A Spy Alone by Charles Beaumont

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the ‘laundromat’ in ‘Londongrad’ for Russian money and the consequent Russian influence on British political life. Not that any of this is secret. The House of Commons Intelligence and The first was The Andropov Deception by ‘John Rossiter’ (actually Brian Crozier) in issue 10. There is an interview with the author at . His […]

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 […]

The secret life of Bellingcat’s so-called ‘Timmi Allen’

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 9 Olaf’s father was apparently a Stasi officer,10 and it seems that Olaf was inspired to follow in his footsteps. As is the case with many other intelligence and security agencies, literal patronage was a preferential pathway for potential Stasi recruits. Perhaps the best-known instance of this structural nepotism is to be found in […]

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[…] in it.14 There are indeed loose Israeli connections to JFK’s demise. Among the big items on that list would be: * James Angleton, head of CIA counter- intelligence, had his people monitoring Oswald’s activities in the US upon his return from the USSR. Why, we don’t know; and whether or not this amounted to […]

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 […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

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[PDF file]: […] piece is one of a number kept in CIA files and released as a result of the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, established in 1975 and chaired by Senator Frank Church. It can be found on page 6 of the scanned documents available at . 13 4 […]

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[…] first omission is the substantial political underpinning to the government’s assault on the NUM. For the previous 20 years or so a lobby of former and serving intelligence and security personnel had been asserting that there was a substantial Soviet threat to the UK in the form of the Communist Party of Great Britain […]

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[…] in it.3 There are indeed loose Israeli connections to JFK’s demise. Among the big items on that list would be: * James Angleton, head of CIA counter- intelligence, had his people monitoring Oswald’s activities in the US upon his return from the USSR. Why, we don’t know; and whether or not this amounted to […]

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[…] in it.3 There are indeed loose Israeli connections to JFK’s demise. Among the big items on that list would be: * James Angleton, head of CIA counter- intelligence, had his people monitoring Oswald’s activities in the US upon his return from the USSR. Why, we don’t know; and whether or not this amounted to […]

The ‘Rothschild connection’ the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is the failure to find Iraq’s ‘WMD stockpiles’ (Bush) or even an active WMD program, the original rationale for the invasion. The protagonists conveniently blame an ‘ intelligence failure’ (Bush) and ‘intelligence.…that turned out to be incorrect’ (Blair) for this omission;9 but then invoke new justifications for the war, including Saddam Hussein’s horrendous human […]

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