Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] supply Saddam Hussein. These agents include the late Stephan Adolphus Kock, a former officer in the Rhodesian Special Air Service, consultant to the Midland Bank and putative agent of both MI5 and Mi6; and Sir John Cuckney, a former MI5 officer. Both died in 2008. The document also describes the actions taken by HMG […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] the most important of these Russian agents was Jack Jones, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers’ Union, who had been ‘identified as a paid Soviet agent since the mid-1930s’. (p. 40) For some reason, Bower lets Michael Foot, or agent ‘Boot’ as he was known to Daily Mail readers, off the hook. […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
[PDF file]: […] the ‘private armies’ of the mid-1970s. These were largely psychological operations to bolster the public perception of a climate of disorganization and impending 1 Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War, 1941-91, (London: Harper Collins, 1993) p. 147. 2 Brian Crozier, ‘Crozier Disclosures,’ The Times, 8 July 1993. chaos along the lines indicated by […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
[PDF file]: […] again in relation to ‘AQIM’. Abu Qatada was a recruiter for both the EIJ and the Algerian Islamic Group (GIA), and editor of the GIA’s newsletter. MI5 agent Reda Hassaine said: ‘I saw Qatada brainwash young Muslims, living in Britain from Africa, Somalia, 38 MoD, see note 22, p. 16. Center for Strategic and […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] it. Not so. A few weeks went by and another person tried to attach himself to me, this time claiming to be to be a former MI5 agent who would spill the beans. But he was ill, so ill, and the NHS in London was so bad . . .This goes on for some […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] Reading. See his biographical page at ” 7 . Garrick Alder alerted me to this. 8 2 Oh, really? I had a look at Crozier’s memoir, Free Agent (HarperCollins, 1993). There is nothing in it about such an operation involving Agee.5 mass propaganda in the context of the First World War and the Russian […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] the Guardian’s journalists.19 But the material is all worthwhile – even the page in which Robin Whittaker presents Chapman Pincher’s case that Roger Hollis was a Soviet agent. I don’t agree with the thesis but it is interesting to meet it again. On the down side, there’s a jokey tone to some of it […]