Gordon Winter: Inside BOSS and After

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] and their characters are rubbished; operations are mounted to discredit them and disrupt their lives – and worse. Gordon Winter is an Englishman who was recruited by BOSS. His 1981 book Inside BOSS, was the first (and only) inside account of South Africa’s intelligence agency. The book was not reprinted after its first edition […]

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Vindication is a dish still edible when cold

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

Gordon Winter In Lobster 18, dated October 1989, under the headline: ‘Inside BOSS and After‘, you wrote the following: ‘Gordon Winter is an Englishman who was recruited by BOSS. His 1981 book Inside BOSS, was the first (and only) inside account of South Africa’s intelligence agency. We still think this is one of the […]

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Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] Paul Halloran arrangements for meeting Owen Oyston in London in July. He also received a telephone call from detective Chris More who had been shadowing model agency boss Peter Martin and reported that Martin was ‘said to be involved forming companies for Oyston.’ 23 June Murrin and Hounam of The Sunday Times met Melanie […]

Right-wing Terrorists and the Extraparliamentary Left in Post-World War 2 Europe: Collusion or Manipulation?

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] (94), the Spanish Direccion General de Seguridad (DGS), the Greek Kentrike Yperesia Plirophorion (KYP or Central Intelligence Service), and the South African Bureau of State Security ( BOSS) (95): a unit that specialized in recruiting and training mercenaries in the arcane arts of ‘unconventional’ warfare; a strategic centre for coordinating ‘subversion and intoxication operations’ […]

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Jonestown. The secret life of Jim Jones: a parapolitical fugue

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] did until the firm went bankrupt, under scandalous circumstances, in 1967. Though this occurred more than ten years before Jonestown, Invesco’s former assistant manager – Jim Jones’s boss – was still in Rio at the time of the massacre. An American who had come to Brazil in the late 1940s, and stayed, he was […]

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‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

‘You don’t investigate people for why they think but for what they do.’ – former Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti (1) Introduction If nothing else, the Iran-Contra scandal temporarily illuminated the extent to which ostensibly private organizations have been helping secretive elements within the American government — in this case the core of the executive branch’s … Read more

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] in the August 1994 edition of their magazine, Socialist Standard, on page 126, we find this paragraph. ‘Feeling paranoid? Not as much as they are. According to BOSS agent, Robin Ramsay (In an interview cut from a 1981 Panorama programme, but printed verbatim elsewhere), British intelligence has a saying that if there is a […]

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Heritage of Stone; JFK and JFK

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] current favourite speculative theory which accommodates the U.S. state involves the so-called apertura a sinistra or opening to the left in Italy. Nearly ten years ago former BOSS agent Gordon Winter replied to a letter from Steve Dorril about BOSS’s view of the assassination with the answer that BOSS files had attributed it to […]

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Liddle and Lobbygate: reflections on a Downing Street drama

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] who you want to meet and Derek and I will make the call for you.’ Newspaper reports told us that immediately after the story broke, Draper’s former boss, Mandelson, saw his current boss, Sir Ian Wrigglesworth, (who happens to be Mandelson’s next-door neighbour in West London) and within a day Draper had lost his […]

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Steady as she goes: Labour and the spooks

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] but what is there worth saying that isn’t blindingly and depressingly obvious and predictable? Jack Straw, who took over as Home Secretary, and thus formally as the boss of MI5, is determined to sedate any sleeping dogs he comes across. When former MI5 officer, David Shayler, turned up bearing bad news about MI5, Straw […]

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