Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[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 63 (Summer 2012)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] given the chance, the FO shut it down. Curiously enough, no sign of said ‘complex operation’ has ever been made visible, not even in Crozier’s memoir Free Agent. Was Libya responsible for the killing of PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984? In one of Tony Gosling’s many e-mails was a timely reminder of the 1996 […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[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 […]