UK Eyes Alpha: the Inside Story of British Intelligence

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] she’d read Frederick Forsyth’s execrable The Fourth Protocol twice. Forsyth’s novel, you may recall, describes a Kinnock-led Labour Party getting into office only to suffer an internal coup from the left, controlled by the KGB. The reality, however, was that from KGB defectors Gordievsky and Kuzichkin – notably the latter, who disappeared without trace […]

SAS

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] possible trouble spots throughout the world, looking at geography, sensitive areas and military installations (Times 29th December 1983) Mostly Commonwealth countries, this follows anxiety felt after the coup attempt in the Seychelles. In 1981 the SAS were active in support of the government of Sir Dawda Janara, President of Gambia, after an attempted coup. […]

Miscellaneous: Gemstone. Workers’ Revolutionary Party, MI5 and Libya

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] by the transnational union organisation, Public Services International (PSI). William Blum’s The CIA: a forgotten history (Zed Press, London, 1986) includes a chapter on the joint CIA/MI5 coup run in the sixties against Chedi Jagan, the Prime Minister of British Guyana. In that coup the vehicle used by the Anglo-American spooks was Public Services […]

Getting it right: the security agencies in modern society

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

See note (1) Robin Ramsay The topic was suggested to me by Kevin O’Brien [of ICSA]. It wasn’t clear to me if it was simply that I was being played out a very long piece of rope with which to hang myself. At any rate, given such a wide title – and a title to … Read more

The once and future king?

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] some of their ultimately irrational views may have seemed.(12) Knight and Livingstone were operating during a time when the Allende government had been overthrown in a CIA-backed coup and the Salazar regime in Portugal had collapsed overnight in 1974, to give but two examples of dramatic change during those years. Something like this happening […]

Spooks

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] “I have absolutely no doubt that someone or something got to them before we did“‘ (emphasis added). The amazing Mr Logan From: Gordon Logan Subject: The Moscow Coup and MI6’s Murders ‘I am sending the text of a letter that I sent to the British Home Office a few months ago. I have been […]

The fiction of the state: The Paris Review and the invisible world of American letters

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] did one every really leave it? I had been active in the anti-war movement. In the days of Richard Nixon, that could spell trouble. There was the coup in Chile and the murder of Allende. After Nixon’s fall, the national security state perpetuated itself under Henry Kissinger, who stayed on under Gerald Ford as […]

Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Research

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] American right-wingers). Both the British and smaller U.S. money markets had poured a lot of money into investments in Russia in the 30 years before the Bolshevik coup. It would hardly be a surprise to find all the major money-lenders of Europe, a few of whom were Jews, in there, as well. When the […]

The death of Italy’s military intelligence chief in Iraq and some examples of persuasion

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] to their owners – some, particularly ‘celebrities’, are acquiring status through their religious choices. This can endorse the religion they favour. (It would have been a considerable coup – and much more besides – if Princess Diana had abandoned the Anglican Church for the Roman one, as, shortly before her death, it was rumoured.) […]

Economic Fundamentalism: a Laboratory Experiment

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Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] at gun-point, imposed by the US-dominated IMF on developing countries with the ever-present threat of political action – from economic sanctions, through CIA subversion up to full-blown coup – in the background. They have to be imposed by force because they are simply schemes whereby the imperialist powers (until recently usually America) extract wealth […]

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