Running Rings

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] likely to go rogue than state employees? And does GCHQ vet all recruits, including American employees of Amazon Web Services? Presumably they may liaise with the CIA/ FBI et al to check people out. That activity would be just the kind of thing already privatised on the other side of the pond. Some have […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] It was as dangerous as the NKVD material on the mass murder of Polish POWs in the Katyn Forest, or the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg. For the FBI and CIA it would be like records of conspiracies leading up to the assassination of JFK. John Costello, backed by a New York budget, was first […]

A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[PDF file]: […] its empire in the same period.5 It is becoming increasingly clear that MI5 have played a considerable role in fragmenting and frustrating the British Left, and the FBI a similar, albeit bloodier, role in the USA. I suspect we will find that throughout the Commonwealth countries the same thing happened. Little fragments keep cropping […]

Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn From Israel by David Rubin

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] the Islamists, condemning anyone daring to make a stand as ‘a racist, an Islamophobe, a homophobe, or a sexist’. As for Hillary Clinton, he reports that ‘ongoing FBI investigations may or may not reveal’ whether Muslim nations funding the Clinton Foundation ‘influenced her arrogant tone toward Israel and her decisions as Secretary of State’. […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] hung for the murder of his cousin in a separate but related case. There is some speculation, not substantiated, that he was eliminated as part of the FBI COINTELPRO programme that throughout the 1960s and ‘70s terminated the careers (and lives) of many black American, civil rights and left activists in the US, Central […]

Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] its empire in the same period.5 It is becoming increasingly clear that MI5 have played a considerable role in fragmenting and frustrating the British Left, and the FBI a similar, albeit bloodier, role in the USA. I suspect we will find that throughout the Commonwealth countries the same thing happened. Little fragments keep cropping […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] when the Republicans got wind of this, JFK’s brother (and Attorney General) expelled her (illegally) from the US. Because Rometsch had originally come from East Germany, the FBI suspected she might be a Soviet bloc agent. No evidence of this has every appeared. Rometsch has not been seen or heard of since. My guess […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] Azov Battalion has cultivated a relationship with members of the Atomwaffen Division150 as well as with U.S.–based militants from the Rise Above Movement, or RAM, which the FBI has labelled a ‘white supremacy extremist group’ based in Southern California. A week later, a Homeland Security subcommittee was told:. Azov reportedly has connections to the […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] secret service to prevent America from ‘falling into the hands of capitalist robber barons.’ Clearly that did not altogether succeed; and it is doubtful whether either the FBI or MI5 could be tasked with a similar duty today. (The last I heard on this from a senior intelligence officer – ‘Chatham House rules’ prevent […]

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