From the archives: Kim Besly, 1926-1996

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the base, after the first Cruise missiles began to arrive in November 1983. The heavy police and military presence went away. They learnt of BISS (Base Installation Security System)2 and the general feeling was ‘they must be using something else’. Besly wrote: ‘A number of women are suffering a range of symptoms which are […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] organization, no one will recognize it, no one will give it status at the , no one will let it put forth a resolution at the U.N. Security Council.31 A third Israeli official, Brigadier General Yitzhak Segev – who, during part of the 1980s, was the Israeli military governor of the Gaza Strip – […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Niall Ó Dochartaigh, concludes: ‘ …the killings were the outcome of a calculated confrontation carried out in the face of strong opposition from some elements within the security forces. At the heart of these events is a clearly planned confrontational initiative devised by one of the most senior military commanders in Northern Ireland. At […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] of which have appeared in English. But in the end he doesn’t tell us who shot Sweden’s Prime Minister in 1986 as he left a cinema, without security: no-one knows. He offers us his best guess: that it was the result of a huge arms contract between the Swedish firm Bofors and the Indian […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] organization, no one will recognize it, no one will give it status at the , no one will let it put forth a resolution at the U.N. Security Council.30 A third Israeli official, Brigadier General Yitzhak Segev – who, during part of the 1980s, was the Israeli military governor of the Gaza Strip – […]

Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy by Tim Milne

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] exposed him. In his biography of Philby, Phillip Knightley reports that the failure of Operation Valuable stemmed from the penetration of Albanian émigré organizations by the Albanian security service, ‘and more than one of these penetration agents managed to be selected for the CIA-SIS operation’.26 Some years after this, in 2013, Knightley told me: […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] US Senate ruled such funding illegal. Israel supplied the weapons and Reagan’s Central American friends got the dosh. Kimche, working with his old friend and key Reagan security adviser Michael Ledeen, was the brains behind the scheme, leaving former US marine Colonel Oliver North as the fall guy when the whole covert operation was […]

Gaza 2009: Revisiting the Goldstone Report

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Conflict (New York: Nation Books, 2011). 2 Now based at the Institute for International Criminal Investigations at the Hague. 1 3 history of South Africa’s Apartheid-era government security forces’, even ‘in the face of death threats’. As for the Report, Tutu praises it as ‘an historic attempt at seeking and then speaking the truth’, […]

Phil Shenon – a cruel and shocking twist

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] there. On the day of the assassination, Elena Garro de Paz, the primary source of the story, was whisked away to the Hotel Vermont by a Mexican security officer Manuel Calvillo, who kept her incommunicado for a week ‘for her own protection’. In contrast, Sylvia Duran was twice arrested and violently interrogated by Mexican […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Russell wrote about his dealings with Canada’s CSIS in Lobster 65: ‘Canada’s spy agency gone rogue: Prime Minister Harper couldn’t care less’ at . CSIS is Canada’s Security and Intelligence Service. 4 1 affidavit, including detailed testimony on the Zersetzen crimes and their cover up. This sworn testimony also includes considerable 3rd part corroboration […]

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