Splinter Factor update

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] clear that Sulzberger shared the paper’s intimate relations with the CIA.20 .Hayden B. Peake sent me a photocopy of the review of Splinter Factor from Intelligence and Espionage; an Analytical Bibliography by George Constantinides (Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado). This includes ‘The story is quite unreliable… one of the worst books to appear in years […]

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Mark Felt, Jason Blair and ‘Misty Beethoven’

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] the FBI, where Felt was No. 3 to the Bureau’s Director, J. Edgar Hoover. The Bureau is alleged to have some small responsibilities with respect to counter- espionage and anti-terrorist operations. Among them was the very interesting Yeoman Charles Radford. He was one of the undercover agents in the Pentagon spy-ring that came to […]

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Shorts

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] laissez faire (their lower case) is one of the stable of publications from the International Freedom Foundation in London. Volume 1 number 3 contained a feature, ‘ Espionage after the Cold War’, reports from the proceedings of a conference on 15 November 1991 at which former KGB and former CIA officers spoke together in […]

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Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British anti-semitism 1939/1940

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] capitulated on March 13th and the volunteers saw no action. This did not discourage either Ramsay or Stokes from fresh efforts. Ramsay concentrated Right Club activities on espionage, assisted by Anna Wolkoff, Tyler Kent and a small social circle.(9) In March 1940 Griffiths tells us that Wolkoff leaked the British/French plans to seize Narvik […]

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Jonestown. The secret life of Jim Jones: a parapolitical fugue

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] – a sort of West Point for spooks. Subsequently, he worked at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow – until he was declared persona non grata for suspected espionage activities. Kicked out of the Soviet Union, he went to work for Radio Liberty, a CIA-created and financed propaganda network based in Munich. There, he was […]

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Web Update

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] of FOIA pertaining to FBI Electronic Reading Room – cases from the FBI FOIPA reading room, under categories including Famous Persons (eg John Lennon, Trotsky); Historical Interest; Espionage (eg the Rosenbergs); Violent Crime; Unusual Phenomena (eg cattle mutilation, Majestic 12, Project Blue Book, Roswell). Pdf format. Security Service Homepage http://www.mi5.gov.uk Official website of the […]

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Willy Brandt: the “Good German”

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] R. and Crowley, R. T. — The New KGB: The Engine of Soviet Power, (London, Harvester Press, 1986) Dobson, Christopher and Payne, Ronald — The Dictionary of Espionage, (London, Grafton, 1986) Hersh, Seymour — The Price of Power: Kissinger in the White House, (Washington, Summit, 1983) Hohne, Heniz and Zolling, Hermann, — The General […]

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Justice Delayed

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] MKULTRA has faded, this important case of Justice Delayed ought to be followed very closely, for it will remind all Americans of the contempt in which its espionage establishment holds the average citizen. It should never be forgotten that it was the CIA that sprinkled LSD throughout society in the 1950s, or that the […]

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JFK: Oswald? Which one?

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] infers it from the evidence of the two ‘Oswalds’. If this is true, Armstrong has uncovered the most elaborate intelligence operation (and done the greatest piece of espionage detective work) I have ever read about.(2) Into the CIA’s anti-Castro underground In Armstrong’s hypothesis, after Russian-speaking ‘Harvey’ defected, adopting Lee’s identity, Lee Oswald remained in […]

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Echelon

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] activity in Britain has enjoyed a steady growth throughout the past two decades. The principal motivation for this rush of development is the US interest in commercial espionage. In the Fifties, during the development of the ‘special relationship’ between America and Britain, one US institution was singled out for special attention. The NSA, the […]

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