The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

Do they talk like this? At < www.lewrockwell.com/cummings/cummings29.html > there is a very interesting piece by Richard Cummings about the CIA and publishing; agents and operations are named. At the top of the article is this quote. ‘We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications […]

George Korkala’s address book

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

George Gregory Korkala was the ‘soldier’ in the activities of ‘lieutenant’ Frank Terpil and ‘leader’ Edwin Wilson. Wilson and Terpil are both ex- CIA, though when their relationships with the ‘company’ ended is not known. Korkala was arrested in February 1982 at a trade fair on security devices in Madrid. Spanish police carried out […]

Feedback

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] Clancy novel: technically feasible, but not necessarily plausible. The Black Dog mission is another matter. In this elaborate tale a spe cially-modified S-3A Viking, flown by the CIA and carrying both chemical and biological weapons crashes in Iraq. A daring recovery operation is then carried out by an ultra-secret special operations team. The premise […]

In camera injustice

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] amateur an operation – and he listed 14 points which indicated it was unlikely I had any involvement with the KGB. Bill Colby (former Director of the CIA) and ex-CIA officer Philip Agee also agreed it would not be possible to say that the tradecraft in my case was exclusive to the KGB. The […]

Britain in the 90s: Up against the state

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] in which he stated: ‘Previously, I have considered going to the State Department and having them ask the British government to intervene. I have learned that the CIA has asked the British intelligence and the Police to assist in resolving problems with Victorian.’ US military intelligence It is not only John Alexander and his […]

The Cecil King coup plot

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] there would have been no Bloody Sunday. As I’ve explained elsewhere, the genesis of the Provisional IRA lies in the attempts by Fianna Fail (and possibly the CIA) to create right-wing death squads to neutralise the then Official IRA leadership.(19) However, the PIRA were transformed into a significant force by an inept state repression […]

Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] of Heroin In South East Asia (US 1973) which documented US involvement in the opium traffic of the Golden Triangle and got McCoy into trouble with the CIA. But this volume is exactly what its title suggests, and is unlikely to be of too much interest to anyone with out a specialised interest in, […]

The rise and fall of the Bulgarian Connection

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Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] plan to use British Nazis to bomb the Notting Hill Carnival – fortunately thwarted). Herman and Brodhead argue that there is no hard evidence to suggest the CIA led or even allowed the plot against the Pope. The KGB certainly look less guilty than the CIA. But the CIA played a crucial role in […]

Who’s afraid of the KGB

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] July 1984) Defectors’ stories are bound to be suspect. How much credence would the world have given to Phillip Agee had he published his book on the CIA while living in Moscow? The non-defector books are hardly more encouraging. Take two recent examples, John Barron’s KGB Today: The Hidden Hand (London 1983) and Dezinformatzia […]

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