South of the border

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] you’ll get the fuller drift. Many of the ex-spooks are quite open about their past employment. Take, for example, Dr Gerhard Conrad PhD – Visiting Professor in Intelligence Studies who, ‘is a former senior member of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND)’.7 Mr Keith Beaven, a Visiting Research Fellow, is more circumspect. His profile […]

Megrahi – You Are My Jury: The Lockerbie Evidence by John Ashton

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] continues even after al-Megrahi’s death. The book makes clear that al-Megrahi was a vulnerable figure. He, along with many other Libyans, was a US sanctions buster, had intelligence connections, two passports and did not tell his wife about his regular trips abroad, including those to Malta. But Ashton also puts that into political context […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue

[…] they omitted from the story which is significant. To discuss Oswald-Cuba-CIA without referring to all the information we now have showing that Oswald was working for US intelligence agencies3 looks like deception by omission – disinformation by omission. But the omission is only deliberate if Shenon and Sabato know the 1 ‘How the CIA […]

Undercover killers at the BBC

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] Lobster on the professional and political activities of Guest More’s father,4 I wrote the foreword to Undercover Killers. Atkinson’s discovery of a devastating leak of raw police intelligence that dropped into the hands of professional criminals in Manchester has exposed the danger of Westminster government schemes that were pioneered by Margaret Thatcher – to […]

Spookaroonie!

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: Inside British Intelligence 100 years of MI5 and MI6 Gordon Thomas London: JR books, 2009, £20 Spooks The Unofficial History of MI5 Thomas Hennessy and Claire Thomas Stroud (Glos.): Amberley, 2009, £30 Robin Ramsay I haven’t properly read either of these books and cannot really review them. However, there are some things I can […]

South of the Border (updated 4 Aug 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] insider’s account of how the CIA spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan (New York: Presidio Press, 2007). 17 5 locals, asking that it be prioritised for intelligence purposes because ‘much more money was available for purely military purposes’. The author states he found it assuring to see the Afghani men going through the […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] they omitted from the story which is significant. To discuss Oswald-Cuba-CIA without referring to all the information we now have showing that Oswald was working for US intelligence agencies ‘How the CIA came to doubt the official story of JFK’s murder’ at or . 1 1 2 Still thinking about Dallas But the omission […]

The Gloucester Horror

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] cover might stand for. National Archives staff were able to offer no solution. D/CIA was of course the official designation of the Director of the USA’s Central Intelligence Agency, who in 1986 would have been William J Casey (died 1987). At the time, the office was designated DCI (Director of Central Intelligence), until finally […]

Secret Life of Uri Geller:CIA masterspy? by Jonathan Margolis

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] Geller was a fraud, essentially – and ended up accepting that he wasn’t. This is in part a rehash of that with some new material added, the intelligence stuff – work with Mossad and the CIA – that was aired in the TV programme ‘The secret life of Uri Geller;’ 1 plus some further […]

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