Sources: Spectre. CAQ, etc

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] of campaigns of official harassment; and a long piece by David Pegg which discusses a little known but very interesting book by Karl Marx, Herr Vogt: A Spy in the Workers’ Movement, which ought to raise an eyebrow or two out there on the British Left. Notes from the Borderland is £2.50 per issue […]

Persian Drugs: Oliver North, the DEA and Covert Operations in the Mideast

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] July 1989 (syndicated column) Memo from Acting Assistant Commissioner, Office of Enforcement, to Commissioner of Customs, 30 October 1985. Mark Perry, The Secret Life of an American Spy’, Regardie’s, February 1989 Testimony of Ambassador Oakley, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and Committee on Judiciary, hearings, International Terrorism, Insurgency and Drug Trafficking, May 13-15 1985, […]

Secrets from Germany

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

GEHEIM (“SECRET”) is West Germany’s representative in the international stable of state research publications. Geheim has appeared three or four times a year since 1983, and its editors are experienced state research journalists in the Federal Republic – Rudolf Gossner, author (with Geheim contributor Uwe Herzog) of an exhaustive work on the undercover activities of … Read more

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 […]

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 […]

Spooks

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Below is a list of spooks, both dead and alive, … Read more

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

Errors, corrections and updates

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] and told me that his divisional committee of the party had once devoted a whole meeting to discussing whether Harry Newton was or was not a police spy. The general view was, apparently, that he was so obviously one, that he couldn’t be one in fact.’ From Eric Preston: Eric Preston, mentioned in Donald […]

Apartheid’s friends

Book cover
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

Apartheid’s friends: The rise and fall of South Africa’s secret service James Sanders London: John Murray, 2006, £11.99, p/b   This is a tremendously impressive piece of work; and it’s big: 395 pages of text, another 100 pages of notes and sources and a decent index. I imagine that most of it will be new … Read more

US involvement in the Fiji coup d’etat

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

US involvement in the Fiji coup d’etat This article presents an analysis of United States involvement in the coup in Fiji. The authors support the demands made in Washington by deposed Fijian Prime Minister, Dr Bavadra, for a Congressional investigation of American involvement. Published by Wellington Confidential, PO. Box 9034, Wellington, New Zealand The one-month-old … Read more

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