Rebranding SIS

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] the Muslim one. It means, among other things, that recruitment of foreign agents becomes difficult. As a rule, people do not wish to be associated with the murder of private citizens. The entire British Establishment image has been branded ‘dirty’. Lloyds of London (long associated with SIS) has been exposed as the cesspit it […]

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Enemies of the State

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] name the ‘man closely linked to intelligence circles’? The late G.K. Young is unlikely to object. Why not name Duncan Campbell, the person MI5 asked him to murder? Why recount the fascist activities and intelligence connections of ‘Lutz’ and ‘the Major’ without telling us that they are Column 88 leader Les Vaughan and Ian […]

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The Man from the FRU

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

Suffer the innocents? The Stevens inquiry into Britain’s state assassination policy in Northern Ireland in the 1980s began in September 1989. The police officers who signed up for it didn’t think it would take long to do. ‘We thought it was going to be a fairly routine investigation. We didn’t expect to find that there … Read more

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CIA and Drug-Trafficking by Contra Supporters

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] Matta himself remained untouchable until 1988, after Congressional support for the Contras was terminated altogether.(15) By this time Matta Ballesteros was sought by the DEA for the murder in Mexico of DEA agent Enrique Camarena. Two of his associates and co-defendants in that murder case, Rafael Caro Quintero and Miguel Felix Gallardo of the […]

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PR, Iraq and ‘the allies’

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] the Christian population and other groups are airbrushed. In addition, it has excelled at ‘bouncing responsibility’: For example Iraqis, it claims, were to blame for the shameful murder of Shia cleric Abd al-Majid Khu’i whose memory has since been traduced because he accepted CIA money. The truth is that this vital, courageous man returned […]

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Iraq

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] was interviewed on the Alec Jones radio programme (3) where he stated: ‘David was murdered on the 17th. On Saturday the 19th, within 48 hours of the murder, I was contacted by a British intelligence officer who told me he’d been murdered. That didn’t take me by surprise, I was suspicious of the suicide […]

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The Secret War

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] is scanty, is essential. Instead of documentation we get stuff like this (taken from p69 after opening the book at random). The emphases are mine. Discussing the murder of one Eamon McMahon, McArdle says: “McMahon, a debonair type, was a Republican from a fiercely Nationalist family. He was generally recognised as a shadowy paramilitary […]

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The Pinay Circle and Destabilisation in Europe

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] Palme (10)Was Palme the victim of a destabilisation attempt in the mid-70’s like fellow Socialist Willi Brandt? Is there a connection to the most plausible of Paline murder theories – action by a right-wing faction within the Swedish intelligence service, SAPO? In 1973 three journalists alleged the existence of such a group with the […]

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The view from the bridge. JFK. Waco. Oklahoma. Timor. Moral Rearmament Movement

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

The big switch Keeping track of the developments in the JFK assassination is something like a full-time job and I don’t have the time. Plodding along years behind the buffs, I came across Walt Brown’s Treachery in Dallas (Carroll and Graf, New York, 1995), an interesting book, dotted with new (to me) bits and pieces. … Read more

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Blood revenge: the aftermath of the assassination of Airey Neave

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

“The anomaly of going to war in your own country was not lost on Harry.” (Harry’s Game, Gerald Seymour, Fontana, London 1975) Airey Neave was killed in March 1979 by a bomb planted beneath his car just outside the Houses of Parliament. The then little known Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) soon claimed responsibility. The … Read more

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