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[…] – minus the orgy claim – when Johnson was Foreign Secretary, see or . 2 1 Not that any of this is secret. The House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee’s 2020 report Russia analysed the creation of the ‘laundromat’ in London for the washing of dodgy money.3 That report noted: The money was […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[PDF file]: […] ‘contacts in Czech intelligence’.(56) MI5’s pretext for this was the fact that Benn, while Minister of Technology, had been lunching with Czech diplomats, some of whom were intelligence officers under cover, and had not reported the contacts to his departmental MI5 officer.(57) But while Benn was the chief focus of the paranoid right’s conspiracy […]

The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] it had become clear that were elections to be held the government in Hanoi would win and the Saigon regime would collapse. Despite this certainty and the intelligence showing that there was absolutely no popular support for the elite in Saigon, the decision was made to have Ngô Dình Diem deposed in favour of […]

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[…] the clunky headline in the Daily Mail had it.17 Two Russians were named in the article: Ruslan Aleksandrovich 16 or 17 5 Peretyatko, who is an FSB intelligence officer, and Andrey Stanislavovich Korinets. On the same day it was reported in the US: A federal grand jury in San Francisco returned an indictment on […]

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] no living relatives whose burial had to be financed through charity. However, her identity and past work could be confirmed through an anonymous source in the Israeli intelligence community. The Jewish Telegraph in Manchester reported last November that Misaskim Manchester, an Orthodox charity founded in Brooklyn, New York, in 2004 by volunteer ambulance attendants, […]

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[…] the long, clunky headline in the Daily Mail on 7 December had it.17 Two Russians were named in the article: Ruslan Aleksandrovich Peretyatko, who is an FSB intelligence officer, and Andrey Stanislavovich Korinets. 16 or 17 5 On the same day it was reported in the US: A federal grand jury in San Francisco […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] are the chances of there being anything significant about the assassination on official US paper anywhere? Assuming, for the sake of argument, that somewhere within the US intelligence community there is institutional knowledge of whodunit,4 we may also assume that nothing will be left on paper which points towards the assassination conspiracy (if anything […]

The liberal apocalypse; or understanding the 70s and 80s

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[PDF file]: […] the course of this Harrison offers a variety of euphemisms: Mrs Thatcher ‘displayed formidable intellectual energy over a long period . . . Colleagues recognised a considerable intelligence of the specialised kind that a democratic politician needs’ (p. 208); had ‘an intelligence too firmly practical for the self-consciously intellectual to feel comfortable with it’ […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] had ingeniously argued that the last war crimes prisoner of Spandau in Berlin was not in fact Hess, but a double, substituted with the connivance of British intelligence. Rzheshevsky seemed surprised that, unlike the KGB files, the British files on Hess were closed for research until 2017 by an act of Parliament. To be […]

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[…] the course of this Harrison offers a variety of euphemisms: Mrs Thatcher ‘displayed formidable intellectual energy over a long period . . . Colleagues recognised a considerable intelligence of the specialised kind that a democratic politician needs’ (p. 208); had ‘an intelligence too firmly practical for the self-consciously intellectual to feel comfortable with it’ […]

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