After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] Pederson, David Kelly’s mysterious friend, born Mai al-Sadat in Kuwait, who introduced Kelly to the Baha’i faith, a woman both of whose husbands have said is a spy. Pederson shared addresses in the US with Kelly: despite being officially listed only as a US Army master sergeant, she has been able to retain the […]

The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11

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By Peter Dale Scott (18,734 words) 10/29/05 See also A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11 (I wish to acknowledge the invaluable assistance in the preparation of this essay from N, a Russian who for the time being prefers to remain anonymous.)   Tajik authorities have claimed repeatedly that neither the US nor NATO exerts any … Read more

Great Northern? Was the author of Swallows and Amazons a Soviet secret agent?

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] squeeze an early reply into his next column in the Guardian: ‘The professor’s caricature of this most principled, independent and forthright of journalists as just another suborned spy is ridiculous.’ Andrew’s attack on Ransome united two experts on Ransome’s days in Russia, who had previously been arguing about the meaning of Russian documents concerning […]

Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British anti-semitism 1939/1940

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

[…] the Phoney War remains a taboo subject in many respects – even at the level of popular fiction. Len Deighton made his name with the Harry Palmer spy thrillers, three of which, The Ipcress File (1962), Funeral in Berlin (1964) and Billion Dollar Brain (1965), were immediately filmed. The other book in the series, […]

The Clash of the Icons

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] the CIA station chief on matters of political importance. Or so they say. If the rumors are true, Ellsberg was not just a superb shadow warrior and spy; his CIA and associated Special Forces comrades also knew him as a swashbuckling swordsman who romanced many women, including the exquisite Germaine, one quarter French and […]

Brothers

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

Brothers: The hidden history of the Kennedy years David Talbot London: Simon and Schuster, 2007, h/b, £20   Another Kennedy book? Yes, but a good one. Talbot may not have anything new of substance to tell us about the assassination per se but has much new material about events before and after it. Talbot’s JFK … Read more

Wallace Clippings planted on Chapman Pincher

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] up the gun and injure or even kill the gunman. Examine Explosives experts who helped to compile the memo report, according to their “contact” – presumably a spy in the Government service – hundreds of these doctored rounds are already on their way to Northern Ireland. They warn I.R.A. commanders to examine all rounds […]

Paranoia is what the other guy has

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] evidenced by its taste for conspiracy theories. While she recognises that conspiracies do happen, and cites the Catilinarian 2 and Cato Street conspiracies along with the Cambridge spy ring and Watergate as evidence of her breadth of historical vision, she is in no doubt that ‘…historical conspiracies are rare. The vast majority of apparently […]

Philby naming names

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] resident is British First Secretary Spierce (sic), and in Aden where the BIS resident is the British Embassy First Secretary Brekhony (sic) who exchanged the known English spy K. Harden. Question Could you say a few words concerning the so-called psychological operations of BIS in the Near East? K.P. Such operations have poisoned the […]

Letter from America: CIA set for Pentagon buyout?

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] Coleman the Pentagon has never forgiven President Truman for turning OSS into a supposedly civilian entity, and is well on the way to running the entire US spy apparat. I don’t really believe this strict military-civilian dichotomy. CIA has long been full of military spooks – General Charles P. Cabell and Admiral Stansfield Turner, […]

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