Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
See note (1) This article explores the three pro-European Union propaganda campaigns mounted to date: in 1962-63 to secure public support following Britain’s first application to join the EU; in 1970-71 to prepare the public for accession; and in 1974-75 to ensure continued EU membership in the 1975 Referendum. For simplicity, the term European Union … Read more
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] A pdf version of a 1992 print book containing many declassified documents on the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, including many important CIA documents on this event. National Security Archive The National Security Agency Declassified http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB23/index.html Electronic Briefing Book on the NSA’s foundation and management, providing 15 original documents dating from 1948 to 1998, including: […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
I have been scrutinising in some detail the Curry Report, The Security Service: its problems and organisational adjustments 1908-1945 –– the in-house history of MI5 which was written by John Court (‘Jack’) Curry (1887-?), a senior MI5 officer, during 1944-6. In so doing I have solved one of the great mysteries about Maxwell Knight. […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] foreign affairs’ () and driven by anti-communism and a passionate Zionism. Hounam suggests there was a very tight loop of Johnson confidants notably Walt Rostow (National Security Advisor), neo-con godfather, Democratic Senator Henry ‘Scoop’ Jackson, Arthur Goldberg (UN Ambassador), the mysterious movie moguls Mathilde and Arthur Krim and Israeli Deputy ambassador, Eppie Evron […]
Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
[…] which left little time for the authorities to adequately investigate the allegations – an excuse as feeble as that other establishment cop-out, “in the interests of National Security”. George Terry actually had little to do with the investigation which was carried out by two of his former subordinates: Chief Supt. Gordon Harrison and Chief […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] evidence, the most probable cause of Olsen’s death was homicide and not suicide.(2) This new information suggests that Frank Olsen was murdered because he was considered a security risk to the CIA’s highly sensitive and top secret mind control programmes. The Nuremberg trials revealed how far Nazi Germany had gone in the development of […]
Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££
[…] be what to do about our spooks? A sort of answer is being given in Greece where the (nominally) socialist administration is sacking large numbers of its security personnel. (Daily Telegraph 8 October 1984). With this and Papandreou continuing to make anti-Nato noises, somewhere in the Pentagon the Greek-coup computer model will be getting […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] services – almost nothing – and the post-WW2 geopolitical order, centrally the Cold War and American imperialism. Looking at the reading list for the intelligence and national security component of this course, what struck me was that almost none of its literature existed when I was here. I have read a few of the […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] with the perspective….. that, ultimately, their road to power will be a violent one’. (20) Not only has Brady’s passing reference in the document to the advantageous security aspects of decentralisation to be seen in the context of struggles with the ‘political soldier’ NF group — i.e. answering their arguments — later contributions by […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] section p. 13, September 6, 1994) to write a review of this book. The bit that caught my eye was this: ‘I have little doubt that the security services played a key role in the split in the WRP in 1985 that was to tear the organisation apart. The evidence in the book about […]