Britain’s Secret Wars: How and Why the United Kingdom sponsors conflict around the world by T. J. Coles

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] this book Coles uses the same techniques to explore…. well, not really secret wars so much as barely reported foreign policy events: military training missions, weapons sales, intelligence operations and attempts to manipulate other (relatively minor) countries in the interests of either – take your pick – multinationals or the global free trade agenda. […]

Everybody Knows: Corruption in America by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] had testimony from 36 victims. The US Attorney for South Florida at that time, Alexander Acosta, later claimed that he had been told that ‘Epstein “belonged to intelligence” and to leave it alone’. The incredible deal that Epstein’s legal team, including Dershowitz, negotiated involved him being on work release for twelve hours a day. […]

The MOSSAD Spy by Olivia Frank

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] see what others hadn’t: Olivia’s life spent concealing the fact that she felt she was a woman might have given her the deception skills to be an intelligence officer. At 18 she joined the Israel Defence Force (IDF) as a woman, in preparation for entering Mossad. There are vivid accounts of military engagements and […]

GLADIO: NATO’s dagger at the Heart of Europe; the Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis by Richard Cottrell

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 1974 Cottrell has added the Cecil King-Lord Mountbatten meeting of 1968. (pp. 236/7) He has Sir Maurice Oldfield, a career-long SIS officer, as ‘MI5’s director of counter- intelligence and deputy controller’. He tells us (p. 240) that Peter Wright’s book ‘gave credence to Wilson’s persistent claims that he was the target of a conspiracy […]

The British state’s failed attempt to kill off the Freedom of Information Act

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] problem with US FOIA.’16 The CIA Operational Files exemption to which Mr Jones is referring was created in 1984 (appropriately, some might think) and allows the Central Intelligence Agency to withhold anything it claims is ‘operational’ without even requiring the material in question to be reviewed. ‘ the CIA has stretched the definition of […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the civilian government of President Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo. The CIA was said to be ‘trying to take over the drug war’ by making heavy payments to army intelligence, or G-2—the same institution that was Noriega’s stepping stone to power. The military was linked to death squads that were blamed for dozens of deaths or […]

Cryptoscatology: Conspiracy Theory as Art Form by Robert Guffey

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] or false is a handicap. He tells us that H. G. Wells was a member of the Round Table and spent WW2 as the head of British intelligence. Neither claim is true; and the fact that on this he cites the late Jim Keith, one of the less reliable people in this area, for […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] with spying on their own government at the request of the US and privately told Wilson – hence his actions and concern at the possibility of the intelligence services machinating to remove him from office. Basically, Harold was right, and (presumably with Heath) he remains the only UK prime minister spied on by his […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] million blank ballot papers.2 This led almost inevitably to a rash of public 1 This may be a new name for the National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit. About which see . The text of a request to the Met to explain the relationship between the two organisations is at 2 scepticism (given […]

Political life in Britain

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[…] way he has fascinating stories to tell about John Addey, James Sherwood, Joseph Godson, the Gang of Four and many more. He also had experiences of the intelligence services worth reading. This is not an academic work, though academics could learn much from it. Nor is it just a collection of anecdotes from a […]

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