Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate Jonathan Marshall Note: this article is excerpted from an unpublished book titled Watergate, the American Deep State, and the Legacy of Secret Government by Jonathan Marshall. The Watergate affair of 1972-74, though widely regarded as one of the the gravest […]

The Clandestine Caucus: a minor update

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: The Clandestine Caucus: a minor update Robin Ramsay I researched and wrote The Clandestine Caucus (listed on the website as CC) in the years following the publication of Smear! Wilson and the Secret State. It continued that book’s exploration of role of the spooks in British politics, with an interest in the history of the […]

Unredacted: Russia, Trump and the Fight for Democracy by Christopher Steele

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] unfolds. Steele observed the collapse of Soviet Communism firsthand. He describes one particularly telling incident he witnessed in Moscow in 1991 that very much sticks in the mind, both his and mine. He saw a car crashed into a lamp-post with a dead driver at the wheel on his way home one Friday night […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] a world war and rationing, he parties hard. Keeping up with his endless social activities (he is always dining, noon and night, and continually drinking) brings to mind the observation of how difficult it would be for any reader to try and emulate the alcohol intake of James Bond, and remain sober.2 In the […]

David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] in question. Reading it will probably give you a much better understanding of what I am trying to explain! https:// www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster75/lob75-uk-foia.pdf . . . With that in mind, I can see from page 166 of Annie’s book that the redaction, censoring the direct attempt to name Tunworth, is about 15 letters long. This prompts […]

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: Meis Mitzvah in Shrewsbury Five months after Olivia Jane Frank, a former Mossad spy,1 died in the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, the Jewish Chronicle revealed her story to readers of the oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world. They gave her a double deck headline. Trans Mossad spy who helped track down the Munich terrorists […]

Malcolm Kennedy: European Court of Human Rights judgement

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] Summer 2010 be overcome in order to lodge an application with the IPT. In order to ensure the efficiency of the secret surveillance regime, and bearing in mind the importance of such measures to the fight against terrorism and serious crime, the Court considers that the restrictions on the applicant’s rights in the context […]

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