Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] mismanagement. As a result, they are off-loading ever more responsibility onto outside ‘consultants’. This is also what appears to be happening in espionage. It is a relatively new development and, presumably, runs parallel to traditional use of outside contractors for deniable operations. Sarbanes-Oxley is designed to prevent another Enron and maximise shareholder values. (As […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] left, the right and the state. But, boy, some of it is hard work. There is a 26-page article with the subtitle, ‘The Curious Case of the New Communist Party, Searchlight and the Nazi honeytrap….(run by a hermaphrodite)’, which is all but unintelligible to me because, as with his pamphlets, the information is obscured […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] her correctly. I understand C. David Heyman is updating his monumental biography, A Woman Named Jackie (1989), in the wake of Jackie’s death and a lot of new information is to be included, much of which he could not publish while she was alive. Perhaps he’ll give us the full story. Perhaps he’ll also […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] discussion of ‘espionage’ on only two occasions:(10) the first broadcast half-way through the second series,(11) the other launching the third series,(12) and timed to coincide with a new Official Secrets Act. A possibly more reliable guide as to what principles drove our ‘bad’ editorial judgement is an internal memo I wrote in 1988 for […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] would key elements in the nuclear military-industrial complex engage in such surveillance activity? It should be remembered that in 1983-84 there was the strong possibility of a new PWR programme in the UK, and the financial and political benefits to the Thatcherites and their US allies are easy to understand. It is certainly feasible […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] industry and included laser systems from TRW and Martin-Merietta and RF weapons from Rockwell and Hughes. In America, as the arms industry gets rolling in a promising new field, it is accompanied by the legitimation process. Harlan Girard sent me a copy of a report of ‘An Independent Task Force’ sponsored by the Council […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] and Gerard Kemp. They report the basics of the piece – the tip-off, the ID on Horn, Horn’s denial (but not Horn’s name) – then add some new pieces. First they report the (unnamed) Horn commenting on a previous visitor asking the same questions (presumably the visit of McKittrick). This visitor, says Horn, asked […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] newsletter, Intelligence Online (edition 531, 10 September) contained details of increases expected in European R&D expenditures in the security sector. There was an odd entry in the new European system. Alongside all the funny-sounding private equity-backed innovation companies was the Sussex Police Authority, developing the Petra.net system for creating a ‘genuine community of end […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] interest, thereby by-passing democracy. It clarifies how the European Roundtable of Industrialists (ERT) in particular performs an agenda-setting role, resulting in the prioritisation by the EU of new policies benefitting transnational corporations (TNCs). This is evident in plans for ‘completing the internal market’, which will mean deregulating and liberalizing a number of sectors such […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] does Gordon Brown understand British economic history? Or: does he understand economic politics? In any case, I would have been asking a question to which I k new the answer. Brown knows little of British economic history: he demonstrated this when he gave away control of interest rates to the Bank of England on […]
