The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] ‘……the armed forces, police or national security services‘ – a phrase whose time is a-coming, I think; a little hint of the amalgamation of the security and intelligence services now being talked of. (See Corinne Souza’s piece in Lobster 40.) Things reptilian Despite my best efforts to avoid David Icke’s nonsensical ravings a dollop […]

Crozier country: Free Agent: the unseen war 1941-1991

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] which begins with the Leveller, the State Research collective and Time Out — basically got it right: Crozier was a spook, working for the British and American intelligence services. Crozier would deny that he worked for anybody: ‘at all times I remained independent, executing only tasks that were in line with my own objectives.'(pp. […]

Miscellaneous: Manning Clark. L. Ron Hubbard Jnr.

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] (Penthouse June 1983) In a mass of fascinating stories of Hubbard Snr., is an account of him selling military secrets to the Soviets, and the Soviet bloc intelligence services sending agents into the Scientology org – precisely because the ideas of scientology appealed to people like the RV scientists who, in the course of […]

‘A Most Extraordinary Case’

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] to your case, and are unable to assist you further.’ Kennedy wrote to the Home Secretary, Jack Straw, three times in June/July 1999. The replies, from the Intelligence and Security Liaison Unit of the Home Office Organised and International Crime Directorate (12 August 1999) and from the Home Secretary’s Advisory Board, Metropolitan Police Committee […]

Splinter Factor update

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] it is clear that Sulzberger shared the paper’s intimate relations with the CIA.20 .Hayden B. Peake sent me a photocopy of the review of Splinter Factor from Intelligence and Espionage; an Analytical Bibliography by George Constantinides (Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado). This includes ‘The story is quite unreliable… one of the worst books to appear […]

Historical Notes (De Courcy, Pilcher and Hess; The 1949 sterling crisis)

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] ran a publication called Review of World Affairs, a kind of running commentary on the international scene. The USSR suspected that this was an arms length British intelligence operation whose purpose was to sow distrust between members of the wartime Grand Alliance so that when the war finished Britain would be positioned for an […]

Trying to kill Nasser

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] accomplished by Egyptian officers using a cache of weapons hidden in the sand. The key man in Cairo was Mahmoud Khalil, the head of Egyptian Air Force Intelligence who was called to a meeting in Rome with his MI6 contact in February 1957. Between then and the following November Khalil was given a total […]

Spies and children

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] needs to be struck between: the rights (both legal and moral) of children; the rights of parents and obligations to their child as well as to the intelligence agencies as employer; and the employers’ obligations to both, where these conflict. An example would be in Rimington’s sister agency, SIS, where the practice used to […]

The Kincora scandal and related subjects

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] all about Kincora in 1974 — Ed Moloney and Andy Pollak, Irish Times, 25 June 1985, p. 7. MI5 knew about assault allegations, Kincora cover-up part of intelligence plot — Ed Moloney and Andy Pollak, Irish Times, 26 June 1985, p. 16. The queer card — Phoenix, 8 November 1985, p. 9. Epilogue on […]

Our American problem

Book cover
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] wrote that book – The End of History – showing that the American Way was the ultimate human achievement. Others are (or were) prominent in the American intelligence community, including Carnes Lord, Abram Shulsky and Gary Schmitt. All these were either taught by Strauss directly, or by students of his. So was the author […]

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