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 […]

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 […]

THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] prevented dark truths from being told’. (p. 53) Kendzior, who sees her job as investigating ‘the conspiracies of the powerful’, has earned her denunciation as a CIA agent, an agent of the Kremlin, a member of Hamas, of the Yakuza, of the IRA and of Al Qaeda. She has even been accused of being […]

View from Bridge copo

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 […]

Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] the right man. The way this is framed in the book paints a picture, to my cynical mind, of Taylor being distinctly naïve: Some years ago my agent, Annabel Merullo of Peters Fraser and Dunlop, said it was time I wrote another book. I said I needed to find a suitable subject first. Astonishingly […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] comprehensive source for information about this remains Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (London: 4th Estate, 1991). See also Brian Crozier, Free Agent. The Unseen War 1941-1991 (London: HarperCollins, 1993), pp. 121-122; Gerald James, In the Public Interest (London: Little Brown, 1995); Newton, The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016 (see […]

Reading between the lies: Edward Jay Epstein and Lee Harvey Oswald’s ‘Historic Diary’

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] he amassed the material that would form the basis for his 1978 Legend:The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, wherein he indicates that Oswald was a KGB agent. Mr Epstein wrote a long piece, ‘Reading Oswald’s Hand’, about his analysis of the Historic Diary manuscript for the magazine Psychology Today in April 1978. It […]

The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] time went by. RFK on the other hand had power, and Hoover viewed him as a ‘sneaky little son of a bitch’. Hoover even assigned a Special Agent to watch the Attorney-General’s television appearances.9 The anti-MLK ‘cabal’ The Autumn 1963 dossier episode had allowed the dossier’s author (key FBI man William Sullivan) to create […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] informed me that this is what the site’s managers wanted. It is thus a long series of striking claims – for example: ‘Giles Raddice was a CIA agent inside the British Labour Movement’ – with no sources. The site managers have also put copy block on the content; so copying it, or part of […]

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