French vendetta: from Rainbow Warrior to the Iranian hostages deal

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 […]

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Spook-wise: MI6 and Clare Short

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

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Hilda Murrell: a death in the private sector

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] During my membership with the IPI I also had contact with numerous private investigators who also acted for the government, carrying out surveillance, investigations etc. for official spy masters. At one stage I was a Director sitting on the board of governors, dealing with the day to day affairs at the Institute. During this […]

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The Campus Connection: Military Research on Campus

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

Rob Evans, Nicola Butler, Eddie Goncalves Student CND, London 1991, £3.00 The contents list is reproduced here. This is not my field but Rob Evans of the Campaign Against Military Research on Campus (CAMROC) now has quite a track record in this area. This is available at £3.00 from Student CND, 162 Holloway Road, London … Read more

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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 […]

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Re:

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 […]

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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 […]

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Iraq

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

Since issue 45, last June, there has been so much information produced on the events preceding the assault on Iraq it is impossible to keep track of it all. Here is my selection. For the powers-that-be, the war has been traumatic, not least because their various cover stories and deceptions have been exposed so rapidly, … Read more

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The CIA: A history of torture

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] also John Marks, The Search For The Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control (New York 1988). See John McGuffin, The Guineapigs (London 1974) Peter Grose, Gentlemen Spy: The Life and Times of Allen Dulles (Amherst 1994) p. 393. McCoy, A Question of Torture, (see note 5) pp. 28, 29, 33, 44-45, 49. (On […]

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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 […]

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