In a Common Cause: the Anti-Communist Crusade in Britain 1945-60

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] issues are raised.’ (5) IRD worked out of, and owed allegiance to, the Foreign Office, though it often worked closely with MI6’s anti-Soviet Section IX. It used intelligence officers from some of the war-time propaganda agencies like the Political Warfare Executive, and employed a number of emigres from Eastern Europe. There is little evidence […]

Magazines/Articles

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

Parapolitics/ Intelligence November 1984 – February 1985 The usual invaluable mixture of precis of stories from the world’s press plus reprints of some entire articles and the occasional original piece. November’s includes a long and excellent piece by Jonathan Marshall on the Strange career of Ronald Hedley Stark. PP/Intelligence subscriptions $20 payable to ADI […]

The military use of electromagnetic, microwave and mind control technology

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[…] text: ‘Beginning in 1960 the Soviet Union directed the high frequency beams of radiation at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow which were calculated not to pick up intelligence but cause physiological effects on personnel. The effects the Soviets calculated to achieve in the personnel serving (at least as early as 1960) included (A) Malaise […]

Persian Drugs: Oliver North, the DEA and Covert Operations in the Mideast

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] the American captives in Lebanon. North’s operation was the disastrous culmination of a long history of ties between federal drug enforcement authorities and various arms of US intelligence, including the CIA. Like the Federal Bureau of Narcotics before it, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) enjoys expertise in undercover operations and special access to foreign […]

Web Update

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] is ‘War on Terrorism’: Repercussions of 11 Sept. 2001 The Sept 11 2001 attacks on the US and subsequent ‘war against terrorism’ have provided law enforcement/ intelligence agencies with an opportunity to push for sweeping new powers, plus fast-tracking of legislation already on the agenda, to curb civil liberties and electronic privacy. Far-reaching […]

Deep Black: the secrets of space espionage (Book Review) & Journals

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

DEEP BLACK: the secrets of space espionage William E. Burrows, Bantam Press, 1988 P. N. Rogers The National Reconnaissance Office is the only ‘black’ US intelligence agency remaining. Formed in 1960, the US only conceded officially that they had reconnaissance satellites twelve years later, and to this day maintain that these are the responsibility […]

Hilda Murrell: a death in the private sector

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] Security Service. I was surprised to learn that the IPI was not a private members Institute but also included officials from all branches of the Armed Forces, Intelligence, Foreign Office, as well as Special Branch and Police, Customs etc.. These official individuals openly fraternised with Private Investigators and Security Consultants who, in some cases, […]

Rothschild, the right, the far-right and the Fifth Man

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] badly shaken last year by the many innuendoes linking him to the Cambridge spy ring of the 1930s. A typical example was Anthony Glees’ book on ‘British intelligence and Communist Subversion’: “Rothschild (was) remarkably intimate with people subsequently proven to be secret Communists, and Blunt was a major Communist mole”. (1) In a gesture […]

Maria Novotny: From Prague With Love

Lobster Issue 2 (1983)

[…] affairs and personal intrigues of Ward, Profumo and Ivanov were the British Security Services; and further back, and probably not apparent to the participants, was the wider intelligence battle between East and West. It is worth going into some detail on this area as it provides clues to Novotny’s true position.(13) In April 1961 […]

Rebranding SIS

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] (including internal and/or ‘friendly’), as ‘enemy’, even if the attack was out-sourced to an individual or terrorist organisation – knew exactly what they were doing. No national intelligence agency, including SIS, defines its product since this changes according to local markets. It is the ‘branding’, targeted overseas at both the status quo and the […]

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