Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)
[…] Serra. (10) Google’s Italian–to-English translation of the Corriere text showed that the original story did not claim that Stasi files showed the KGB told the Bulgarians to kill the Pope at all. As Google’s mechanical translator put it, the key section said: ‘the letters, in which the intelligence agencies of the DDR they ask […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)
[…] go to her own funeral without her purse – or a properly straightened nose. What I must do is what every doctor takes an oath to do. Kill cancer – one of Christ’s covered-up commandments. Primarily because this group desires to kill me. And that is self-defense – and it is the primary law […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)
[…] V.P. Kaznacheyev demonstrated that death could be transmitted using ultraviolet rays, at a distance.(2) In the same year, Robert Pavlita, a Czech engineer, showed how he could kill insects at a distance by psychotronic devices. It has been reported by U.S. intelligence that Pavlita developed two psychotronic weapons — one effective at 320 kilometres, […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
Anne Hessing Cahn Penn State University Press, 1998, $19.95, p/b The ‘Team B’ episode of 1976/7, the subject of this book, which saw a group of the CIA’s critics on the right being given access to the Agency’s raw intelligence data, was one of the key moments in the counter-attack against detente with the … Read more
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
Greg Philo and David Miller Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education, 2001, £16.99 I asked the publisher for this on the basis of the title and the authors: Greg Philo has written many books for the Glasgow University Media Group (Bad News, More Bad News etc.) and David Miller is the author of Don’t Mention the … Read more
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
Stakeknife: Britain’s Secret Agents in Ireland Martin Ingram and Greg Harkin Dublin: The O’Brien Press: 2004, £8.99, p/back Mad Dog: The rise and fall of Johnny Adair and ‘C Company’ David Lister and Hugh Jordan Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2003, £15.99, h/back Stakeknife is a former member’s account of some of the operations of the … Read more