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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] government contracts from 2004 to 2006. Not bad, considering the total value of contracts for that period came to $25 billion.(18) The Human Rights First report Private security contractors at war: ending the culture of impunity argues that the US Department of Justice’s ‘systematic failure to hold private security contractors operating in Iraq and […]

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The big one? 9:11 Revealed. Challenging the facts behind the War on Terror

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] ‘the sceptics’.(1) The official world in the US knew it was al-Qaeda without needing to investigate. Bin Laden had been near or at the top of the security agenda in the US for a decade; his desire to attack America had been on lots of official bits of paper. Sections of the US security […]

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Web Update

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: […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] frustrate the closures. No reference is made to bringing company or country down. In the intervening twenty years Edwardes’ memory has gilded the lily. Spook think The Security Service mind is a wonderful thing. To it a potential risk is the same as an actual risk. Thus we discover that Lord Bethell, a Conservative […]

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Friends of the British Secret State

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] command a massive revenge attack by the PLO on Israel and her allies.” May 8th 1988, Sunday Express, Massie tells us that “Mrs Thatcher has given the security services two months to crack down on IRA killer squads on the Continent … Mrs Thatcher, through her Security Coordinator, Sir Colin Figures, has issued unprecedented […]

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Thinking about the Falklands

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[…] series of diplomatic and strategic moves which were happening in the South Atlantic before and at the time of the Falklands War. “The Politics of South Atlantic Security: a survey of proposals for a South Atlantic Treaty Organisation” looked at the task of “relating western concerns for South Atlantic security to the interests and […]

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Curried Knight: Maxwell Knight and the MI5 in-house history

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. […]

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Following in Uncle Sam’s dirty footsteps: chemical and biological warfare testing in the UK

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 […]

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Spinning the European Union: pro-European propaganda campaigns in the British media

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

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Robert Kennedy and the Middle East connection

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 […]

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