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[…] in the foreword, that in 1965 he was asked by a CIA officer if he would ‘volunteer’ to kill Fitzer. The CIA officer said Pitzer was a spy, a traitor. Marvin declined – but only because the CIA officer wanted it done in the US: Marvin wouldn’t kill at home, only overseas. (To my […]

Divine Rascal: On the Trail of LSD’s Cosmic Courier, Michael Hollingshead by Andy Roberts

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] so Hollingshead’s antics are not out of keeping with such an approach. On the other hand, he was never officer material and clearly didn’t operate as a spy or agent in any conventional sense. He was far too unreliable a character. As well as having a prodigious appetite for alcohol and a wide range […]

Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] anniversary. See . 8 Personally, I adhere to the adage that in intelligence ‘there is no such thing as coincidence’ (© John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy). 9 Oxford: OUP, 11 March 2021 or . 10 
 3 that collusion was involved in the attack. What other possible evidence does Taylor think should […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a rapport with Frank Olson during a number of subsequent visits Frank Olson made to Britain. Dr. Sargant remarked that ‘he was just like any other CIA spy, using our secret airfields to come and go.’ Sargant told Thomas he could publish what he was saying, but only after his death. He went on […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] Taylor is also cheap with the facts when he recounts the time that Brendan Duddy was interrogated by the IRA because they thought he was a British spy. He says: McGuinness suspected Brendan might be playing a double game as a suspected British spy. Shortly afterwards, four senior IRA men arrived at Brendan’s house, […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] Taylor is also cheap with the facts when he recounts the time that Brendan Duddy was interrogated by the IRA because they thought he was a British spy. He says: McGuinness suspected Brendan might be playing a double game as a suspected British spy. Shortly afterwards, four senior IRA men arrived at Brendan’s house, […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of 1156 mph, a range of 2000 miles, weighs 13.8 tons and costs $102m each. 9 See The Sunday Times 13 April 2014, ‘Keep it quiet: RAF spy planes fail safety rules’ at . Ironically one of the reasons given for dumping the Nimrod programme in 2010 was that the aircraft wasn’t safe. The […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] in the foreword, that in 1965 he was asked by a CIA officer if he would ‘volunteer’ to kill Fitzer. The CIA officer said Pitzer was a spy, a traitor. Marvin declined – but only because the CIA officer wanted it done in the US: Marvin wouldn’t kill at home, only overseas. (To my […]

Secrecy in Britain

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] them they should be returned to the National Archives. This leads to some peculiar situations. A contact of mine was researching a book on a particular Soviet spy. He found an interesting document written by said spy in a file at the National Archives. It was 12 pages – he copied 6 pages and […]

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