Cryptoscatology: Conspiracy Theory as Art Form by Robert Guffey

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] or false is a handicap. He tells us that H. G. Wells was a member of the Round Table and spent WW2 as the head of British intelligence. Neither claim is true; and the fact that on this he cites the late Jim Keith, one of the less reliable people in this area, for […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] with spying on their own government at the request of the US and privately told Wilson – hence his actions and concern at the possibility of the intelligence services machinating to remove him from office. Basically, Harold was right, and (presumably with Heath) he remains the only UK prime minister spied on by his […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] million blank ballot papers.2 This led almost inevitably to a rash of public 1 This may be a new name for the National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit. About which see . The text of a request to the Met to explain the relationship between the two organisations is at 2 scepticism (given […]

War on Terror Inc. by Solomon Hughes

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] will be the decision by the American state – with its British chum tagging along behind, as per usual – to privatise much of its military and intelligence services; essentially to surrender its monopoly on the use of violence for political ends. Why did the US and UK military and intelligence agencies, qua agencies, […]

Political life in Britain

Lobster Issue

[…] way he has fascinating stories to tell about John Addey, James Sherwood, Joseph Godson, the Gang of Four and many more. He also had experiences of the intelligence services worth reading. This is not an academic work, though academics could learn much from it. Nor is it just a collection of anecdotes from a […]

More on Hess

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] that Hess was lured into his flight by British agents. This dates to the 1956 publication of the memoirs of Walter Schellenberg chief of the Sicherheitsdienst political intelligence for the SS. His memoirs were written after his conviction by a US military court at Nuremberg for conspiracy to murder Soviet prisoners of war. Schellenberg […]

Using the UK FOIA

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] This is because disclosure of the withheld information would breach the principle that the UK government does not release the names of officials from its own external intelligence agency, and by extension, those of allied intelligence services. Consequently, the 1 FCO has argued that it would seriously compromise such cooperation and thus prejudice the […]

Misleading Parliament – Appendices

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] sure that Wallace had been unjustly treated was that I had talked to my friend, the late Sir Maurice Oldfield, Tony Cavendish, another senior member of the Intelligence Community was equally uncomfortable, as was Field Marshal Sir John Stanier. I knew them well, and wrote both their obituaries for the Independent. I heard you […]

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