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[…] However the only CIA officer who spoke of the Agency’s role, E. Howard Hunt, did not include Lansdale in his version of the conspiracy;5 and CIA contract agent Chauncey Holt, one of the three ‘tramps’, does not mention Lansdale in his various accounts. many years at the Financial Times and Telegraph – knew what […]

Kincora: abuse and the British state

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is it credible that Ian Cameron, a senior MI5 officer, did not tell his superiors in London about Brian Gemmell’s report and that he was running an agent inside ‘Tara’? The transcript of a call made to the RUC’s Confidential Telephone on 23 May 1973 shows that senior police officers, including the Head of […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[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 View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[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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