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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

Korean war biological warfare? Issue 11 of the Bulletin of Cold War International History Project contained what appears to be evidence that the allegations by North Korea and the Chinese that the US were using biological warfare during the Korean War were false – were in fact disinformation. Documents apparently from former Soviet archives seem … Read more

The Nemesis File: the true story of an SAS execution squad

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Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

[…] they were rubbished in the Sunday Times (26 November 1995) by MOD flacks James Adams and Liam Clarke; and Fred Holroyd, who was in working in Army Intelligence in the same patch in the same period, has not dismissed them. He says that a lot of Republicans did simply disappear in this period. The […]

A conversation with Peter Dale Scott

Lobster Issue 7 (1985)

[…] would sack a large number of ageing officers and have a smaller Washington headquarters working with a larger number of agents through third nations – use the intelligence forces of other countries rather than the CIA – which was implemented by Nixon in ’72 or so. But the whole idea, which involved the material […]

CIA and Drug-Trafficking by Contra Supporters

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] including an important piece by Robert Parry, ‘Lost History: Contras, Dirty Money and the CIA.’ Another important background piece is Jack Blum’s testimony to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee last year, which is reproduced in Covert Action Quarterly no. 59. However, in my opinion the two best pieces on the CIA-drugs issue which appeared […]

Ultimate Sacrifice

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] – or in Chicago or Tampa – there is no evidence. The case they do make is that after the event Robert Kennedy and the entire military- intelligence complex in the US had a major interest in not revealing anything about the several operations that were going on against Castro. The Kennedy ‘coup’ plan […]

A War of Words: a Cold War Witness

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] Sir) Roger Hollis, and Norman Reddaway representing the IRD. At the end of it, Brook instructed Hollis to make available to the Foreign Office, with security collateral, intelligence about communist malpractices in the unions that could be used by IRD. This led, among other things, to the ousting of Foulkes and Haxell from the […]

Eye Spy!

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] Lander, Director-General of MI5. Our fearless journalist reports that ‘Sir Steven had clearly been shaken by cruel and untimely remarks made by Tom King, chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee.’ Poor baby! How fortunate that EYE SPY! was there to sympathise. Unnamed fearless reporter continues: ‘The Director-General should never have been put in […]

Economic Fundamentalism: a Laboratory Experiment

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Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

[…] I know. On this generally, see Paul Landais-Stamp and Paul Rogers, Rocking the Boat (Berg, Oxford and New York, 1989). For a brief account, focused on the intelligence connections, see Robin Ramsay, ‘How the US tries to subvert Lange’, END Journal No. 26, February 1987. Between 1983 and ’86 seventeen employees of TVNZ went. […]

The Cyprus Conspiracy: America, Espionage and the Turkish Invasion

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] partner – to keep the people of Cyprus internally divided (Turks against Greeks) and thus incapable of challenging the presence of the British and American military and intelligence bases on the island. Having read nothing about Cyprus for over 20 years – and forgotten that – almost all of this was a revelation to […]

A Game of Moles: the Deceptions of an MI6 Officer

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] contender for the prize for most inaccurate jacket ever written. It begins by stating that this is the first MI6 memoir (it isn’t), calls MI6 officer Bristow an ‘agent’, (the one thing which drives intelligence officers nuts), and then makes claims not to be found in the text. Of interest only to serious MI6 buffs.

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