Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] trying to keep buried here, I missed them. But I’m probably suffering from Secrecy Fatigue. Ever since Peter Wright’s Spycatcher every British publisher has tried to market spy books as “the book they tried to ban’. Alas, far from running the risk of breaking the Official Secrets Act, the only risk you run reading […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] a valuable source of information on US intelligence in particular, and the post-war US empire in general, with contributors such as John Kelly, former editor of Counter Spy, Ralph McGehee, Lester Coleman and David McMichael. With Covert Action Quarterly now with a much wider agenda than covert action, (1) Unclassified is now one of […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] of guest movements, enabling the photographers to be in position to snatch pictures of the celebrities.'(53) Richard Tomlinson believed that he was an MI6 informer paid to spy on Diana and Dodi. Other sources claim that Paul was also a Mossad agent and an informant for the French foreign intelligence service. As Head of […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] what was then called the ‘silicon chip’. And Alec Guinness kept the nation spellbound with the television version of John le Carré’s 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It depicted the tempting of senior UK espionage moguls with a one-off, spectacular solution to Secret Britain’s ills, a Soviet super-spy who would get us back […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] of the George Bush address found in the address book of CIA agent George de Morenschildt, the control agent for Lee Harvey Oswald? DeMorenschildt had been a spy for the OSS in German intelligence, and some have speculated that he may also have been Bush’s CIA handler’. DeMorenschildt’s role with the CIA or ‘handling’ […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
Mark Felt is ‘Deep Throat’. Bob Woodward says so, and his word is law in this particular arena. No matter that Woodward had a dozen sources, some of whom may have been more important than Throat himself. The point is that ‘Throat’ is anyone Woodward says he is, and he says he is Felt. In […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets’, The Sunday Times, 6 January 2008, Sunday Times ,‘FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft’, 20 January 2008, and ‘Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe’, 27 January 2008, In an interview with antiwar.com’s Scott Horton – go to for the mp3 file. Alternatively a full transcript is available here: […]
Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££
[…] working for those dailies would care to explain. CIA in Northern Ireland The Irish Republic’s Military Intelligence (G.2) discovered that the CIA were behind a plot to spy on loyalist paramilitary groups. (Sunday News 27th November 1983) Lyn Macrey, who does welfare work for UDA prisoners, was approached by ‘The Hettinger Institute’, a phoney […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] entire Sandinista connection was a US intelligence fabrication. Particularly suspicious is the role of Federico Vaughn, the supposed Sandinista official, who appears to have been a US spy all along. An AP dispatch (Omaha World-Herald, 7-29-88) disclosed that subcommittee staffers called Vaughn’s phone number in Managua and spoke to a “domestic employee” who said […]