Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] thesis – there was a switch – and has tried to trace the life of the ‘hidden’ Oswald. He appears to have established the existence of an intelligence operation which began with two boys, of different heights, but who looked similar and who lived parallel lives. One, Harvey, was Russian-speaking, probably a refugee from […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] place under a Labour government again (Cf the ABC case in 1977-8), and that the Labour Party doesn’t know how to deal with national security and the intelligence services. Dorril said authors are under a lot of pressure to cooperate with the D-notice Committee; if they refuse to cooperate, their books are sometimes passed […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] Who of the British Secret State. Though I cannot remember why Dorril thought this and though there is nothing specific in Ashdown’s known career which says ‘ intelligence’, the career move from Special Boat Squadron to Foreign Office is pretty obvious.(1) The alleged SIS affiliation seems to have stuck, however. The doyen of British […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] full support’ but warned against premature action liable to backfire. Meanwhile the CIA agents and their friends in Chile were to deploy ‘propaganda, black operations, surfacing of intelligence or disinformation, personal contacts, or anything else your imagination can conjure’ to secure the downfall of the Allende regime.(4) Of course Allende’s left-wing government, the first […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] which they confessed to crimes they palpably had not committed, and the accounts given by the POW’s from the Korean War, attracted the interest of the Western intelligence in research and development of methods to control and alter the human mind. The judgements at Nuremberg and human rights issues became irrelevant once more. As […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] naff poetry), part rock culture trivia, and three huge pieces; ‘The CIA’s manipulation of the Labour Party’, ‘The FBI’s secret war against the American Indians’ and ‘British intelligence and covert action: how the British state supports international terrorism’. It’s a funny mixture. Page 181 is a cartoon strip which depicts Arnold Swarzenegger as Jesus […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] that’s what Washington wants”, he would say, “then I’ll support it.” ‘ (p. 240) And was it known, for example, that ‘the weekly report of the Joint Intelligence Committee in London…. was the product of a combined effort with the chief of our CIA station’ (p. 225), or that in 1967, when Soviet Foreign […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] had been laundered in my name through Dutch bank accounts by the late Dennis Robertson, my ex-wife’s accountant; and that he laundered funds for SIS, the British intelligence service. The core of the application process was an official interview conducted by the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry would then make a decision based on […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] HORNBEAM, trawlers had been used during the first Cold War to spy on Soviet shipping. But the MOD spokesperson refused to confirm that some trawlers had carried intelligence officers. Statewatch Bulletin (Jan/Feb 1992) includes an important update to their paper on Gladio network, quoting from the Belgian parliamentary commission into the subject. The update […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] confessed to playing a role in the King shooting, hiding the gun used after the event.) Black boxing An anonymous author, claiming to have been a US intelligence officer of some stripe, included this in an article which is entertaining if light on facts. (A book is promised.)(4) ‘A little side note for you: […]