A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] National Executive Committee (NEC), offered him a bribe. Sniffing the political wind in Scotland three years later, Sillars recalls how when he told ‘virulently anti-Communist’ Labour National agent Sara Barker that we could lose to the SNP ‘she was incredulous’. Even before he was elected MP for South Ayrshire in 1970 he had formed […]

White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate Story by Phil Stanford

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 1 2 Hougan has some interesting material on Watergate at . This tale, taken with the account by Robert Merrit of his time as a gay informant/ agent provocateur in Washington in this period,3 convey a vivid picture of political sleaze in America’s capital, as well as being an exemplar of Peter Dale Scott’s […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] But Harris and Wilbourn claim they have new evidence to suggest that Haushofer was risking his own life in the perilous mission, by acting as a double agent for the British. According to their earlier book Rudolf Hess: A New Technical Analysis of the Hess Flight, May 194112 the three most senior RAF officers […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] membership secretary of most left/peace groups in a few months simply because nobody wants to do those chores. The late Harry Newton, for example, an MI5-Special Branch agent, became the treasurer of the Institute of Workers Control.3 Newton is also said to have ‘penetrated’ CND headquarters. On the one occasion I visited the headquarters […]

The view from the bridge

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Harold Smith RIP Harold Smith has died. In Lobster 24 I summarised Smith’s account of witnessing the outgoing British state rigging the pre-independence elections in Nigeria which, he argued, led to the Biafran war and millions of dead. Smith’s story can be found by Googling ‘Harold Smith + […]

Dallas again

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a commonplace among JFK researchers that we would never find out whodunnit until somebody confessed. We have had confessions from two former CIA employees – one contract agent, Holt, and a senior officer, Hunt – and both were greeted by the Kennedy researchers with near universal disbelief. 28 On Estes see for example or […]

The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] prewar European colonial powers given the UN Charter and its promise of national self-determination. The US regime was also able to market itself as the ideal development agent. Unscathed by World War II, it had already devoted substantial efforts to ‘rebuild’ Europe and supply food and other economic aid to countries left in distress […]

The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] dropped. Millions dead and often permanent environmental damage was done to health and livelihoods as ‘19 million gallons of toxic herbicides’, and indiscriminate use of napalm and Agent Orange were unleashed on Vietnam. The infamous Phoenix Program of assassination and terror with an estimated 70,000 Vietnamese deaths replete with sadistic torture chambers. Whole populations […]

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