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Lobster Issue

[…] As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Dallas again In September 2023 a memoir by former US Secret Service agent Paul Landis was published in which he said he found the Kennedy assassination’s so-called ‘magic bullet’ on the top of the back seat of the presidential […]

South of the border

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 […]

Romeo Spy by John Alexander Symonds

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] has been largely blanked by the major media, even though they are fascinated by spies and Symonds is the only British citizen to act as a KGB agent and return to tell the tale. Symonds was a detective in London in the late 1960s and early 1970s, at the time when the Metropolitan Police […]

Did the Mossad steal John le Carré’s cunning plan?

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] his 1983 novel The Little Drummer Girl,1 John le Carré 2 thanked the Israeli ‘intelligence fraternity’ for their ‘advice and co-operation’. The author (whose 25th spy thriller, Agent Running in the Field,3 was published by Penguin in October) offered ‘sincere thanks’ to General Shlomo Gazit 4 former head of Aman, Israeli military intelligence. Le […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] Russianfriendly accounts and Trumpkins has been going on for some time.” If that was true, it meant that anyone expressing support for Donald Trump might be an agent of the Russian government, whether or not the person intended to play that role. It meant that the people they called “Trumpkins,” who made up half […]

Watergate Exposed How the President of the United States and the Watergate Burglars Were Set Up as told to Douglas Caddy, original attorney for the Watergate Seven by Robert Merrit

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: Watergate Exposed How the President of the United States and the Watergate Burglars Were Set Up as told to Douglas Caddy, original attorney for the Watergate Seven Robert Merrit Walterville (OR): TrineDay, 2011, 240 pages, index; p/b, (US) $19.95 www.TrineDay.net This is a very interesting bad book with a misleading title. It’s bad because little […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] in Tara if SIS had an operational interest in its leader, William McGrath. And did SIS do ‘infiltration’? And what would ‘infiltration’ of Kincora mean? Planting an agent in the home? The two men said to have visited the source for the Express story and told him of paedophile parties in the south of […]

lob86View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Russianfriendly accounts and Trumpkins has been going on for some time.” If that was true, it meant that anyone expressing support for Donald Trump might be an agent of the Russian government, whether or not the person intended to play that role. It meant that the people they called “Trumpkins,” who made up half […]

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