Shorts: James Rusbridger. Illuminati. Gordievsky. Cavendish

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] the Germans; and the authenticity of the disinformation was bolstered by charging Dreyfus with the leak! A modern myth? In a piece about the arrest of Soviet agent in the CIA, Rick Ames, the Sunday Telegraph, 27 February, 1994, said that Ames ‘recruited Soviet agents, ruthlessly betraying at least 10, knowing they would be […]

Intercepting Number Stations

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

Langley Pierce Interproducts, Perth, Scotland, 1994, £9.95 Strange little book, 90 pages listing and, it claims, identifying the shortwave radio stations used by the world’s intelligence services to broadcast coded messages – groups of numbers – to field agents and stations. Want to eavesdrop on Mossad’s numbers? SIS’s? The KGB’s? etc etc. Is any of … Read more

Pissing in or pissing out? The ‘big tent’ of Green Alliance

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] profits, £9bn and £9.8bn respectively. (2) This was followed by curious press reports that both Shell and BP had hired ex-MI6 staff and a former German intelligence agent to infiltrate Greenpeace (3) and that Tesco had asked MI5 to investigate the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. In an obscure spat about salmon […]

Still hazy after all these years

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] leading up to the publication of the book Farewell America about the Kennedy assassination.(2) This may be marginalia but it is interesting marginalia nonetheless. Notably, former FBI agent Turner tells us: that the book may have resulted from contact between the Garrison inquiry and the KGB. Working for New Orleans DA Jim Garrison, Turner […]

Loose cuts and short ends

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] It is improbable that MI5 (presumably) would have chosen someone like Wright for the job, presumably, of penetrating the KAU. And if this ‘Peter Wright’ was an agent for MI5, say, why would the Kenyan authorities have expelled him? ‘Wright’, surely, on being harassed, would simply have said, ‘Call the office.’ It might be […]

Clippings Digest to May 31st. 1984

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] and people. Guardian 30th April (letters) Gay clubs raided in Soho: “Staff in gay clubs nearby said police has (sic) been making daily raids.” Times 17th May Agent provocateurs operating in 6 police authorities. Guardian 19th May (letters)     Detailed account of police raid on London gay bookshop in Rights (NCCL) Summer 1984 […]

More Notes on the Right

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] and Butler turn up in California with Ivor Benson (South African), Ray White (Australian), David Irving (British) and Eustace Mullins (American). Ivor Benson is a racist apologist/ agent for the South African government.(9) Ray White is the managing director of Veritas Publishing, Australia’s leading publisher/distributor of racist and anti-Semitic literature.(10) Eustace Mullins I’ve just […]

Baghdad’s Spy: A Personal Memoir of Espionage and Intrigue from Iraq to London

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] an important and interesting book but rather hard to describe because it contains so much. At its heart is Souza’s father, an Iraqi Anglophile, who became SIS’s agent in Iraq, and later in London. Using her firsthand knowledge supplemented by her father’s papers, Souza has created a classic of the espionage genre: I know […]

The Pinay Circle and Destabilisation in Europe

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] Giulio Andreotti, former Italian Prime Minister; Portuguese putschist General Antonio de Spinola; former Franco minister and senior Opus Dei member Silva Munoz; and Vatican prelate and BND agent Monsignore Brunello. Paul Violet, Jean Violet’s son, is one of Chirac’s closest advisors, nicknamed ‘the adjutant’ by Canard Enchaine. Langemann also reports that Sir Arthur Franks […]

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