Kitson, Kincora and counter-insurgency in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] There is little, if anything, in the case studies which follow Lawrence’s piece that can’t be found in abundance in the domestic history of the US. The agent provocateur has been a routine tool of US capital for at least half a century. (Don’t I remember Dashiel Hammet being one for the Pinkertons before […]

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Miscellaneous: Manning Clark. L. Ron Hubbard Jnr.

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] Fun and games Down Under where a great brouhaha developed over allegations that Australia’s most famous – and left-wing historian, the late Manning Clark, was a Soviet agent. It started when the Australian poet Sid Murray reported that 26 years before he had seen Clark at a dinner wearing the Order of Lenin, one […]

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

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] among whom were Merlino and Serpieri, and representatives of the Greek regime, including Rauti’s friend Konstantin Plevris, leader of the Nazified ‘4th of August’ movement and an agent of the KYP.(155) Since Plevris was himself the architect of the Greek ‘strategy of tension’, most researchers have supposed that he advised the visiting rightists on […]

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Five at Eye

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] and Wilson regimes.” Two months later appeared the Spectator article. * * * Private Eye never went as far as naming Sternberg or Plummer as a KGB agent. The libel laws would have prevented any such smear. But following Sternberg’s death in 1978, Richard Deacon (Donald McCormick) had no such qualms in his book […]

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Willy Brandt: the “Good German”

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] Director General Michael Hanley first quarrelled with Wilson over the case of Judith Hart, Minister of Overseas Development and that “It seems to have been a foreign agent who sparked the row.’ The agent was Gunter Guillaume, special assistant to the West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. On 24 April 1974 Guillaume was arrested as […]

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Spooks

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] two murders that the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) were directly responsible for. They are the “Bulgarian Umbrella” murder of Georgi Markov in 1978 (a British double agent tricked the Bulgarians into murdering him) and the murder of the newspaper owner Robert Maxwell in 1991. Both murders are related to the failed KGB coup […]

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Foreign Agent 4221: The Lockerbie Cover-up

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

William C. Chasey ProMotion Publishing, 3368 F Governor Drive, Suite 144, San Diego, CA 92122, $19.95. ISBN 1-887314-01-6 Chasey was the foreign agent 4221, that is a lobbyist registered with the US Department of Justice, who took a PR contract from the government of Libya to try and help normalise relations with the U.S. […]

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Public Servant, Secret Agent: The Elusive Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

Paul Routledge London: Fourth Estate, 2002, £16.99 In Lobster 39 (p. 23) I reported the snippet of information from a recent biography of James Callaghan that Mrs Thatcher, while leader of the Opposition, in 1977 had twice gone to to see Robert Armstrong, then Home Office liaison with MI5, to put the beliefs of her … Read more

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Afterword: the search for “Maurice Bishop”

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] was not in Mexico City on October 10th. The man responsible for CIA surveillance operations in Mexico City was George F. Munroe, a fervent right-winger and ex-FBI agent. He was responsible for the wiring of the Soviet Embassy and Cuban Consulate. According to HSCA information there were also human contacts with two spies within […]

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The influence of intelligence services on the British left

Lobster Issue

[…] CPGB. The same thing was happening in the United States. The man who collected the dollars from the Soviets for the American Communist Party was an FBI agent. Like MI5, the FBI let the funding continue. In effect MI5 and the FBI ran the American and British communist parties as honeytraps for their labour […]

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