Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] a grenade at me. I killed him with a burst from the Uzi. It ripped his body apart.4 She was recruited by A’man, Israeli Defence Force military intelligence, for her first foray as a spy in 1981. I was to play a non-Jewish shiksa , claiming to be a PLO sympathiser, on an undercover […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue

[PDF file]: […] a grenade at me. I killed him with a burst from the Uzi. It ripped his body apart.4 She was recruited by A’man, Israeli Defence Force military intelligence, for her first foray as a spy in 1981. I was to play a non-Jewish shiksa , claiming to be a PLO sympathiser, on an undercover […]

An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair by Miles Goslett

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Conservative Attorney General from 2011, who refused a request by medical experts and his former party leader for a full inquest, is now the chairman of Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee? Did you know that Dr Kelly, smeared as a ‘Walter Mitty character’ by No 10 official Tom Kelly in its 2003 Iraq war […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] demolished, in a US court, with the trial of Trump ally Roger Stone who told the Wikileaks story. Stone was found guilty of lying to the House Intelligence Committee. The chief prosecution witness against him was one Randy Credico, who Stone was claiming as his link to Wikileaks. Craig Murray has interviewed Credico at […]

Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] Warrenpoint. Subsequently, the former head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield, had been brought out of retirement and appointed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ‘to co-ordinate security and intelligence’ in Northern Ireland. As a part of this, and in consultation with the serving Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, John Hermon, it was decided […]

Colin Wallace and the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] from chapter 3 of that report.6 para 391 We are satisfied that it was not until 1980 that the RUC Special Branch, MI5, the SIS and Army Intelligence became aware that McGrath had been sexually abusing residents at Kincora, and they learnt of that when it became the 4 . One-time Tara member Roy […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the attacks, while ignoring an oil rich ally which had everything to do with them. The justification for war is based on some witches’ brew of faulty intelligence, concocted intelligence and ignored good intelligence. Decent people are forced to lie on an international stage. All sensible advice is ignored and rabid neo-con draft dodgers […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Infowars is getting a White House press pass.18 Who’s next? David Icke? Spooks ahoy! And there is the delicious if faintly ridiculous story of the Cambridge University Intelligence Seminar, one of whose convenors was Professor Christopher Andrew, the British spooks’ favourite tame academic. One of the commercial sponsors – to the tune of about […]

John Stonehouse book reviews

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] £16.99, h/b Robin Ramsay Well here’s a thing: two books, using much of the same material – centrally a file on Stonehouse held by the former Czech intelligence service (Státní Bezpečnost, State Security, generally referred to as the StB) which come to opposing conclusions. Actually even ‘using much of the same material’ can’t be […]

Using the UK FOIA, part III

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to use two caveats from the FOIA. The first is Section 27 which, in this case, covers the names of foreign intelligence officers. As the judgement rightly notes, a reliance on Section 27 requires that there be: ‘. . . a real and significant risk that disclosure would […]

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