Geheim – CIA in England

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

This is from No 3 volume 7, 1988 of Geheim, the German member of the international brotherhood of parapolitics mags (of which Lobster is apparently the smallest, poorest and least frequent). The good news for those of us too lazy to learn anything but English is that Geheim is going to produce an English- language […]

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Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] No 10. This will come as small surprise to Lobster readers who will recall that Levy met Blair in 1994 through the good offices of the Israeli embassy in London. Levy was recently quoted by the Jewish Chronicle as saying: ‘I have been with him since he became leader and I will be at […]

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Kincoragate: More Bodies

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

[…] no one had been expelled from the country. True, but a few days earlier Mr Guennadi Saline (codename ‘Silver’), First Secretary and Press Attache to the Soviet Embassy in Dublin, was expelled from Eire, as were Victor Lipassov and his wife Evotokia. Mrs Lipassov is believed to be a KGB agent and to have […]

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The thirteenth pillar – the death of Di reconsidered

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] – and for them that means the royals.’ (Interview with Richard Tomlinson. Available at: http://www.anaserve.com/~wethepeople/tomlin2.html) One account says that six MI6 agents were stationed in the British Embassy in Paris on the weekend of the crash. At least one officer was detailed to shadow Diana and Dodi after their arrival from Sardinia (Stuart Qualtrough […]

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Wallace: Information Policy in fiction

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

Last year, in the search for independent corroboration of some of Colin Wallace’s story, I talked to a number of ‘Irish hands’, journalists who had been in Northern Ireland while Wallace was working there. One was Kevin Dowling, the Sunday Mirror correspondent there from 1970-74. Dowling was reluctant to talk much about that period of … Read more

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The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] Gaitskell’s closest ally in the trade unions. When Watson travelled down to London he didn’t stay in a hotel; he stayed in a room at the American Embassy. Had this been known at the time the entire history of the British Labour Party in the 1960s might have been different. This is a very […]

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Defector Politics: or, grooving with Mr G.

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] On p. 115 he named Labour MPs or former MPs Stan Newens, Jo Richardson, Joan Lestor, Frank Allaun and Joan Maynard as ‘confidential contacts’ of the Soviet embassy and ‘fellow travelling MPs’. Crozier had been told of their role as ‘confidential contacts’ by a ‘senior KGB defector in London’. That can only have been […]

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PERMINDEX: The International Trade in Disinformation

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

On the 12th February 1967, Rosemary James of the New Orleans States-Item newspaper discovered that Jim Garrison, District Attorney of New Orleans, had spent more than $8,000 on his own investigation of the assassination of John Kennedy. (The story appeared on the front page on February 20th.) Two weeks later the DA’s office announced the … Read more

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New Labour Notes

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] to be done. And unlike CND which raised its own money as far as I know, young Mr Butler, we are told, got $1000 from the US embassy in London to take a couple of chums across to the States to beat the bushes for private sector funding for his project.(12) Robin Cook at […]

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The View From The Bridge

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] Mind Control (reviewed below). Vialls now believes that, programmed in some fashion, he shot Fletcher from an office of the Hughes Tool Company close to the Libyan Embassy. (Hughes Tool has been a cover for CIA.) The death of Penkofsky: a modern myth continues In Lobster 27 I commented on the developing myth surrounding […]

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