Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s

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Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] little to the sum of knowledge on the issue, it could well have been left alone until more was known.’ On the other hand in ‘Shoot to Kill’, the author is convinced. Dorril writes: ‘Those who accuse the British government of a shoot to kill policy in Northern Ireland, in the sense of a […]

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Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust, and, US Intelligence and the Nazis

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust Ed. David Bankier New York: Enigma Books, 2006. p/b, $23 US Intelligence and the Nazis Richard Breitman et al New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, p/b, £16.99   On 11 January 1943, the British intercepted ‘one of the most extraordinary messages’ of the war at Bletchley Park: it referred ‘to … Read more

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9/11’s Trainer in Terrorism Was an FBI Informant

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[…] State Department Watch List. (14) As he had done earlier in Egypt, the sheikh “issued a fatwa in America that permitted his followers to rob banks and kill Jews.”(15) In November 1990, three of Mohamed’s trainees conspired together to kill Meir Kahane, the racist founder of the Jewish Defense League. The actual killer, El […]

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Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] The letter to O’Hara reflects this inability to tell truth from fiction. Gerry Gable is accused of being in some kind of plot with the KGB to kill Lyndon LaRouche’s people in Paris some years ago.(4) In making this accusation he grossly libels an academic and writer by saying that Gerry had paid this […]

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Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] era. Most usefully the authors cite the available information sources on Ball which we have reproduced below. Face to face with the colonel accused of plotting to kill the Pope Tana de Zulueta and Peter Godwin Sunday Times Magazine May 26 1985 Long, detailed account – essentially a refutation – of the ‘Bulgarian connection’, […]

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Cold War Stories

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

US deception operation blowback The e-newsletter stuff (1) ran this fascinating piece around 15 March. ‘At the Princeton conference last Saturday, Raymond Garthoff, a distinguished historian now with the Brookings Institute and a former CIA analyst, mentioned that we had recently learned of an FBI-Army double agent operation that may have spurred the Soviets to … Read more

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Feedback

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

From: M. R. D. Foot Scott Newton’s footnote at the end of his piece on Hess, in your number tries to keep alive Dr Hugh Thomas’s tale that the pilot who reached Scotland could not have been Hess, because he bore no trace of the gunshot wound the real Hess had received in Roumania in … Read more

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Like books we should have so many witnesses?: Some recent JFK literature

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] assassination, and disingenuous if you have. Mark Lane is working on a book-length critique. Mind Closed/Case Opened. Russell, Dick. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hired to Kill Oswald and Prevent the Assassination of JFK Richard Case Nagell Is –). New York: Carroll and Graf/Richard Gallen, 1992. 824pp. Illustrated, bibliography, index. W. G. Hoskins […]

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In a Common Cause: the Anti-Communist Crusade in Britain 1945-60

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] Otter heard speak was after the Hungarian uprising of 1956, addressing a meeting of Eastern European refugees……cheered throughout to the echo by people carrying banners saying ‘ Kill the reds.’ ‘ (38) Into the CIA web The BLEF was also working with the European Movement at a time when the CIA was supplying most […]

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The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2001

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

Gore Vidal London: Abacus, 2002, £10.99, p/b   Once upon a time collections of essays by Gore Vidal would appear every few years or so in this country in those neat little Panther paperbacks: On Our Own Now (1976), Matters of Fact and of Fiction (1978), Pink Triangle and Yellow Star (1982) for example. The … Read more

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