The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the ‘Gladio’ networks

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] who were sequestrated by the Americans under the umbrella of the now infamous Operation Paperclip. Both Klaus Barbie (the infamous ‘Butcher of Lyon’) and Reinhard Gehlen (Hitler’s spy chief) were integral to the founding of several ‘Gladio’ networks through their connections to other ex-Nazis, some of whom were, like Barbie and Gehlen themselves, war […]

Undercover killers at the BBC

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] cash and 3 clothes to his son. Guest-More lived in Malta with a genuine British passport, cloned in the name of a real British citizen, a classic spy trick. Jimmy Raven was jailed at Chester Crown Court for at least 24 years for the murder of Brian Waters, 44. The cannabis grower had been […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] during the late 1980s and early 1990s, becoming an inside informer on the violent far-right group for Searchlight magazine and Special Branch.38 A case of the burned spy becoming a handler. The Mormon Church and U.S. Intelligence agencies. The current American government has made much of their successes in obtaining the release of U.S. […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] to Latin America in ‘How Allen Dulles and the SS Preserved Each Other’ in Covert Action Information Bulletin No 25 . 79 E. H. Cookridge, Gehlen: the Spy of the Century (New York: Random House, 1971) pp. 287-288 80 Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty (New York: Holt, Rinehart and […]

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[…] then the impunity of it. I realised that the UK has almost no laws about political corruption. I’d research all this material and think, “What?! Another Russian spy donating to the Tories?” or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] 1961, though, MacMillan seemed in serious disarray, badly behind in the polls and widely mocked by many of the UK intelligentsia. There is also evidence that the spy scandals of 1962-1963 caused many in the US to finally lose patience with their British allies.2 9 Coupled with the emergence of Wilson as the next […]

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