Gareth Llewellyn, CSIS and the Canadian stasi

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] Stephen Harper, our Prime Minister, was used by CSIS as an operative against me previously in 1988, at a time when CSIS thought I was a neo- Nazi and a South African agent. After learning that I knew about Harper (it shouldn’t have been much of a surprise), CSIS deemed me a security risk […]

Back to the future (again)

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] nothing. Initially they lacked a political angle. This arrived when the Socialist Workers Party (always on the look-out for campaigns they could take over) launched the Anti- Nazi League in 1977, scooping up RAR in the process. Peter Hain became a prominent supporter at this point,6 and Peter Jenner too, another very obvious overhang […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Sally Walker, Garrick Alder and Nick Must for their work on this issue of Lobster. *new* The CIA and LSD There have been occasional hints in these pages that the psychedelic explosion in the USA and Western Europe in the ‘60s and early ‘70s might have […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Sally Walker, Garrick Alder and Nick Must for their work on this issue of Lobster. *new* The CIA and LSD There have been occasional hints in these pages that the psychedelic explosion in the USA and Western Europe in the ‘60s and early ‘70s might have […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] CARR) captured my attention because, with more than a passing interest in post-war British fascism (my PhD subject the National Front 1986-90 and I have analysed Neo- Nazi group Combat 18), I was perturbed at the variable quality of his expert academic testimony in the now concluded trials involving both members/alleged members of the […]

Trump, the US Military and the American Empire

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: Trump, the US Military and the American Empire Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos Peter Bergen New York: Penguin Press, 2019 Holding the Line: Inside Trump’s Pentagon with Secretary Mattis Guy M. Snodgrass New York: Sentinel (Penguin Random House), 2019 The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies Michael […]

Arnhem 65 years on

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] World War, we can expect a round of reminders as the dwindling band of veterans gathers to mark the sacrifices their comrades made in the defeat of Nazi Germany. But is it too much to hope as The Very Best of Vera Lynn goes on sale that we might experience a little more than […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: Andrew Rosthorn Olivia Jayne Frank, alias Ruth Mayer, Ruth Alison Peacock, Rebekah Stern, Joanne Olivia Gold and Olivia Jayne Hart, a transgender spy for the Mossad, MI5 and MI6, died of pneumonia and kidney failure in the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital on September 11, 2023, 67 years after her birth at Crumpsall Hospital in Manchester. She […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue

[PDF file]: Andrew Rosthorn Olivia Jayne Frank, alias Ruth Mayer, Ruth Alison Peacock, Rebekah Stern, Joanne Olivia Gold and Olivia Jayne Hart, a transgender spy for the Mossad, MI5 and MI6, died of pneumonia and kidney failure in the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital on September 11, 2023, 67 years after her birth at Crumpsall Hospital in Manchester. She […]

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