Brief Notes on the Political Importance of Secret Societies (Part 2)

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

See also Part 1 in Lobster 5 United States Anna Anderson was not the only Anastasia claimant; her chief rival in the United States was Mrs Eugenia Smith. Smith’s claims, although considered shaky by the best scholars, were powerfully supported by the testimony of one Michael M. Goleniewski, who hailed from Poland yet claimed to … Read more

Systemic Corruption, Systemic Solutions

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

Gregory Palast is the journalist who broke the ‘cash for access’ story in The Observer. Here is the text of a letter he wrote on August 18 1999 to the Committee on Standards in Public Life, the Neill Committee, by way of a preface and request to give oral evidence to that committee. My recommendations … Read more

First supplement to ‘A Who’s Who of the British Secret State’

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) Spooks (Lobster 22) The official response to the ‘Who’s who’ Lobster special … Read more

Morningside Mata Haris: How MI6 deceived Scotland’s great and good

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

Douglas Macleod Edinburgh: Birlinn; £9.99, p/b <www.birlinn.co.uk>   Twenty years ago, before the current torrent of information about ‘the secret world of intelligence’, we were scratching about looking for clues to our secret history. One was given in the John Loftus book The Belarus Secret (Penguin 1983) which contained a single reference to the Scottish … Read more

Into the Whitehall maw

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

1: The Investigatory Powers Tribunal Malcolm Kennedy (1) complained to the recently established Investigatory Powers Tribunal because he believes his telecommunications are being monitored and interfered with, and his persistent attempts to seek answers have led to brick walls and confusion. His case is currently proceeding. (2) But concerns have already been raised about the … Read more

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

Acid: the secret history of LSD

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Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

David Black, Vision, London, 1998, £9.99 pb I enjoyed this book hugely, and I’d recommend it to anyone remotely interested in the politics of psychedelia – apart from anything else, there are stories here you almost certainly won’t have heard. However, overall it aspires to more than it can deliver. As the title implies, the … Read more

The Assassination of John Kennedy: An Alternative Hypothesis

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

In this essay I offer some informed speculation on the assassination of John Kennedy. I have called this a new hypothesis, but in fact it is the elaboration of a hunch about the case – but an interesting hunch, I think. I take as proven that there was a conspiracy to murder Kennedy and a … Read more

Willy Brandt: the “Good German”

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

One neglected aspect of the plotting against Harold Wilson and the Labour Governments of the 1970s was the fact that it took place while the social democrat governments of Australia, New Zealand and West Germany — and possibly Canada — were also being subjected to destabilisation campaigns, with the some of the same characters playing … Read more

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