Outlawing the Naming of Agents

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] victim of an assassination attempt as a result of his or her name having been published. Proponents of the bill cite the cases of Welch and Kinsman, CIA officers who were attacked allegedly as a result of their identities being printed in American magazines; the evidence to support this allegation is, in our view, […]

Spook-wise: MI6 and Clare Short

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] like one. Paul Robeson’s son alleged – without evidence as far as I could see – that his father had been giving a psychedelic drug by the CIA. More significant, in my view, was the kicker to the story that, having displayed symptoms of depression, Robeson was given 54 electroshock ‘treatments’ in Britain. (Sunday […]

Churchill and Secret Service

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] the revelation that the European Movement was only kept afloat by funds that Churchill solicited from the Americans: Sandys urgently requested £80,000 to keep it solvent. The CIA funds, channelled via Donovan and Dulles, prevented its collapse during the first two decisive meetings of the Council of Europe at Strasbourg in 1949 and 1950. […]

Shorts (KAL 007 & JFK)

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] works. I’ll tell you the real story of how Jack Kennedy got killed someday. It was supposed to be a miss! What a set of accidents! The CIA didn’t know anus from appetite that day. ” (p123) A Lobster reader writes that he repeatedly finds that photographs taken of military installations come back from […]

How many divisions does the Pope have?

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] Sadat, (13) from drifting into the Soviet orbit. The solution to this danger was to install some congenial anti-Soviet advisers in Cairo. Allen Dulles, head of the CIA, turned for help to Reinhard Gehlen. Gehlen recommended Skorzeny as head of the mission. Skorzeny was uncertain but was swayed to accept after conversations with Schacht. […]

Eye Spy!

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] legendary. We are told Montesinos ‘breached army regulations’ prior to 1977; we are not told he was put on trial by the leftist Velasco regime as a CIA agent. EYE SPY! reports that, ‘ironically, the camera that recorded was one of his own’: there is no speculation as to how the spymaster’s super-secret videotapes […]

Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British anti-semitism 1939/1940

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] the US London embassy who leaked to Ramsay all the private material between Roosevelt and Churchill 1939/1940. Originally thought to be a Nazi spy, after 1945 the CIA considered him to have been a Soviet agent all along (not a contradiction during the Nazi-Soviet Pact). Aarons and Loftus (op. cit.) also say, p. 212, […]

No one ever suddenly became depraved

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] near the front line of the anti-communist battle of the cold war.’ () Uniquely useless The article presents Radek Sikorski, the New Atlantic Initiative, Encounter and the CIA, William Kristol, the Weekly Standard, Henry ‘Scoop’ Jackson, Richard and Daniel Pipes and their Middle East Forum, Richard Perle, and even Team B, in a manner […]

Kitson, Kincora and counter-insurgency in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] Civil Service regulations.) Production Services, having comprehensive printing facilities, provided forgeries of various sorts – driving licenses (Holroyd’s Eire driving license in a false name, for example), CIA identity cards, posters, press ID cards, bank statements and so on. Information Policy (Inf Pol) went into the psyops arena with smear campaigns against political figures […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

Volume 20 of Research in Political Economy, edited by Paul Zarembka, titled ‘Confronting 9-11, Ideologies of Race, and Eminent Economists,’ (JAI/Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, New York, Oxford, 2002) contains important essays on the current US administration’s foreign policy by Peter Dale Scott and David MacGregor. The abstract to Scott’s essay is : ‘The United States since […]

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