Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Almost everyone who knew Whitson well believed he was working for some branch of the CIA, operating in various parts of the world as an anti-communist penetration agent and fixer. O’Neill writes, ‘Once he’d consumed me, I found myself fixating on possibilities that I would’ve dismissed as insane only months before.’ CHAOS and COINTELPRO […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] admitted at the beginning of the inquiry – but impressive nonetheless. The list reminded me of a number of things. There was the comment by former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter that, ‘British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team our man is the […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] – 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 program in 1981 that was the first BBC TV documentary about the British security and intelligence services, […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] (see note 18) p. 608. 29 Robert Moss, Chile’s Marxist Experiment (Newton Abbot, Devon: David and Charles, 1973). 30 See McEvoy, (see note 18). Brian Crozier, Free Agent. The Unseen War 1941-1991 (London: Harper Collins, 1993), p. 115. 31 See Jennifer M. Piscopo and Peter M. Siavelis, ‘Chile’s Constitutional Moment’, Current History Vol. 120, […]

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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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