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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] . 49 Christopher Ketcham wrote about this in 2010 in his essay at . which was redacted by MI5 prior to publication, has been published in Counter Spy by Simon Tomlin.5 0 In that section Machon reports that a source in MI5 she calls Swallow Tail told her and her then partner David Shayler […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to the energy-security industry, they may also have a 18 Caryle Murphy, ‘Wikileaks Reveals Saudi Efforts to Threaten Iran’, 29 November 2010. 19 Kim Zetter, ‘NOKIA Seimens Spy Tools Aid Police Torture in Bahrain’, Wired: Threat Level, 23 August 2011; and Spencer Andrai’s Danger Room: ‘New US Commando Team Operating near Iran’, Wired, 19 […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] late 70s she still read voraciously about America’s foreign and domestic policies, and regularly entertained former CIA counter-intelligence chief James Angleton, for what the two called ‘ Spy chat’.1 A dedicated anti-communist and dyed-in-the-wool Republican, she had served as a Representative for Connecticut between 1943 and 1947, becoming acquainted with the up-and-coming Lyndon Johnson […]

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