Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] given the chance, the FO shut it down. Curiously enough, no sign of said ‘complex operation’ has ever been made visible, not even in Crozier’s memoir Free Agent. Was Libya responsible for the killing of PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984? In one of Tony Gosling’s many e-mails was a timely reminder of the 1996 […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] so, and had travelled extensively to and from the Soviet Union, on private business, since 1951. Conspiracy theories abounded on this point – was Wilson a Soviet agent? Macmillan was simultaneously trying to persuade an irritated, reluctant and puzzled US that the UK should borrow/share the Polaris nuclear missile system (why didn’t the British […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: 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, lead to the Biafran war and millions of dead. Smith’s story can be found by Googling ‘Harold Smith + […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] this in neutral countries during a war. The evidence we have suggests that Churchill didn’t have specific information about Hess’s actions. In 1959, Heinrich Stahmer, Albrecht Haushofer’s agent in Spain, claimed that meetings between Samuel Hoare, Lord Halifax and Rudolf Hess took place in Spain and Portugal between February and April 1941.24 On Stewart […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[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 […]