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SISies: MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations and A Life: A. J. Ayer

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations Stephen Dorril Fourth Estate, London, 2000, £25 A Life: A. J. Ayer Ben Rogers Chatto and Windus, London, 1999, £20 Many books on intelligence matters simply rehash old ‘facts’, adding a new twist to – a slightly different interpretation of – well-known, if not necessarily well-understood, events. If … Read more

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Notes From the Underground: British Fascism 1974-92

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

Part 1, 1974-83 See also: Part 2: British Fascism 1974-92 (II) (Lobster 24) Part 3: British fascism 1983-6 (Lobster 25) Part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II) (Lobster 26) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) Introduction This essay does not set out to be a comprehensive history of fascism in this period but rather to … Read more

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Brief Notes On The Political Importance Of Secret Societies

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

PART 1 See also Part 2 in Lobster 6 Most Western political scientists, following in the traditions of Marx or Weber, scorn the study of secret and occult societies as irrelevant to understanding the politics of the age. In their view, politics can best be understood as the working out, in public arenas, of bureaucratic, … Read more

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Kiss me on the apocalypse!

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

Some reflections on the life, times and politics of Sir James Goldsmith The Clermont Set The Clermont Club was opened in 1962 by John Aspinall after the gaming laws had been liberalised by the MacMillan government.(1)During the 1950s Aspinall built up a personal fortune providing premises for exclusive gambling sessions in London, much of which … Read more

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Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

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[PDF file]: […] “suitably grateful” for the DeMotte and other “fine stories” which Bennett had been “feeding” Woodward; and also an arrangement between Bennett and attorney Edward Bennett Williams to “kill off” revelations of the CIA’s relationship to Bennett’s agency, the Mullen Company. Edward Bennett Williams, the lawyer who previously had done work for the CIA with […]

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[…] contacted him; and his family were given armed protection for the duration of the manhunt. Prudom had earlier rung Sanderson’s home and told his wife he would kill Sanderson. There was a bizarre coda to the Prudom affair. In September 1982, Sanderson’s superior in CCC, Paul Hazelgrave, contacted him. In an unsolved 1981 attempted […]

The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

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[PDF file]: […] contacted him; and his family were given armed protection for the duration of the manhunt. Prudom had earlier rung Sanderson’s home and told his wife he would kill Sanderson. There was a bizarre coda to the Prudom affair. In September 1982, Sanderson’s superior in CCC, Paul Hazelgrave, contacted him. In an unsolved 1981 attempted […]

Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] experiments; domestic surveillance of antiwar activists; and even covert investigations of national columnist Jack Anderson. Most controversially, as we will soon see, it also oversaw plots to kill foreign heads of state. One of the key Watergate burglars, James McCord, had recently retired from a senior position in the Office of Security.8 For $500 […]

Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

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[PDF file]: […] Books, 2024, £20 Simon Matthews This is a very detailed, complicated account of the attempts made by a UK policeman (John Stalker) to investigate suspected ‘shoot to kill’ murders, carried out in Northern Ireland by the UK security services and/or persons connected with them in the early 80s. The main narrative runs to 417 […]

Phil Shenon – a cruel and shocking twist

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the subject was sparked by an anonymous former Warren Commission attorney who complained that they were not given the full facts, especially about the CIA-Mafia plots to kill Cuban premier Fidel Castro.3 Although a great deal was kept from the Warren Commission, Shenon believes they got it right: the president was killed by one […]