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[…] about political corruption. I’d research all this material and think, “What?! Another Russian spy donating to the Tories?” or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He made Lebedev Junior a Lord? Cameron lobbies for Chinese interests? Blair lobbies for everyone? […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

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[…] sorts of disgruntled intelligence operatives, former soldiers and arms dealers who were preparing for a coup against what they considered a communist government led by a communist agent – the Prime Minister himself.’ (p. 47) But to my knowledge the personnel of GB75 were never revealed and Bloom offers no source on this. And […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] 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. Newton is also said to have ‘penetrated’ CND headquarters.3 On the one occasion I visited the headquarters […]

Money laundering in British football

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] investment in Blackpool Football Club in a £34 million award in damages and costs. Mr Justice Marcus Smith decided that the majority owner of Blackpool FC, estate agent Owen Oyston, and his son Karl, the chairman of the football club, had ‘abused their majority powers’ to the detriment of both Valeri Belokon.5 The Belokon […]

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[…] about political corruption. I’d research all this material and think, “What?! Another Russian spy donating to the Tories?” or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He made Lebedev Junior a Lord? Cameron lobbies for Chinese interests? Blair lobbies for everyone? […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] – organisations which attacked the CPGB. The only evidence – if you can call it that – on this we have is the comment by former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter. Interviewed by Tom Mangold, for the Panorama programme in 1981 that was the first BBC TV documentary about the British security and intelligence services, […]

Operation Mindfuck: QAnon and the cult of Donald Trump, by Robert Guffey

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] day that I learned that the Office of Naval Intelligence had participated in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and that it was the Secret Service agent driving the limo that had shot Kennedy in the head, I went AWOL with no intention of ever returning. My good friend Bob Swan is the […]

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