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 […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] 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. […]

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. […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] body does have to be taken seriously, even though there is a dearth of decent information on its activities. The largest piece on the group, ‘The Private Spy Agency’ by Elton Manzione (National Reporter, Summer 1985) contains one whopper of a mistake and a number of highly dubious assertions which don’t give grounds for […]

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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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