Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] latterly of USIS. It was Mr. Romerstein who accused me of recycling Soviet disinformation, and who, I would guess, is the source of the rumours in US intelligence circles that the KGB were funding Lobster. Another SIS memoir SIS buffs might like to check the Journal of Contemporary History, July 1995, in which former […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] I.R.A. as paid gunmen and saboteurs. Until now the few Americans involved have served mainly as instructors and they have tended to remain in Eire. But British Intelligence now has wind of a big recruiting campaign in the U.S. backed by pro-I.R.A. organisations in New York. There is no shortage of ex-Vietnam veterans – […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] CIA in mind), as “a system or practice of politics in which accountability is consciously diminished.” This term referred chiefly, but not exclusively, to the world of intelligence agencies and similar organizations, where secrecy and covert operations were adopted as a matter of deliberate policy. ‘I still see value in this definition and mode […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] facts about Information Policy: it was perceived as partly an MI6 operation. Hence the hostility to Wallace shown by MI5 when it got overall control of the intelligence set-up in Northern Ireland. Rubbishing Wallace Since what has now become ‘the Wallace Affair’ broke again at the end of January, all the major disinformation lines […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] the parapolitics of the period in this country. But after that we are off into largely new areas, as Sanders takes us through the political, military and intelligence history of South Africa, through the fall of the apartheid regime and up to 2005. There are occasional familiar episodes – the South African involvement in […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] among key Ba’athist leaders. Saddam Hussein himself had long since retreated into writing novels. Well aware of weakness and despair in the Iraqi leadership, Western military and intelligence agencies prepared for invasion. When Saddam Hussein’s daughter Raghad Hussein requested his assistance in 2004, Al-Ani consulted an international team of lawyers that found the Iraqi […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] Davies suggested that Ryan ‘slowly drew Jordan along the road to military action and became the dominant figure in the bomb plot, the recipient of Jordan’s meticulous intelligence.’ Ryan was originally a member of the Communist Party (as was Jordan) and became a Maoist, whereupon he was expelled from the CP in the 1960s. […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] late Lord Mountbatten, recycling the claims of some on the right that he was a Soviet agent (without any evidence) and there is this: ‘Many within British intelligence circles knew him as a visitor to Kincora, a boy’s home used by the paedophile and gay members of the Protestant Order , civil servants and […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] in New Orleans when ordering Fair Play for Cuba literature. And there are other intriguing connections and coincidences.Eddowes thought that Osborne was either a freelance or Soviet intelligence agent, The Oswald File, op cit, p. 65. I’m not sure what freelance means in this context, but for the Soviets? No. Osborne was pro-Nazi during […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] work of Ernest Bevin, and the European Community is the work of Jean Monnet (with his faithful discipline Schuman) These are not just myths; they are, in intelligence parlance, more like ‘cover stories’. The Marshall Plan is named after the speech on June 5 1947 by US Secretary of State Marshall, which invited European […]