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... October 1989 Last| Contents| Next Issue 18 Gordon Winter: Inside BOSS and After Introduction Intelligence officers who blow the whistle get attacked by their erstwhile employers. Agee, Stockwell, Marchetti,Wallace, Holroyd, Jock Kane, Cathy Massiter- they all have variously suffered for their decision to go public. Their allegations 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 after a number of libel suits ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 405 - 01 Oct 1989 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue18/lob18-05.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 48) Winter 2004 Last| Contents| Next Issue 48 Vindication is a dish still edible when cold 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 most important political memoirs. Even if elements of the book were included to disinform, as some believe, Inside BOSS still contains an invaluable piece of the covert history of Britain in the sixties ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 318 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-32.htm
... were brilliant speakers with a devastating repertoire of put-downs for hecklers. All of which is a preamble for my recent discovery that not only is the SPGB still going, 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 left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team our man is the captain or vice-captain, and if not, he is the referee and can send any man off the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 50 - 01 Dec 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue28/lob28-08.htm
... of Collins Radio, who had a security clearance, was parked in the car park where Oswald allegedly dropped a jacket shortly after the murder of Officer Tippit. (This is in a volume of the House Select Committee on Assassinations but I don't have the reference at hand. If someone can supply it I would be grateful). Inside BOSS, South Africa's Secret Police Gordon Winter (Penguin, London 1981) "BOSS assigned me to monitor the activities of Richard Gibson (exposed in 1969 as a CIA agent), who was a talented journalist then representing Negro Press International and 'Tuesday' magazine. I discovered that Mr Gibson, born in California in 1931, was an ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 38 - 01 Feb 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue07/lob07-02.htm
... gave to their Soviet/Czech connections were Labour Party or parliamentary documents which were of no Page 137 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 consequence and not secret.1 And what of the events of 1974-76, the so-called 'Wilson plots'?* The so-called private armies episode of 1974 and 1975 gets only a paragraph on George Young's Unison.* The BOSS operations against Peter Hain and Jeremy Thorpe are dismissed, as is Gordon Winter. Andrew describes him, on somebody else's say-so, as unreliable, and quotes an MI5 assessment that the operation to get the Norman Scott-Jeremy Thorpe story into the media was a 'private initiative' (!) by Winter.* Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd get ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 37 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-134.pdf
6. Sources [Lobster #37 (Summer 1999)]
... . It isn't interesting to be told so-and-so in the State Department is in the CFR: of course he or she is in the CFR; everybody is. Still, some very useful primary data here beneath the rhetoric and theories. There is a Trilateral site at http://trilateral.org/annmtgs/trialog/triglist.htm Meet the new boss... same as the old boss One of Lobster's regular contributors of recent years had been having terrible trouble, first with his answering machine and then with his phone. He rang BT and a friendly BT engineer, after doing a recce of his line, told him he was being tapped. For doing what? Writing for ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 32 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-25.htm
7. Sources [Lobster #33 (Summer 1997)]
... from the 1991 deposition of Richard Brenneke, a pilot who claims to have flown missions for the Contras (which has not been seriously challenged) and to have been involved in the so-called 'October Surprise' events (which has). The part of the deposition reproduced by PFP alleges, as the subhead has it, 'Richard Brenneke puts mob boss John Gotti and CIA boss Donald Gregg in the middle of contra drug operations at Mena Airport.' The March/April issue contains another important piece by Daniel Brandt, whose essay on the CIA-drugs story is reproduced above, documenting the American feminist Gloria Steinhem's early (1958) activities on behalf of the CIA in the great youth/ ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 31 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-19.htm
... Contents Lobster 58 Whose Prospect? Solomon Hughes Prospect magazine have confirmed a series of connections to the British secret state, including dinner meetings, seminars and taking on the son of MI6 boss John Scarlett as an intern. The links with the security services are a potential embarrassment for the magazine, which has been compared to Encounter, a centre left journal which suffered a crisis in 1967 because of too close relations with the CIA.1 There is no suggestion here that Prospect has received money from the security services like Encounter, but Prospect editor David Goodhart accepted he met with secret state officials a number of times. John Scarlett Junior, son of MI6 boss John Scarlett, worked as ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 27 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-085.pdf
... companies created by MI6 to put out material created by IRD. These are essentially expansions of previous work by Fletcher- see, e.g. his piece in the Guardian 18th December 1981- and are based on a large study commissioned by UNESCO. This latter fact may give some hint of UNESCO's current unpopularity with the UK and US governments. BOSS in Britain James Barber, African Affairs, July 1983 A valuable compilation of the various reports and incidents involving BOSS (South Africa's Bureau of State Research) going as far back as 1967. Drawn from existing sources, and written as a by-product of the author's study of the UK-South African relationship. Last| Contents| Next ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 27 - 01 Apr 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue04/lob04-11.htm
... 1986 Last| Contents| Next Issue 11 Wilson, MI5 and the Rise of Thatcher Covert Operations in British Politics 1974-1978 Bibliography Agee-Hosenball Defence Committee, Scrap the Act, London, no date but probably 1977 Andrews,Christopher, Secret Service, London 1985 August, Frantisek and Rees, David Red Star Over Prague, London 1984 Barber, James BOSS in Britain in African Affairs July 1983 Barzilay, David The British Army in Ulster (3 vols), Belfast 1973 Beichmann, Arnold Hugger Mugger in Old Queen Street in Journal of Contemporary History 1978 Bell, Geoffrey The Protestants of Ulster, London 1976 Benton, Kenneth A Single Monstrous Act, London 1976 Bew, Paul and Patterson, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 27 - 01 Apr 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue11/lob11-21.htm
