Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] ChatGPT. I asked it ‘Who was Chauncey Holt?’ And in about 5 seconds it produced this: Chauncey Marvin Holt was an American criminal and self-proclaimed CIA contract agent who claimed to have been involved in several highprofile events in U.S. history, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Holt made these claims in […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] allowing the prosecution to adduce certain evidence and, in particular, the evidence of an individual claimed by the defendants to have played the part of an ‘ agent provocateur.’ In addition the defendants proposed to seek leave to adduce fresh evidence to refute the proposition that the capacitors had been specially designed for use […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
[PDF file]: […] an area known as the Black Section, though, apparently, Angleton took little interest in it. According to Jefferson Morley, however, ’Chaos’ had 40 employees and ‘utilized’ 130 agent sources – Jefferson Morley, The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton (New York: St Martin’s Press, 2017) pp. 218-9. Further, Morley contradicts […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] Koestler and Orwell? An MI5 officer assessed Koestler as ‘one third genius, one third blackguard and one third lunatic’, which seems pretty fair. His trajectory from Comintern agent to Cold Warrior is usefully documented, right up until the time that he became too hawkish for his new employers. Most controversial, of course, is George […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)