The CIA and Mountbatten

Lobster Issue 4 (1984)

[…] he had been anyone other than Mountbatten it is almost certain that he would not have survived our positive vetting tests. He was the perfect target for KGB blackmail. … Maybe he was the best of patriots but he gave us every reason to believe that, patriot or otherwise, he was highly vulnerable. We […]

Brands and Britannia: Some aspects of national image and identity

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] addition, should al-Qaida’s brand person, Osama Bin Laden die, the brand succession is now secured. Russia The inconsistency of the British and American brands is something former KGB officer, now President Putin of Russia, has played for all it is worth.(19) In his bid to remain at the top of Russia’s political machine – […]

‘Conspiracy Theories’ and Clandestine Politics

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] minimize the role played by revolutionary vanguard parties in the Russian and communist Chinese revolutions, or to deny that powerful intelligence services like the CIA and the KGB have fomented coups and intervened massively in the internal affairs of other sovereign states since the end of World War II. In short, it might well […]

Kincoragate – Loose Ends

Lobster Issue 4 (1984)

[…] started with the writing of a book by Rupert Allason, pen name Nigel West, son of a leading MI6 officer. The original fight was about whether the KGB had deeply penetrated every aspect of British Intelligence. Now a lot of dirty linen is being washed in public and the background to the purges in […]

SISies: MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations and A Life: A. J. Ayer

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] robbed’. It was this unarticulated feeling of disappointment that in part later enabled some people even to entertain the notion that Gaitskell had been bumped-off by the KGB to make way for Wilson. This notion wasn’t entertained in NW1 but there was a feeling that Wilson had been suspiciously quick to take advantage of […]

The Case Against Israel, and, The Power of Israel

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] to serve the interests of Israel goes back well before that time. But once the Berlin Wall fell, the blame for terrorism switched from the Kremlin and KGB to Israel’s neighbours and Islamic radicalism. Yet virtually all of the British electorate remains in ignorance of the origins and purposes of this strategy. These two […]

Journals

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] claiming to have designed UFAs – unconventional flying apparatuses; an essay on the Soviet musician and inventor Lev Termen; a not very interesting interview with a former KGB officer; an interview with someone who practices ‘sculptural psychotherapy’; and articles claiming a physical basis for possession, on dowsing, and on ‘torsion fields’. Interesting though much […]

Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] Michigan strike breakers; the German-American Bund; Nazi sabotage networks; turbulent relationships with Mosley and Gerald L.K. Smith; the post-war fascist international and its intersection with Western intelligence; KGB, Soviet diplomats; Stalinist artists; white Russians; a mysterious Hebrew school principal cum diamond smuggler; Cuban journalists; Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother; Gladio; Euro-terrorists; S & M – […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] in which Epstein tries to prove that Oswald fell victim to an elaborate Soviet intelligence ‘honey trap’ while in Japan that led him to spy for the KGB. Shortly after Legend appeared in print, however, investigators for the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) interviewed some of Epstein’s purported sources. The interviews (many now […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

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[…] outfit based in Belgium (Stevenson, 1983, p. 272). (See appendix on Interdoc.) This, of course, was before Ellis was accused by Pincher and others of being a KGB “mole”. The publisher is given as Tom Stacey but the book is catalogued by Geoffrey StewartSmith’s distribution service as “a Common Cause publication”. Stacey turns up […]

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