The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] who had contact with the CPGB,42 people like Mrs Thatcher believed that Arthur Scargill, though not a CPGB member, was part of ‘the enemy within’ – an agent of the Soviets. This idiocy climaxed with the murder of police sergeant John Speed in Leeds in a botched psy-op intended to blame Jefferson Morley takes […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] of Civil Rights for blacks. I had plans to meet Thane Eugene Cesar in the Philippines last June until he demanded a payment of $25,000 through his agent Dan Moldea. Ironically, Moldea penned a meticulous and compelling indictment of Cesar in a 1995 book and then suddenly exculpated him by fiat in a bizarre […]

‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] Carr and his career see or . In this he states that his responsibilities included ‘the possibilities of desalting sea water with nuclear power as a heat agent’ and ‘the Kennedy Foundation had sponsored some studies and it had been shown that mental retardation apparently has some connection with protein deficiency during pregnancy and […]

British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] Koestler and Orwell? An MI5 officer assessed Koestler as ‘one third genius, one third blackguard and one third lunatic’, which seems pretty fair. His trajectory from Comintern agent to Cold Warrior is usefully documented, right up until the time that he became too hawkish for his new employers. Most controversial, of course, is George […]

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Almost everyone who knew Whitson well believed he was working for some branch of the CIA, operating in various parts of the world as an anti-communist penetration agent and fixer. O’Neill writes, ‘Once he’d consumed me, I found myself fixating on possibilities that I would’ve dismissed as insane only months before.’ CHAOS and COINTELPRO […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] admitted at the beginning of the inquiry – but impressive nonetheless. The list reminded me of a number of things. There was the comment by former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter that, ‘British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team our man is the […]

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