Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] files. As the World War II era clerks retired from government service during the late 1960s and 1970s, they took with them the institutional memory of Top Secret operations which had been conducted only twenty years previously. With some chagrin, a CIA official has confided that the institutional memory of one section of the […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] in almost any other sector of the trade union movement’. The report recommended that ‘Departments should have the right in respect of establishments or staff employed on secret work to deny access to or to refuse to negotiate with trade union officials whom they had reason to believe were Communists.’ This definition was extended […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] slipped the drug; later, mescaline was combined with hypnosis. (8) After the war, a number of Nazi chemical warfare specialists went on to work for the American secret services. These scientists included Karl Tauboeck, whose attempts to find a workable ‘truth serum’ provided the CIA with a wealth of data — data derived, ultimately, […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] Neither book takes on board the fact that the emigres used were largely ex-nazi collaborators, or how MI6 came to be involved with such people. The big secret that Philby and the other defectors took with them was the involvement of MI6, through Ellis and Menzies, with these proto-fascists before, during and after the […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] the San Jose Mercury News by Gary Webb) of connections between CIA and the Contras in cocaine trafficking in the US’ (www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/october96/crack_contra_11-1.html) In November 2000 over 16,000 secret US records on the Pinochet dictatorship and Washington’s role in the overthrow of Allende were released, including CIA documents recording US covert operations between 1968 and […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] and gooey stuff and slippery stuff – conceals the real agenda, the development of various form of energy weapons. There was a big conference – billed ‘ secret US only’ – in June this year, a ‘Detailed review of directed energy warfare’. The final session consisted of presentations of work in progress within the […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
Old spooks’ tales John Loftus is probably best known in this country for his The Belarus Secret (Penguin 1983). His latest, The Secret War against the Jews, contains the largest number of new allegations, and alleged revelations about the post-war era, of any book I have read. However, many of these new claims are […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] prime minister, and particularly his more socialist colleagues, influenced by their wartime encounters with MI5 officers, suspected the service’s activities were uncontrolled. MI5, they complained, was a secret conservative group with a historic mission to destabilise the Left.(1) Their fear of surveillance by the secret police required that MI5’s new director should not be […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] Chamberlain. (1) ‘IPG had sought at every level of government to convince the governments of France, Italy, Austria and Spain that, despite official pronouncements, Britain’s actual if secret foreign policy was to keep out of all European conflicts in order to give a free hand to Hitler and Mussolini against the Soviet Union.’ (2) […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] of an American pilot through the static on the airport radio saying, ‘I’ve gotta come in for more ammunition. I can’t fly around here without more ammunition.’ Secret war in Ethiopia What I had witnessed was Nixon’s secret war in Ethiopia to defend Hails Sellassie from the Tigre Liberation Front and the Eritrean Liberation […]