Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] a quick skim across Massiter, Bettaney, Charles Elwell – and thence into British Briefing, David Hart etc. (And Colin Wallace was not ‘a former officer in Army Intelligence’; and has not, to my knowledge, suggested that the League had office space in MI5 headquarters . But since this, like most of the assertions in […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] they duly did, of course. The books concentrates on Moyle’s role as the editor of Defence Helicopter World – a piece of transparent cover for someone whose intelligence role must have been obvious to all concerned. He went sniffing round the Chilean arms manufacturer Cardoen who was planning to produce a kit enabling the […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] Oswald would not have been any sensible person’s choice for a co-conspirator. He was a ‘loner’, mixed-up, of questionable reliability and an unknown quantity to any professional intelligence service. As to charges that the Commission’s report was a rush job, it emerged three months after the deadline originally set. But to the degree that […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] mean the business about Mr. Felt having denied for 30 years that he was Throat, or Woodward’s insistence that Mr. Throat was not a part of the intelligence community. () What I’m concerned about, in a general way, is Deep Throat’s ‘legacy’, which is more or less the ruination of investigative journalism. Through its […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] American stuff is being checked by Geoffrey Stewart-Smith’s institute”. It is argued by Gable’s defenders that in his position he is bound to make connections with various intelligence agencies. But what are we to make of his use of FARI (Stewart-Smith’s institute)? The anonymous 1972 pamphlet said of Stewart-Smith: “It is also his job […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] by Richard Hall mentioned that she wrote for the newsletters Africa Analysis, Africa Confidential and the Economist’s Foreign Report. The last two are frequently talked of as intelligence operations — Brian Crozier and Robert Moss, for example, have edited the latter — but is there any evidence about the former? Seth Kantor died in […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] and Kissinger’s sabotaging of the 1968 Paris peace talks (an early ‘October Surprise’), no discussion of Nixon’s links with Howard Hughes, and the links to that vast intelligence underworld. Nixon’s defining moments, the Watergate scandal, his impeachment, and resignation, exist in a similarly conspiracy-free light. Greenberg repeatedly quotes with approval those reporters who admit […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] Chris Ryder are treated as straightforward sources despite public knowledge about their disinformation roles. Alan Protheroe of the BBC is not described as a former Army TA intelligence officer. Still, these are minor criticisms of the best analysis I have read of the politics of news production in this country – and the best […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] come and arrest him. Years later he claimed he got himself jailed to be off the streets when JFK was killed. He claimed he had been an intelligence officer who had been working with Lee Harvey Oswald and been asked by the KGB to kill Oswald to try to derail the assassination plot. (This […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] the NSA-run global network of communications interception. But his work goes much further than that and anyone interested in GCHQ or the NSA, the history of signals intelligence since WW2, the relationship between politicians and spooks, the anti-nuclear campaign in New Zealand, or, indeed, the geo-politics of that part of the Pacific, will find […]