UFOs and disinformation

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

In Lobster 40 I wrote about a long-term operation by elements within the US military and intelligence services to disinform those interested in UFOs. More information on this has subsequently come to light. The MAJESTIC mystery solved? The real author of this section is Martin Cannon: I have just rewritten his e-mail to me. […]

Orders for the Captain

Lobster Issue 15 (1988)

[…] to the North should the situation demand it. Captain James Kelly (b.1929) joined the Irish Army in 1949 and, after other duties, was transferred to G2 ( Intelligence) in 1960. On the appointment of Col. Michael Hefferon to the post of Director of Intelligence in 1962, Kelly became his Personal Staff Officer until Hefferon’s […]

Introduction

Lobster Issue 2 (1983)

THE LOBSTER is a journal/newsletter about intelligence, parapolitics and so forth. This is an atypical issue. No 1, which covered British Intelligence operations in Northern Ireland, the work of the Round Table, recent events surrounding the Papacy etc. gives a better idea of what we’re interested in. We welcome clippings, articles, letters, reviews, on […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] to know that they can now visit a website with some interesting further information about this maverick figure. The site can be found at < http:// www.pharo.com/ intelligence >, and is run by the team which produced Double Standards, last year’s interesting study of the Hess affair. Some of the material will be familiar […]

Fiji coup update

Lobster Issue 15 (1988)

[…] mostly from the Fiji Sun 9th July 1987. “Paul Freeman was involved in a destabilisation action against a NZ labour government in 1975. He received a Security Intelligence Service (SIS) file from an SIS employee, Rohan Jays, with embarrassing information about a Labour MP. Freeman publicly handed the file to the Prime Minister, thus […]

Big Boys Rules

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Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)

[…] of the weight of the British state descending upon Channel 4 TV and the production company Box in retaliation for the Box/Channel 4 programme alleging military and intelligence collaboration between the British state and the Protestant paramilitaries in Northern Ireland. (See The Independent 29 July 1992 for an account, including reports of break-ins and […]

Defending the Realm: Inside MI5 and the War on Terrorism

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] Affair which was reviewed in Lobster 38, this account of MI5’s adjustment to the post Cold War world is one of the best books on the UK’s intelligence services, up there with Stephen Dorril’s MI6 book, Paul Lashmar and James Oliver’s book on IRD and Richard Aldrich’s The Hidden Hand. Rereading it, I was […]

The Tory Right between the wars

Lobster Issue 15 (1988)

[…] March 1987 Pressure Groups, Tory Businessmen and the aura of political corruption before the First World War – Frans Coetzee – in Historical Journal, December 1986 Military Intelligence and the defence of the realm: the surveillance of soldiers and civilians in Britain during the First World War – David Englander – in British Society […]

The Gospel according to Saint Jim

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)

[…] did indeed use the alias Bertrand, second, that he knew Oswald, and third, that he was a significant CIA asset. (7) Clay Shaw, CMC and Permindex Shaw’s intelligence connections appear to go back to World War Two. In any event a CIA document declassified in 1977 confirmed that Shaw had worked with the Agency […]

Brothers

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] the Soviet bloc. Talbot recasts events in this period as attempts by Kruschev and JFK to wind down the Cold War which were frustrated by their military-industrial- intelligence complexes who were making too much money and generating too many good careers for that to be accepted. Talbot conveys better than any other account I […]

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