The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] information about James Angleton, James McCord (one of the early Olson investigators and later a Watergate burglar), William Colby, Richard Helms, William Donovan, Allen Dulles (later the intelligence community’s ‘minder’ on the Warren Commission, who had earlier been sacked from the CIA by JFK) and many others, including Dr Harold Abramson and the Dr […]

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[…] found his temperament suited to the constantly-shifting kaleidoscope of life online. He had drifted into digital selfpromotion, which also allowed him an artistic outlet for his considerable intelligence. The hard-right conservative capitalist reinvented himself as ‘Coach Red Pill’,5 a nickname he admitted was ‘cringey’ marketing. Using this brand, Lira published a steady output of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is pretty good. 12 6 truth: Spooks, now and then Cryptome is the Website of John Young, who has been publishing information about states and especially their intelligence services for about 15 years.14 He recently published a list of putative MI6 officers15 and I was struck by how little it interested me. In 1989 […]

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[…] but it has been co-opted by NATO.1 It may still do interesting work but I now wouldn’t trust it any more than I would any other NATO/American intelligence operation. It has substantial funding, employs numerous staff, the behaviour of some of whom is becoming that of any other psy-war outfit. Bellingcat staffer Christopher Grozev2 […]

The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] acquaintances, such as John Cairncross’.2 But whereas these accounts could be dismissed, effectively marginalised, as the work of the Party’s enemies, Andrews’ exploration of Klugmann’s involvement in intelligence work for the Soviets is absolutely conclusive. Andrews begins his biography with an account of Klugmann’s meeting with a Cambridge friend who was working at the […]

Using the UK FOIA, part II

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: Using the UK FOIA, part II Nick Must Why does the UK government not want me to know the names of attendees at two European intelligence meetings, which were hosted in London and that took place more than 65 years ago? It’s a question that really does need answering, particularly when one considers that […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of Pink Floyd fame) wondering if the Hamas attack on Israel was a false flag attack.26 I confess I did initially wonder if the much vaunted Israeli intelligence services had let it happen. Surely the Palestinian populations were completely penetrated by human and electronic means? Apparently not. Back to the notion of a false […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) loved intrigue. Even into her late 70s she still read voraciously about America’s foreign and domestic policies, and regularly entertained former CIA counter- intelligence chief James Angleton, for what the two called ‘Spy chat’.1 A dedicated anti-communist and dyed-in-the-wool Republican, she had served as a Representative for Connecticut between 1943 […]

The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the ‘Gladio’ networks

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) were instigated. One figure who played a part in the preparations for what would become the ‘Gladio’ networks was British military intelligence officer (and future Conservative MP) officer Airey Neave. From late May of 1942, Neave was an officer in the ‘escape and evasion’ department MI9 and engaged […]

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[…] closely monitored by senior Agency officers—including the assistant deputy director of plans, the acting chief of operations in the Western Hemisphere, the liaison officer for the Counter intelligence Staff, and the chief of the Mexico Desk—all of who signed off on a cable about Oswald six week before JFK was killed. In short, the […]

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