Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Indeed, MI6 colluded in the provision of components for the Iraqi ‘Babylon’ Supergun, disavowing its murdered agent Jonathon Moyle in Chile, and allowed British businessmen at Matrix- Churchill, who were MI6 agents, to be prosecuted.32 Echoes of this grubby incident have been invoked by the recent extradition (without due process) of retired British businessman […]

Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a private lunch by John Harvey MP – the Commons’ ‘oil’ man – who was also former constituency chairman to Second World War Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. ‘To think, he knew the Great Man!’ my father would say in wonder. It is impossible to overestimate what the name ‘Churchill’ meant in those days. […]

Secret History: Writing the Rise of Britain’s Intelligence Services by Simon Ball

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: SECRET HISTORY Writing the Rise of Britain’s Intelligence Services Simon Ball London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. Around £17.00 p/b Robin Ramsay In the last 30 years or so academic writing on intelligence services in this country has gone from being a non-subject to an enormous field, far too big for any one person to cover. […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] supporter of Sir Oswald Mosley. Joyce’s talks, like Luxembourg’s broadcasts in the 1930s, were extremely popular with audiences across the UK, much to the annoyance of the Churchill government.3 Plugge lost his seat in Parliament in the 1945 Labour landslide but retained his commercial interests. For some years in the 1940s the Attlee government […]

Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] evidence tested and, when possible, a portion of any extract from the DNA evidence should be preserved for further testing.’110 ‘Only make the rubble jump’ – Winston Churchill To refute the charge of fraud, I extensively reviewed the voluminous Spandau records. They comprise 36 microfilm reels at the National Archives in College Park, MD […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] . 33 hacking of US politics, these are plausible but not verifiable. Yet, accommodating a sphere of influence for a great power is exactly what FDR and Churchill did with Stalin, and every president from Truman to George H. W. Bush did with the Soviet Union. When East Germans, Hungarians, Czechs, Poles rose up […]

The Mossad Spy It’s not what you’ve done it’s who you are… the transgender spy

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[…] commented: ‘ . . . with the rise of Thatcher and the great show trials of the early nineties related to the clandestine Anglo-American arming of Iraq – Euromac, Ordtec, Matrix Churchill, Elizabeth Forsyth, Asil Nadir – the iron fist of political control has been worthy of anything that has come out of Eastern Europe.’

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] three right, and seems unconcerned about the others. He focuses on Fleming’s private sex life, the theft of his friends’ wives and his association with celebrities like Churchill, Admiral Godfrey, General William Donovan, Sir William Stephenson and President Kennedy. He also dwells on the overall popularity of the books and movies. As for the […]

Donald Trump and the Christian Right

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] required to save the country and God has chosen Donald Trump. He has been ‘served up by the hand of Providence’ like ‘Margaret Thatcher, George Patton, Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln’ before. (p. 64) No one should doubt what is at stake. ‘Satan’, he tells his readers, ‘considers taking this nation down to be […]

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