Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] of a mind control practitioner going about his work.(12) ‘Poor’ brand ambassadors In Britain, an example of a ‘poor’ BA was Sir John Scarlett, the country’s joint intelligence co-ordinator, who, giving evidence to the televised Hutton inquiry, and in an unsuccessful effort to control/downplay events, ignored his global audience.(13) So did the most powerful […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] announced that Combat 18 was an MI5 ‘honey trap on the far right’; that one of its founders, the American Harold Covington, ‘had known links to the intelligence services’ and was a ‘long-time asset of the FBI’; and that its creation by MI5 was ‘understandable and possibly justifiable at the time’. I kid you […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] ever profits, £9bn and £9.8bn respectively. (2) This was followed by curious press reports that both Shell and BP had hired ex-MI6 staff and a former German intelligence agent to infiltrate Greenpeace (3) and that Tesco had asked MI5 to investigate the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. In an obscure spat about […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] the Pakistan team, lead by A. Q. Khan, trying to build a bomb in the arms race with India. In so doing they alerted a number of intelligence services who attempt to monitor such technology transfers. These services were ignored by their governments who didn’t think it mattered because they couldn’t believe that a […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] these are very much the KGB secrets the Russian government and KGB does want us to read. And no wonder. This is a story of how Soviet intelligence ran rings round the Brits. If there are any secrets the British government is trying to keep buried here, I missed them. But I’m probably suffering […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] though they do not conform to the elaborate and often bizarre scenarios concocted by conspiracy theorists. How, indeed, could it be otherwise in a world full of intelligence agencies, national security bureaucracies, clandestine revolutionary organizations, economic pressure groups, secret societies with hidden political agendas, and the like? No monolithic conspiracy There has never been, […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] on the bombing of Earth First’s Judi Bari; Kenn Thomas on attempts to get Timothy Leary’s FBI file via the FOIA; a disinformation operation by South African intelligence (the non-existent FAPLA); a memoir of radical politics in the mid-West of the 1930s; interview with Flatland editor Jim Martin; plus new books and the Flatland […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] March The Scotsman carried the comments of Juval Aviv, PamAm’s senior Lockerbie investigator.(5) Aviv offered a version of the story first told by Lester Coleman, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer, in Trail of the Octopus. (6) The Aviv-Coleman version is that the bomb was put on the plane at Frankfurt. In 1987 US […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] World War. A proportion of this was paid over to the Perons by Bormann in exchange for being allowed entry into the country. In 1954, when Israeli intelligence agents seeking out Nazi war criminals became aware of the gold’s existence, it was swiftly transferred to the Philippines. Why the Philippines was chosen is not […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] to the bottom of a subject as complex as this simply by appointing a judge and a couple of bright lawyers. You would need a large team, intelligence personnel with access to everything and Prime Ministerial power to sack people for non-cooperation or obstruction, and expert guidance from some of the participants. And none […]