Spy Master: The Betrayal of MI5

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] conclusion possible from all of this is that Hollis was personally responsible for the Profumo debacle from start to finish. If Hollis was acting as a GRU agent, he couldn’t have acted with greater effectiveness.’ (p. 226) The facts are somewhat different. As early as mid-1961 Ward was being run by the Security Service […]

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Hitler’s Traitor: Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] quotations – to show that the big bogey figure of 1939/45 was Winston Churchill….duping Roosevelt….duping Stalin…….pointlessly intransigent toward Hitler etc. Kilzer’s theory that Bormann was a Communist agent has actually been around since the early 1950s. (2) No evidence has ever been produced to substantiate this view. His book is basically a study of […]

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Lockerbie, the octopus and the Maltese double cross

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] is the explanation for this unbelievable piece of political camouflage? The only credible answer to date is supplied by Lester Coleman, who claims to have been an agent of the CIA and the lesser known Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) for eight years. In his Trail of the Octopus: From Beirut to Lockerbie — Inside […]

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The 1953 Coup in Iran: an Iranian insider’s view

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] in the machinery of the Iranian government.’ In my view the main role in that coup was played by the British. Lieutenant-General Fazlolah Zahedi was a British agent. Major General Hassan Akhavi was the brain behind the Arfaa’s group . The Rashidian brothers were all British agents. The British managed to obtain American support […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] Extreme Prejudice (London: Robinson, 2005) there are two pages about the late Lord Mountbatten, recycling the claims of some on the right that he was a Soviet agent (without any evidence) and there is this: ‘Many within British intelligence circles knew him as a visitor to Kincora, a boy’s home used by the paedophile […]

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Silent Coup: the Removal of Richard Nixon

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Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] from Colody and Gettlin only in their candidate for ‘Deep Throat’. Instead of Haig, Newman suggested the late Bob Kunkle (my phonetic spelling) who had been Special Agent in Washington in charge of the FBI’s investigation of Watergate. Kunkle — not named in Colodny and Gettlin, or in Hougan — is a plausible candidate […]

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The Enemy Within; the IRA’s War Against the British

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

Martin Dillon, Doubleday, London, 1994. This one, the third book called ‘the enemy within’ of last year, slipped by me at the time: I didn’t notice a single review. Most of it describes the IRA’s various campaigns against the British, not something I am interested in. However there is one rivetting chapter called, ‘The Intelligence … Read more

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…MI5 goes on forever

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] March 1981, there was this snippet: ‘Why all the fuss about the Panorama programme on British Intelligence? Eventually there was just one cut — Gordon Winter, BOSS agent, former freelance journalist, in a pre-title sequence: “British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team […]

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French vendetta: from Rainbow Warrior to the Iranian hostages deal

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] No I’, Georges Abdallah, and who served as a communications channel between the imprisoned FARL leader and his lieutenants, revealed that he had been a salaried DGSE agent since 1984 and had been regularly informing the DGSE of FARL’s exchanges. As if this were not all, Mazurier revealed that in the secret service war […]

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CIA and Drug-Trafficking by Contra Supporters

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] 1988, after Congressional support for the Contras was terminated altogether.(15) By this time Matta Ballesteros was sought by the DEA for the murder in Mexico of DEA agent Enrique Camarena. Two of his associates and co-defendants in that murder case, Rafael Caro Quintero and Miguel Felix Gallardo of the then dominant Mexican Guadalajara cartel, […]

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