The View From the Bridge: Gerry Gable. Melita Norwood. Kosovo. Tomlinson

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] journalists at that time; but mainly because there was no corroborative evidence for the fascinating allegations contained in it – notably the request by MI6 that Aspin kill the MI6 agent/bank-robber Kenneth Littlejohn. In the book Aspin’s MI6 handler was codenamed ‘Homer’. Surprise, surprise, an MI6 controller, Roger Hamer, codenamed Homer, is reported in […]

Downing Street Diary: With Harold Wilson in No. 10

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] minister’s time that it is not difficult to believe, as Joe Haines has reported in his most recent account of these events, that Dr Stone offered to kill her. (3) The book is full of fascinating fragments. One worth telling here concerns Lord Wigg, the former George Wigg MP, who, for the first couple […]

Searchlight again

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 […]

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’, […]

Pretexts

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

Daniel Ellsberg New York: Viking, 2003 Colin Challen MP The timely publication of Ellsberg’s memoir shows that from the 1964 Tonkin Gulf incident to the Arabian Gulf in 2003, little seems to have changed in the United States’ approach to starting war. Ellsberg’s account of secret White House activity in the wake of the Tonkin … Read more

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 […]

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 […]

Agca: true confessions

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

[…] of votes due to the mass of support which it manages to mobilize.” (Times 22 June 1983) It was also reported that the Camorra had agreed to kill several designated by the Red Brigades as the result of a ‘blood pact’ between the two groups. (Guardian 21/6/83) The Camorra had tried to kill a […]

Gordon Winter: Inside BOSS and After

Lobster Issue 18 (1989)

[…] of the most dangerous disclosures I made in my book was that BOSS had a top secret ‘death squad’ known as the ‘Z-squad’, which was formed to kill Pretoria’s known enemies, particularly those living in exile outside South Africa. This expose was treated with ridicule when my book came out. But the world’s newspapers […]

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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