Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)
[…] society in 19th century use of private detectives to break labour organisations; the history of so-called ‘red squads’; the growth of federal law enforcement agencies and their intelligence gathering; the growth of private, political intelligence gathering from McCarthy to the ADL network blown in the 1990s; And much more, all done in a couple […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
[…] attributed to Harold Covington, described as the ‘outside influence to bring together several disparate factions and groupings into C18’ (p. 2). There was speculation of a possible intelligence input, that of the ‘South African state security services’ (p. 3), though the only evidence offered was the presence of some anti-Apartheid individuals on the Redwatch […]
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 46 (Winter 2003)
[…] the Peoples Temple, she summarises the conspiracists’ point of view, which holds ‘that people in Jonestown were murdered by U.S. government agent agents – either military or intelligence. These agents,’ she continues, ‘committed the murders to conceal some other, more damaging information…’.(3) Well, fair enough. The definition certainly describes the point of view of […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)
[…] text of a speech given by Fidel Castro the day after the shooting. Fidel’s speech is rather striking: 24 hours after the shooting he – or his intelligence people – had already spotted the attempts in the immediate aftermath to portray Oswald as pro-Soviet and pro-Castro. We get letters from Kruschev to Castro; we […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)
[…] chemical and biological weapons were ‘blowback’ from U.S. activities. Creating blowback is one of the things the CIA – no, let’s be fair: the U.S. military and intelligence agencies in general – are good at. AP reported on 6 January that the suspects in a series of bombings by Muslim extremists in Manila had […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
[…] authors have to writing a serious historical work. Have they never heard of St. Elmo’s Fire? Or could a simple explanation just be legitimate disinformation from Allied intelligence agencies? And what about the Germans’ known experiments with TV and radio-controlled anti-aircraft missiles? A top secret Nazi project is probably the least likely explanation. Some […]