The final testimony of George Kennedy Young

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

The final testimony of George Kennedy Young Introduction When this was published we believed that it had been written by a close friend of his. Subsequently we learned that it had been written by Young himself. As far as we were able to judge, it is accurate. But this is by no means the whole … Read more

Vindication is a dish still edible when cold

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] proved: That, while I was working for South African Intelligence in London in 1969 (I was officially deported from South Africa in 1966 so that I could spy for BOSS in Britain) the head of BOSS, H. J. van den Bergh, assigned me to infiltrate an extremely furtive underground political group based in South […]

Lockerbie, the octopus and the Maltese double cross

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] of the CIA. It appears that one of its main roles is to monitor the clandestine activity of other US government agencies. Coleman’s DIA job was to spy on the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which operated out of a base in Cyprus. Coleman alleges that the DEA is supervising, and the DIA is manipulating, […]

Pipe Dreams: the CIA, Drugs, and the Media

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] congressional commission in Costa Rica says something, doesn’t mean it’s true.'(18) (Before he joined the Post in the 1960s, Pincus traveled abroad on a CIA subsidy to spy on student leaders from other countries.(19) Unsurprisingly, Pincus was out in front of the pack of reporters that attacked the recent Mercury News story.) When the […]

Hitler’s Traitor: Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] view. His book is basically a study of the ‘Red Orchestra’, an area already covered in detail. The author shows that this was, indeed, a very big spy ring. (The CIA were still investigating its activities well into the 1970s, believing that portions of it had survived various Gestapo crack-downs and had gone on […]

Northern Ireland redux

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] it is impossible to tell whether the two women are 20 or 50, never mind whether they were attractive or not. Livingstone states in his column: ‘The spy master Peter Wright, of Spycatcher fame, makes no mention in his book of the extensive work he undertook in Ireland, yet he was the central figure […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

Sources Open Eye 2 did finally appear, well worth the wait, containing a splendidly eclectic mixture of articles, at least two of which will be of lasting importance. The first is a long account by Phil Chamberlain of the assault on Mr and Mrs Anthony Verney by what are now being called frequency weapons, i.e. … Read more

Brief Notes on the Political Importance of Secret Societies (Part 2)

Lobster Issue 6 (1984)

[…] respectively, to James Angleton, then a young veteran of OSS (who would soon take charge of the Vatican desk at the CIA), and Reinhard Gehlen, the Nazi spy who oversaw the post-war reconstruction of German intelligence under CIA auspices. (32) The Angleton connection to SMOM is suggestive in view of his opposition to the […]

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

Web Update

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

Here are a few more web sites that may be of interest. Thanks for contributions to David Guyatt, Terry Hanstock, Daniel Brandt, Chris Atton and Tony Hollick. Further contributions and comments are welcome: my e-mail is Politics and government USA DoE Office of Human Radiation Experiments http://www.ohre.doe.gov/ ‘OHRE, established in March 1994, leads the … Read more

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