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[…] about political corruption. I’d research all this material and think, “What?! Another Russian spy donating to the Tories?” or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He made Lebedev Junior a Lord? Cameron lobbies for Chinese interests? Blair lobbies for everyone? […]

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 […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[PDF file]: […] junior minister at Min Tech, John Stonehouse duly obeyed MI5 instructions and reported his contacts with Czech diplomats. MI5 still tried to smear him as a Czech agent. 26 58. This period is discussed in detail in Dorril and Ramsay part 4. 59. Broad and Geiger (eds.) p. 103 60. Ibid. 61. Verney letter […]

Gareth Llewellyn, CSIS and the Canadian stasi

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] a publisher. Four chapters and an introduction tentatively entitled Life Under CSIS Rule are included, as well as a book synopsis and letter to a prospective literary agent. A series of magazine articles are also feasible, as is internet publication. The Gangstalker Directory contains ‘About Gangstalkers’ to explain the role of ‘gangstalkers’ – simply, […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] him back in the 1970s, after they had investigated secret SAS activities in Yemen, that Holden ‘was secretly a Marxist and that he was working as an agent for the KGB.’ 17 The authors nowhere mention that serious reporting is often a matter of trading information. You often have to give to take. It […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] work with the Pinay Circle (Cercle Pinay) in the 1970s and 80s.9 But the Telegraph fudged Crozier’s links with the CIA, even though in his memoir Free Agent, Crozier is open 7 and 8 On which see David Teacher’s enormous study, downloadable at . 9 5 The willingness to fake US intelligence for bureaucratic […]

MANUFACTURING TERRORISM: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society by T. J. Coles

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: Into the quagmire MANUFACTURING TERRORISM When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society T. J. Coles Sussex (UK): Clairview Books, 2018, p/b, £14.99 Robin Ramsay One of the most influential books published in the English-speaking world since the Millennium was James Bamford’s 2001 Body of Secrets about the NSA. Although it attracted […]

The Spy Who Would be Tzar: The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground by Kevin Coogan

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] was abandoned by the CIA, Goleniewski made an increasingly weird set of claims, starting with that old favourite on the far-right: that Henry Kissinger was a Soviet agent. He went on to claim that the American journalist/writer Guy Richards was really Reinhard Heydrich (who is otherwise universally believed to be have been killed during […]

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