Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] were opposed.(9) The government enlisted the assistance of the Information Research Department (IRD). This covert unit, established by the Labour Government in 1948, was financed from the Secret Intelligence Services budget, with close links to MI6. The government’s campaign had three stages. The first involved the dissemination of information to the press and public; […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] terribly cheering to learn from a posting by the National Security Archive (1) that General Pinochet ‘had used multiple aliases and false identification to maintain over 125 secret bank accounts at the Riggs National Bank and eight other financial institutions in the United States.’ Saviour of the nation? Defender of Christianity? Just another brutal, […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] DFS. We find more than twenty such references widely dispersed through the records of at least six government agencies in the U.S.: the FBI, the CIA, the Secret Service, Army Intelligence, Naval Intelligence, the State Department, and the Dallas Police. They are supplemented by still other references to Oswald as ‘Harvey Lee Oswald’, in […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] have gone all of the secrets she shared with JFK. She kept her silence until the end. However, in a recent Channel Four (London) TV documentary series, Secret Lives, in an episode exploring the life of Jackie Kennedy, Lincoln stated that she believed Jackie had affairs prior to the assassination, with Onassis and others, […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] in allowing parliamentarians to develop expertise in particular policy areas and questions whether the Intelligence and Security Committee has helped generate a wider parliamentary understanding of intelligence.(2) Secret histories A forthcoming official history of the Defence Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee (3) (the organ responsible for issuing D-Notices) (4) has had its publication delayed […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] earnest. Upon returning to the Dubai police head-quarters, Amin and Essam were informed that they could no longer conduct field interviews, (apparently at the request of Dubai secret services), and all interviewees (whether witness or suspect) would be invited (not compelled) to headquarters where the police would ask questions on Amin’s behalf. In addition, […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
A guided democracy The following appeared in the Daily Telegraph 23 June 2003. ‘Edward Heath created a secret government propaganda unit to persuade the British people to accept the Common Market. Civil servants were engaged in a dirty tricks department of the Foreign Office to cover up the threat to sovereignty and provide rapid […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] subversion and Blair was rising to the higher ranks of the Labour Party.’ The spook-wise We’ve got another MP who takes a serious interest in the British secret state. In the past we have had MPs who had been secret servants (mostly Conservative) and a few Labour MPs who took a temporary interest. Almost […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] as ‘chairman of the defence committee of the Western European Union.’. This is dubious for two reasons. In the first place, I doubt very much that anything secret (and what is a low-level secret?) was given to a body as insignificant as the defence committee of the Western European Union, which in Edwards’ day, […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] deployed against terrorists at home’. To explain covert operations which occurred before 1976 the authors produce an undercover unit ’14th Intelligence’, whose existence, they claim, ‘has remained secret until revealed to the authors during their research’. 14t Int. was allegedly formed in 1972 when the Army established its own ‘secret intelligence-gathering unit….. known as […]
