The Citizen Smith case or the spy who came in from Oporto

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] Paris of Victor Oschenko, who was said to be his Soviet controller. Igor Prelin, who was the spokesman for Vladimir Kryuchkov, the KGB leader behind the failed coup of August 1991, told me that he knew nothing about that British/Russian spy. I was born and raised in Oporto. Nowadays I work in Lisbon at […]

Hess, ‘Hess’ and the ‘peace Party’ (Book review)

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] .'(14) (How would he know what is in MI6 files in the MOD?) A little further on he mentions, without explanation or sourcing, ‘the ill-conceived Royalist/Schellenberg/I.G. Farben coup d’etat in which Himmler would take over and permanently restore the monarchy. A representative of Himmler’s Gestapo would then meet with Halifax in London to confirm […]

The View From The Bridge

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] in the States that Britain was having ‘difficult times’, but he was ‘not prepared for the talk on the BOAC flight about the possibility of a military coup; vigilantes were said to be drilling on the South Downs.’ Special Forces Club. David Leigh, in his The Wilson Plot, first raised the activities of the […]

Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] the material – read but no note-taking – which got me interested in this. The term ‘surfacing’ is used in the CIA documents recently released about the coup in Chile. See Scott Newton’s ‘Historical Notes’ in this issue. Good initially thought the documents were real, eventually changed his mind and is quoted in Jim […]

Death of the Strong Man

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] supply operation. But accompanying the President on the flight were American ambassador Arnold L. Raphael (senior political officer at the Islamabad embassy at the time of Zia’s coup in 1977), US military liaison officer General Herbert Wassom, and most of the inner circle of Army officers who formed the effective government under Zia. Lt. […]

‘Conspiracy Theories’ and Clandestine Politics

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

See note(1) Very few notions generate as much intellectual resistance, hostility, and derision within academic circles as a belief in the historical importance or efficacy of political conspiracies. Even when this belief is expressed in a very cautious manner, limited to specific and restricted contexts, supported by reliable evidence, and hedged about with all sort … Read more

The influence of intelligence services on the British left

Lobster Issue

[…] in 1974, with private armies forming in the Home Counties, the British Army doing maneouvres at Heathrow and The Times discussing the conditions for a British military coup even then, when, had you believed the Daily Telegraph, the state itself was under threat from militant unions run by the Communist Party even then MI5 […]

Deep Black: the secrets of space espionage (Book Review) & Journals

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] M5S 1Al Covert Action Information Bulletin No.29 ($7, including airmail from PO Box 50272, Washington D.C. 20004) is largely devoted to recent events in the Pacific, the coup in Fiji being the chief focus. However, the single most interesting piece is an essay by Fred Landis showing the links between the CIA and the […]

Searchlight yet again

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] opposition to Sadam’s regime being replaced with praise of the ‘great revolutionary’ and his ‘non-capitalist’ country. (5) The NCP also announced its support for the attempted anti-Gorbachev coup of August 1991. At the time of writing the NCP appears to have thrown its lot in with China and North Korea. General Secretary Eric Trevett […]

Terror Within

Book cover
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] or the violence, such that it is, is specifically targeted against political and economic opponents. For example planning to blow up the cabinet as apart of a coup would be seen as political violence but not terrorism. The second main problem lies in the choice of the term ‘British Republic’. Firstly, because many of […]

Accessibility Toolbar