South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Zakariyah Rahman was sentenced to a minimum term of 30 years for plotting to kill British Prime Minister, Theresa May. Initially, ‘Rahman made contact with an FBI agent posing as an IS official online, who introduced him to an MI5 role-player.’16 The jury took thirteen hours to reach their decision and, after he was […]

The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] of the British secret state, the British military and the CIA believed that the recently resigned Prime Minister Harold Wilson was a KGB asset, if not an agent; and that the KGB influenced – even ran – the Labour Party through the role of the Communist Party of Great Britain in several of Britain’s […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] sent to get hold of sensitive royal correspondence with Hitler and other senior Nazis? In support of this theory, after Blunt had been revealed as a Soviet agent, his MI5 interrogator, Peter Wright, states that was told in 1964 by Michael Adeane, Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II: ‘From time to time . . […]

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 […]

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 […]

A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013). of deep reporting. We learn, for instance, that a CIA staffer in Mexico City served in the OSS (the CIA’s precursor) with an agent Julia McWilliams, best known to millions as the celebrated chef Julia Child’. Deep reporting? Big deal! Dean’s concluding paragraph: ‘There is enough uncovered here to give […]

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