Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] their alliance with the Saudis and the Americans. The British had tried to derail the Sunday Times investigation and covered everything up, to avoid yet another Cambridge spy scandal. And the CIA still pretended it knew nothing about it.4 Stanley Bonnett, born in London a few months after Holden, had volunteered for the Royal […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] a rapport with Frank Olson during a number of subsequent visits Frank Olson made to Britain. Dr. Sargant remarked that ‘he was just like any other CIA spy, using our secret airfields to come and go.’ Sargant told Thomas he could publish what he was saying, but only after his death. He went on […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] 75.The Monday Club held a conference on “subversion” in 1970. Speakers included Charles Lyon, ex-FBI, Sir Robert Thompson, Ian Greig, Harold Soref and G. K. Young. (Counter spy November 1981) An interesting line-up. Lyons was “London contact for the Maheu agency” – the Robert Maheu Agency which worked for Howard Hughes. (Hougan, 1979, p. […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] of 1156 mph, a range of 2000 miles, weighs 13.8 tons and costs $102m each. 9 See The Sunday Times 13 April 2014, ‘Keep it quiet: RAF spy planes fail safety rules’ at . Ironically one of the reasons given for dumping the Nimrod programme in 2010 was that the aircraft wasn’t safe. The […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] have omitted information known to them which conflicts with their overall presentation of the so-called facts. I also suspect that they have edited commentary so that “The Spy” narrative can be maintained throughout. Ms Stonehouse does indeed show that this is the case. However, as she reports on her site: ‘Ofcom said they couldn’t […]

Secrecy in Britain

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] them they should be returned to the National Archives. This leads to some peculiar situations. A contact of mine was researching a book on a particular Soviet spy. He found an interesting document written by said spy in a file at the National Archives. It was 12 pages – he copied 6 pages and […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Cazalet, Victor Cazalet: A Portrait (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976), written by Robert Rhodes James MP, but confirmed by Cazalet’s private papers. 36 Quoted in Richard Bassett, Hitler’s Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery (London: Phoenix, 2005) pp. 213 and 218-219. 37 Prince Paul was educated at Oxford, where he was a member of the […]

Misc reviews

Lobster Issue

[…] in the foreword, that in 1965 he was asked by a CIA officer if he would ‘volunteer’ to kill Fitzer. The CIA officer said Pitzer was a spy, a traitor. Marvin declined – but only because the CIA officer wanted it done in the US: Marvin wouldn’t kill at home, only overseas. (To my […]

Historical Notes on British complicity in the Gaza genocide

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] reveal massive increase in UK arms exports to Israel as Government defends F-35 exemption in Court’, 15 May 2025, . 17 Iain Overton, ‘Britain sent over 500 spy flights to Gaza’, Declassified UK, 27 March 2025, . 18 Iain Overton, ‘US flew spy flights for UK months before UK admitted it’, Declassified UK, 12 […]

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