LBJ: the mastermind of JFK’s assassination by Phillip F. Nelson

Lobster Issue

[…] contacts, plus Tippit a few times. Otherwise I can’t say who ran the safe house.’ In this paragraph he offers the Defence Industrial Security Command (DISC) and MI5 Division 5, who were in a version of the assassination story circulating in the 1970s called The Torbitt Memorandum (which originated in the cast of characters […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] was tracked down in 1945 and brought back to Britain from Germany by Anthony Blunt and Owen Morshead, the Royal Family librarian.47 Given Blunt’s high rank in MI5 and his connections to the Palace, it is likely that the Soviets acquired copies of the letters. They would surely have seen in them great potential […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] Murrell’s nephew? Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd are discussed. ‘Holroyd was apparently confined to a mental hospital after he made public the turf war that raged between MI5 and MI6 over who ran operations in Northern Ireland’. (p. 23) 2 ‘Apparently’? Fred was briefly sent to the Army mental hospital at Netley while he […]

Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] the racism of empire’ from an early age. The report Morton produced was kept a close secret and forty years later, when Miller requested a copy from MI5, his request was acknowledged and then ignored. Miller goes on: ‘The Foreign Office had a file called “Sri Lanka Security: Assessment 1978”. That file was destroyed […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] I went to The Guardian in Manchester, UK and met with their then Northern Correspondent. I showed him correspondence from UK-Cabinet Minister Hazel Blears (then responsible for MI5 and Special Branch) that proves that my complaints are being covered-up. He was appalled and told me that he would recommend to his Editor that an […]

More on Hess

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] opening with an account of their dealings with Sir Richard. Conspiracy, Calamity and Cover-up arrives 24 years after Harris first published an explanation8 of how in 1940 MI5 intercepted a letter from the German diplomat Albrecht Haushofer, sent via neutral Portugal to Air Reviews in Lobster 73 at or and Lobster 79 at https://tinyurl.com/28fyu734> […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] which draws heavily on “Smear”, “War Without Honour” etc. . . .The blurb on the back reads “It’s 2007 and, after more than thirty years service in MI5, David Nixon is retiring. The revolutionary left, the miners, the IRA have all been consigned to history and he is looking forward to quiet future of […]

Misleading Parliament – Appendices

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] what the Prime Minister had said to Mr Higgins – i.e. that I had only one ‘job description’. That was also made clear in a report by MI5 in 1975 (see attached extract). Some of the Govt Departments, such as the MoD, would have known that what Mrs Thatcher said in her letter to […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] nonsense apart in great detail at . 39 Landis is discussed below under subhead Dallas again. And see, for example, . 40 41 42 And this included MI5 who had 100% penetration of the Party. 16 striking miners for his shooting.43 As soon as Conservative MP Nicholas Ridley’s 1977 plan to fight the miners […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] There was a brief media orgasm at the end of the first week of April when it was announced that Prince William had been ‘working’ at MI6, MI5 and GCHQ respectively for the previous three weeks. The scale of excitement in the reporting ranged from the fairly sober BBC (‘The Duke of Cambridge has […]

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