Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
[…] West. It is worth going into some detail on this area as it provides clues to Novotny’s true position.(13) In April 1961 the West’s most important Soviet spy, Oleg Penkovsky, arrived in London on a trade mission, staying until May 6th. The material he gave to MI6 and CIA representatives was to prove vital […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] who shot the President. In Alias Oswald (Manchester, Maine; GKG partners, 1985) Robert Cutler and W. R. Morris argued that the second ‘Oswald’, was not a Soviet spy but a US spy. In their analysis the switch from one ‘Oswald’ to the other took place in 1958 while Oswald was serving in the Marine […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
Free Ride Department Meanwhile the Rand Corporation (that liberal think tank in Santa Monica which helps decide which Russian cities should be atom-bombed) has declared that the federal government must continue to support an obscure military satellite system known as Global Positioning Network. Much beloved by high-tech hikers and rental car enthusiasts, the GPS supposedly … Read more
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
Operation Paget, the investigation by the team led by Sir John Stevens into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, briefly tried to investigate a collision between a white Fiat Uno and Princess Diana’s BMW. The head-on collision happened on 22 March 1996, on Cromwell Road, Kensington, when a casino employee lost control of a … Read more
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] to one of their meetings after reading a book on U.S. involvement in Vietnam and walking out of my fraternity. They must have thought I was a spy, with my short hair and button-down clothes, but it didn’t matter because at the time SDS accepted everyone and I was wearing a strong suit of […]
Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££
[…] the stories issuing from the Vatican), but also, on pp 236-7 he gives an account of a memo -” a series of notes from the Italian government’s spy in the Secretariat of State (in the Vatican)”. This memo reports that Wojtyla’s candidacy was “pushed especially by the West Germans, the English-speaking North Americans and […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] starvation, execution, slavery…..how can the world shy away from one of the deadliest wars yet?’ The Sunday Herald, 30 November 2003. 13 Jefferson Morley , ‘The Good spy: how the quashing of an honest investigator led to 40 years of JFK conspiracy theories’, Washington Monthly, 35 (12) (December 2003), pp. 40-59. On-line at The […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] between MI5 and MI6…..MI5 used RUC Special Branch to circulate stories about Oldfield going to the town of Comber to pick up young men…(and) that the ageing spy chief was involved in the abuse of young boys from the Kincora boys’ home in East Belfast’. (p. 192) (This story, I seem to remember, was […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] long to get their revenge. The following month they broke the story that a cipher clerk in the French diplomatic service, Maurice Abrivard, had been a KGB spy for ten years up to his death in 1984, delivering diplomatic codes and important secrets about the installation of US Pershing missiles in Europe to the […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
MI6 persuaded Clare Short, the Secretary of State for International Development, to task them to give her early warning about coups in Africa. (Independent 23 July 2000) MI6 now have a license to roam throughout Africa. The spooks must love having Labour in office, terrified to oppose anything they ask for. Hitherto secret Whitehall committee … Read more