A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] National Executive Committee (NEC), offered him a bribe. Sniffing the political wind in Scotland three years later, Sillars recalls how when he told ‘virulently anti-Communist’ Labour National agent Sara Barker that we could lose to the SNP ‘she was incredulous’. Even before he was elected MP for South Ayrshire in 1970 he had formed […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] who had contact with the CPGB,42 people like Mrs Thatcher believed that Arthur Scargill, though not a CPGB member, was part of ‘the enemy within’ – an agent of the Soviets. This idiocy climaxed with the murder of police sergeant John Speed in Leeds in a botched psy-op intended to blame Jefferson Morley takes […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] so, and had travelled extensively to and from the Soviet Union, on private business, since 1951. Conspiracy theories abounded on this point – was Wilson a Soviet agent? Macmillan was simultaneously trying to persuade an irritated, reluctant and puzzled US that the UK should borrow/share the Polaris nuclear missile system (why didn’t the British […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] membership secretary of most left/peace groups in a few months simply because nobody wants to do those chores. The late Harry Newton, for example, an MI5-Special Branch agent, became the treasurer of the Institute of Workers Control.3 Newton is also said to have ‘penetrated’ CND headquarters. On the one occasion I visited the headquarters […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Harold Smith RIP Harold Smith has died. In Lobster 24 I summarised Smith’s account of witnessing the outgoing British state rigging the pre-independence elections in Nigeria which, he argued, led to the Biafran war and millions of dead. Smith’s story can be found by Googling ‘Harold Smith + […]

Dallas again

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] a commonplace among JFK researchers that we would never find out whodunnit until somebody confessed. We have had confessions from two former CIA employees – one contract agent, Holt, and a senior officer, Hunt – and both were greeted by the Kennedy researchers with near universal disbelief. 28 On Estes see for example or […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] Kingston upon Hull. Ismail Hassan Sowan, a 29 year-old Palestinian engineer was arrested and confessed to Scotland Yard detectives that he had been working as a double- agent for the Mossad on a sting operation directed against the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Britain. Sowan told the British that the Mossad had used him to […]

White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate Story by Phil Stanford

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] 1 2 Hougan has some interesting material on Watergate at . This tale, taken with the account by Robert Merrit of his time as a gay informant/ agent provocateur in Washington in this period,3 convey a vivid picture of political sleaze in America’s capital, as well as being an exemplar of Peter Dale Scott’s […]

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