Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] ran a story about the late Cedric Belfrage, claiming he was a Soviet spy, ‘the sixth man’. Christopher Andrew was among those prominently quoted supporting this the sis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of this, pointing out that Belfrage has been leaking material to the Soviets on instruction from BSC (British […]
Lobster Issue 88 (Winter 2024)
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[PDF file]: […] 1688-1914 (London: Longman, 1993), pp. 306-15. 3 1 As far as the first of these is concerned, the best way to approach it is through the analy sis developed by two historians, Ronald Robinson and Jack Gallagher, in a famous article called ‘The Imperialism of Free Trade’. This appeared in 1953 in the distinguished […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] Conservative Party donors (perhaps that should now be ‘investors’). I presume that the author is the David Rose who confessed a while back to having been an SIS asset.26 Encounter and the CIA A seminar on ‘Encounter, the CIA, the IRD and the relationship of British intellectuals with the Establishment’ was held in London […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] Byrne Senior’, which confirms some of the general allegations in the putative CIA document. Most controversially that document claims that Stephan Kock, using named former SAS and SIS personnel, murdered four people, including Gerald Bull and the journalist Jonathan Moyle. The unredacted CIA document was first referred to in the English language Turkish newspaper […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] for editorial and proof-reading help with Lobster *new* All Trussed up On the day that Prime Minister Truss made her announcement about dealing with the energy cri sis here, The Times (8 September) briefly mentioned (on p. 39) that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was off to the City to discuss ‘Big Bang 2’ […]
[PDF file]: […] the CIA in support of the war in Vietnam. I didn’t think he had enough evidence and declined to publish it. Nonetheless it is an interesting the sis and you can see it yourself: Covert Action has run it.2 *new* NewsGuard I hadn’t come across NewsGuard before Consortium News announced that the organisation was […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] testimony to the resistance of the CIA’s intelligence analysts. In the UK the estimates from the two main agencies, the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) and MI6 (or SIS) are fed into the Joint Intelligence Committee which produces the final version. That, at least, is the theory. In practice, in this instance, the cautious, heavily […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] Butler, while the Prime Minister kept a file on Samuel Hoare, receiving reports on his movements in Spain from an agent with the code-name of Harlequin.6 Both SIS and the Foreign Office were aware of Hoare’s contacts with the well-connected Liechtensteinian and pro-German go-between Max von Hohenlohe (who was in fact an SS member).7 […]