David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] publicly acknowledged their own existence. Shayler (via Machon) details how, during those early meetings with MI6, Tunworth was keen to tell all about the LIFG: ‘The MI6 agent Tunworth admitted his connections with Islamic extremists and Al Qaeda members during a debrief with his MI6 handler, David Watson, in late 1995….’13 Once again here, […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] him in the US, is a big subject which divides the American left and the right. Within that is a sub-theme, that Trump is actually a Russian agent. A summary of the evidence supporting this view – and there’s rather a lot of it – has been published by 25 See, for example, David […]

The G-man and the switchman: Two JFK microstudies by professional investigators

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] probably unrelated to Milteer and his accomplices, but Kennedy’s next visit to Miami on 20 November 1963 passed without an assassination attempt. Two days later, FBI Special Agent (S.A.) Adams, as the author Don Adams then was, was still trying to track down Milteer for questioning when President Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] sent to the Soviet Union in the hope that his presence would produce a reaction within the KGB which would be echoed in some way by its agent within the CIA, thus identifying him. This presupposes that the KGB or its agent within the CIA would be sloppy enough to reveal its interest in […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] the Drug Wars – How Billions of Illegal Dollars Are Washed Through Banks & Businesses (Chicago: Probus, 1992) p. 121; Reuters, February 11, 1992 (testimony of DEA agent Thomas Telles); Albert (see note 12) p. 368; Ron Chepesiuk, The Bullet or the Bribe: Taking Down Colombia’s Cali Drug Cartel (London: Bloomsbury, 2003) p. 104. […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] for murder because he knew something potentially embarrassing See, for example, David Hart’s note to her at . Brian Crozier devotes several chapters of his memoir Free Agent (London: HarperCollins, 1993) to his work briefing Mrs Thatcher on ‘the threat’. 13 ‘Forbidden history: CIA censorship, The Invisible Government, and the origins of the “deep […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Story (London: Sedgwick and Jackson, 1978). 1 2 See, for example, David Hart’s note to her at . Brian Crozier devotes several chapters of his memoir Free Agent (London: HarperCollins, 1993) to his work briefing Mrs Thatcher on ‘the threat’. 3 3 give up one of her central beliefs, despite evidence which falsified it. […]

John Stonehouse book reviews

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] In other words it is merely undocumented assertions. Some of which are striking. For example on p. 9 he describes the late Donald Chesworth as a Czech agent. If so, he is not worthy of mention in Christopher Andrew’s The Defence of the Realm, as close as we have to an official history of […]

Garrick part 2

Lobster Issue

[…] have a background in British military intelligence, specifically as a producer of studies of mass psychology, which he has described as: ‘Nothing fancy. I wasn’t a double agent or . . . whatever. My job was to predict civilian response to hypothetical scenarios.’2 While Steel tells demonstrable and damaging lies whenever it suits him, […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Story (London: Sedgwick and Jackson, 1978). 1 2 See, for example, David Hart’s note to her at . Brian Crozier devotes several chapters of his memoir Free Agent (London: HarperCollins, 1993) to his work briefing Mrs Thatcher on ‘the threat’. 3 3 to give up one of her central beliefs, despite evidence which falsified […]

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