A short history of Lobster

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[…] career. And new contributors appeared: Dr Larry O’Hara; Alex Cox (another Kennedy assassination buff); Andrew Rosthorn; John Newsinger; Tom Easton; the late Corinne Souza (who wrote about SIS which had employed her Iraqi father); Simon Matthews; John Burnes and Dr T P Wilkinson, to name the most prolific. Regular early contributors were Jane Affleck […]

Fifth Column. New directions for parapolitics: investigating the trans-national security elite

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] no power in the West or in the elites that are allied to the West that is now not wedded to some variation of the inevitability/desirability the sis. The security services of the West are now trained to see anti-globalisers, nationalists and socialists as all equal threats to security. They may often wear suits […]

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

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] the years when Crozier was engaged full-time in psychological operations, running a large network in the UK. Forum World Features in which, ‘with the full agreement of SIS would deal directly with CIA personnel’ (p. 71), was succeeded by the Institute for the Study of Conflict. After Sir Dennis Greenhill, Permanent Under-Secretary at the […]

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Lobster Issue 39: Contents

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] alleged US use of chemical weapons during ‘Desert Storm’. Next issue, David: no room in this one. The appearance of Stephen Dorril’s massive and impressive book on SIS — reviewed below – set me thinking about the direction Lobster has taken. When Lobster began in 1983 there seemed every point in collecting and publishing […]

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Iraq

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] about the source or his ‘intelligence’. As Lord Butler commented dryly in his report: ‘It would have been more appropriate for senior managers in the DIS and SIS to have made arrangements for the intelligence to be shown to DIS experts rather than making their own judgements on its significance’. (7) By keeping Jones […]

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Defending the Realm: MI5 and the Shayler Affair

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] of his in Punch – issue 93 in the present, post Al Fayed, takeover series – he comments on the hypocrisy of his persecution while the former SIS officer with the pseudonym Alan Judd, gets access to the diary of early MI6 chief Mansfield Cummings: ‘I know Alan Judd’s real name, but I can’t […]

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Enduring Freedom

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] with these key questions: how is it that the super-rationalist West, with all of the massive resources of the CIA, TIARA (Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities) and SIS, were completely unable to stop a few guys with Stanley knives flying jet planes into the World Trade Centre? How have the security and intelligence forces […]

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Splinter Factor update

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

When I commented on the lack of supporting material for the Operation Splinter Factor the sis (in issue 22), I somehow managed to omit the account of it in William Blum’s The CIA: a forgotten history (Zed, London 1986) pp. 59-61. But that is taken entirely from Stewart Steven’s book and his sources. To […]

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Sources: Roundtable. U.N. Lockerbie, etc

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] its personnel and their positions of influence in the US administration, NGOs, media, Congress and so forth. But they do it within the framework of Quigley’s the sis on the Round Table – hence their name. This is the primary Quigley site in the Web as far as I know. (http://www. geocities. com/CapitolHill/2807) Much […]

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Contemporary British History 1931-61: politics and the limits of policy

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] in death: the post-war survival of the Special Operations Executive, 1945-51′. Aldrich shows how, despite the organisation’s formal demise, sections of SOE survived to be absorbed into SIS to play a part in the anti-Soviet operations of the early years of Cold War 1 — the small-scale British version of the conversion of the […]

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