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[…] great LSD proselytiser Timothy Leary: Leary himself said in an interview with journalist Walter Bowart near the end of his life that he was working as an intelligence agent since 1962. “I was a witting agent of the CIA” which, he claimed, had recognized him as “an important national asset.” Asked by Bowart to […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] sex abuse ring discovered during surveillance operation’, with this: ‘MI6 infiltrated the Kincora boys’ home in east Belfast to spy on William McGrath’.1 He continued: ‘The ex- intelligence officer said MI6 was ordered to watch the Kincora care home in Belfast in the 1970s because one of its housemasters, William McGrath, was the leader […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] great LSD proselytiser Timothy Leary: Leary himself said in an interview with journalist Walter Bowart near the end of his life that he was working as an intelligence agent since 1962. “I was a witting agent of the CIA” which, he claimed, had recognized him as “an important national asset.” Asked by Bowart to […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] he managed to penetrate the CIA-Air Force U2 program run out of a highly restricted area in the huge Atsugi base on behalf of the Soviet Union’s intelligence services; that as an air-traffic controller, Oswald tracked U-2 flights out of Atsugi and learned just how high the U-2 flew. With this information, the Soviets […]

Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy by Tim Milne

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] the history of espionage have had their public career, achievements, character and private life so thoroughly surveyed and discussed in literature and the media as the British intelligence officer Kim Philby. His story is well-known, but a brief resume might be useful. He was a classic product of the British establishment. Son of the […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] FARI were both active in the UK in 1970s. 1 2 See, for example, . The Wiki entry on him at does its best to minimise his intelligence connections. A much more accurate account is at . 3 or 4 There is nothing in it about such an operation involving Agee.5 What actually happened […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] FARI were both active in the UK in 1970s. 1 2 See, for example, . The Wiki entry on him at does its best to minimise his intelligence connections. A much more accurate account is at . 3 or 4 1 The View from the Bridge What actually happened is more prosaic. By the […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] secrets – the €500bn EU bailout of the Eurozone; a forthcoming sale of UK government assets and advance notice of Gordon Brown’s resignation as Prime Minister. This intelligence was shared with a powerful Wall Street bank, JPMorgan – with the clear intention the bank should use the information to make speculative capital gains. A […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] draw on historical and contemporary material to ask how this came about and, in particular, to look at the role of the energy security industry and private intelligence and military contractors in the preparation for war with Iran. Ridiculous as they were, the charges of an Iranian assassination plot on US soil were timely. […]

Kincora: abuse and the British state

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] in public care in Kincora and other institutions, but none of them has satisfactorily addressed public concerns. What makes Kincora remarkable is the lingering suspicion that British Intelligence connived in the continued abuse of children, in order to secure intelligence on Loyalist paramilitaries. This paper shows that there is good reason for that suspicion. […]

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