredit Ingram, mainly because of what he has said about the British agent Steaknife. On which see, for example, . Evidently the Irish government thought him worth talking to. 11 See 12 farce.
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] book The Man from Moscow, Wynne is more candid almost right from the start. On the sixth page of the first chapter he admits: ‘I was an agent and my training had been thorough and explicit.’22 Another instance of Christopher Andrew being somewhat economical with the actualité comes when he discusses MI5’s interrogation of […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] the possibility that Brown’s family was set up for assassination. Mr Blake Knox also ignores this critique. The killing of solicitor Pat Finucane by a loyalist British agent is similarly bypassed. Brown described Special Branch’s subversion of his attempt to catch and convict Finucane’s killer. Mr Blake Knox’s prejudice in favour of a view […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] thought to have been involved in a number of OSS operations in Nazi-occupied Europe. Sometime after the war he hooked up with George Hunter White, a buccaneering agent of the Federal Narcotics Bureau, who would provide plenty of work for him. (White had free access to LSD in the early 1950s and was dosing […]