Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)
[…] plays amateur psychoanalyst at Roberts’ expense. It reminds me of the ‘skeptics’ who attack Lee Harvey Oswald as a psychopathological loner and ignore his connections to the spy world. As for Roberts alternating between ‘asking Nader for help and accusing him of being part of the Mafia’, that dynamic replayed among American voters in […]
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 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
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] York Sun, 19 March 2008. This was discussed by Mary Dejevsky in The Independent on 2 May 2008, ‘The Litvinenko files: Was he really murdered?’ ‘Why a spy was killed’, The Guardian, 26 January 2008. Their Website is Nick McDermott, ‘Big Brother tapping our phones and e-mails 1,000 times a day’, The Daily Mail, […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)
[…] the “morale” of the armed forces.’ On-line free sources There are two wonderful free sources of news stories on geopolitics, intelligence etc. There is Mario Profaca’s ‘ Spy News’ which sends out daily bulletins of up to 25 news stories from around the world. This can be accessed from the Profaca’s Website, which is […]