It’s all Jacques to me

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] LSE would be a good example. This closes off a lot of debate about the penetration of business interests and usually comes with a dismissal of C. Wright Mills’ work, falling back on a pluralist version of events: what you see is what you get. But we see so little actual decision-making and the […]

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The View From MI5

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] shown” again). This, I presume, is a reference to the “5th man” story which surfaced in 1986 during the early fall-out and disinformation coming from the Peter Wright case in Australia and must be related, based upon Mr Heath’s appointment of Rothschild to head of the Central Policy Review Staff (the “think tank”). Heath […]

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A Game of Moles: the Deceptions of an MI6 Officer

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] one. They tried to suppress this (or was that also marketing bullshit?) — presumably for the handful of pages in which Bristow expresses his support for Peter Wright and (inconclusively) discusses Burgess, Philby, Blunt, Thomas Harris etc etc. For Bristow knew them all and harbours suspicions about Guy Liddell, Roger Hollis and David Footman. […]

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Feedback

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] people working for Soviet intelligence, leads not only to unscholarly work but to nasty witch hunts. What first drew my attention to this trend was when Peter Wright came out with his accusation about Sir Roger Hollis. Chapman Pincher was wheeled out to back up the claim that Hollis had been recruited to Soviet […]

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Crozier country: Free Agent: the unseen war 1941-1991

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] was argued, could be left to the police Special Branch) and too little to domestic subversion.’ This is the exact opposite of the picture given by Peter Wright on p. 359 of Spycatcher, of the 1970s expansion of the counter-subversive F-branch at the expense of counter-espionage K branch. But there are lots of things […]

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Contents

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

Editorially First, most important, our thanks to those Lobster subscribers who responded to our appeal for money. Your response, and a bit of ‘consulting’ with Fleet St. on the content of Lobster 11, has halved our debts. We shall survive. It is tempting to say something about the developing crisis re the Wilson-MI5 story (Lobstergate?). […]

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British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] 1ST SEC WASHINGTON 1968 1ST SEC FCO, VISITED MALTA, MEMBER OF FLUENCY COMMITTEE ONE OF THE ‘YOUNG TURKS’ NOW RETIRED. HAS WRITTEN FOR ENCOUNTER. SUPPORTER OF PETER WRIGHT AND INFORMANT TO CHAPMAN PINCHER DENNISON, ALISTAIR ALEXANDER GUTHRIE CMG (1941) CBE (33) B 1.12.1881, D 1.1.61 GCHQ 1914 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE DEPT 1921 FO GCCS 1939 […]

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A Century of Spin

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] discussing the creation of the ‘architecture’ of the global economy by groups such as the elite planners of the 1920s? This is power analysis. This is C. Wright Mills or William Domhoff de nos jours. They trace the antecedents of the modern corporate-dominated world back to three elements in the 1920s: the beginnings of […]

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The death of Diana: an update

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] for Diana after Paris inquiry’, International Herald Tribune 11 September 1997, p.10. Natalie Martin, ‘Diana inquest Coroner frustrated by limited powers’ Press Association 12 October 1997; Stephen Wright, ‘Coroner: inquest on Diana a waste of time’, Daily Mail 13 October 1997, pp.1, 5. The law relating to deaths abroad is based on the judgement […]

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The influence of intelligence services on the British left

Lobster Issue

[…] of used notes were transferred from the Soviet Embassy to the party. But the point is this: MI5 knew about this as soon as it started. Peter Wright told us so in Spycatcher, several years before messers Falber and Matthews of the CPGB Central Committee at the time confessed. And MI5 chose to let […]

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