The following is extracted from the book Sniffing Planes, Extreme Right, Intelligence and J. Violet by Pierre Pean (Editions Fayard, France, 1984). This, in turn, is based on a secret report written by a West German intelligence official, Hans Langemann, which was published in 1980 by Der Spiegel. Langemann was, at the time he […]
[…] boomerang In America, Mayor Bloomberg has banned smoking in public places, especially in restaurants, inadvertently turning New York into an unlikely but almost spook-free zone. (1) American intelligence officers may not smoke, but some of their overseas contacts will. If meeting in the West, they will prefer to do so in London; or, if […]
[…] be proper or unbiased, he promptly back-tracked, adding ‘that casts a totally different light on the matter’. Although Weaver’s ultimate Roswell Report mentioned that the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC), which had been the main recipient body for the analyses and investigation of UFO reports for the USAF’s public investigation efforts, no longer existed, […]
[…] the Grand National, child abuse, psychics and animal rights (and, yes, one on male violence with Oliver Reed). Although this Lobster article is indeed necessarily preoccupied with intelligence matters, and so runs the risk of accidentally giving the impression that Michael Grade’s caricature has merit, the programmes we made tell a different story. After […]
[…] names, dates and documentation that the super-spooks were running a child-abuse and computer fraud gang in Washington DC during the 80s under the guidance of a USAF intelligence agent, Marion David Pettie. Unclassified seems somewhat uncertain about the piece, however, and refers readers’ enquiries to the author Wendell L. Minnick. The latest Unclassified (number […]
[…] disappointment sometimes. Insider view Jeffrey Bale (see Lobsters 18, 19, 21, 29) sent me the following from Leo D. Carl’s CIA Insider’s Dictionary of US and Foreign Intelligence, Counterintelligence & Tradecraft (Washington, DC: National Intelligence Book Centre, 1996). ‘Lobster: title of an antiestablishment newsletter published two to three times annually by two British eccentrics […]
[…] you think, ‘Oh New Zealand seems a long way away, so why take an interest?’ it should be noted that N.Z. is a member of the American-dominated intelligence and surveillance network of which Britain is another junior member, and what goes on down under can inform us about developments in this benighted isle. New […]
[…] to John Smith (1992-4) and Special Adviser to Jack Cunningham. In 1997 she became Chair of the Atlantic Council and she has since been appointed to the Intelligence and Security Committee.(4) The SIS-John Smith connection extends a little further. John Smith’s widow, Lady Smith, was appointed to the SIS-front organisation, the Hakluyt Foundation. Baroness […]
[…] Harper Poulson, Sir John Orr and Roger Fortune. However Headway was in a decline which the change of ownership did not reverse. (13) The Focus and Churchill’s intelligence network The 1930s came to be called the ‘wilderness years’ for Churchill because during that period he failed to be given any position of political authority. […]
Gecas and Special Branch A wonderful example of the reach and power of intelligence connections was provided in January. Why did the British state refuse to extradite Anton Gecas, the WW2 Lithuanian war criminal, to the Soviet Union in 1976? Turns out not only had Gecas worked for SIS at the end of WW2, […]
