The corporate ex-spook business

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] security companies, give or take a few ex-KGB bods, are all Anglo-Saxon, with personnel institutionalised by specific national agendas, including the commercial. This not only conditions a mind set, which includes belief in racial and other dominance, but leaves them unable to cope in a market-place where: a) the ‘prestige’ (for want of another […]

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Obituaries

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] with the dark side of American history will be missed by senior colleagues and younger protégés alike. Yes, ‘colorful’ and ‘unforgettable’ are words that come instantly to mind, but ‘committed’ is more important, and ‘permanent state of indignation’ is best of all. Ace Hayes was a whirlwind, and his moral outrage could suck you […]

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Two views of Dorril: MI6: Fifty years of Special Operations

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] not only on the Labour Movement and his former allies, but in the words of his former wife Margaret, has sold his soul to the devil. Never mind, that ghastly conservative creep Blair tells us we should be proud of our MI6 boys and girls for they give us a cutting edge over the […]

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A conversation with Peter Dale Scott

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

[…] of ’63. RR: Bobby was an election winner. PDS: Put it this way: Johnson was an election loser. And the way the American system works they don’t mind if somebody’s going to lose because they usually control the other guy too. But the Kennedys were never exactly controllable because they had so much money […]

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Kitson revisited

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

The publication of Frank Kitson’s Low Intensity Operations in 1971 created a storm on the left.(1) An influential British army officer with considerable experience of colonial warfare was advocating that the army prepare for counterinsurgency operations at home. As far as Kitson was concerned there was a serious danger of revolutionary disturbance in Britain in … Read more

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Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] ‘community policing’. And this is free from GLC Police Committee DG/PCS/602 County Hall, London SE1 7BP Intelligence/Parapolitics October 1984. This Paris-based journal goes on getting better. ( Mind you we’ve only seen a few editions). The mixture of detailed summaries of articles from the world’s press plus reprints of especially notable pieces is very […]

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PR, espionage and language

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] what the British government was doing about the problem. The Hansards automatically went world-wide to the relevant ministers in their governments. As a result, and keeping in mind this is a false example, senior health professionals overseas, supported by the relevant minister, would be in a position to go to their governments pointing out […]

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Feedback

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] acclaim. To be fair, this was not the book’s subject, anyway. But reference to Lancaster, which I attended as a mature student from 1969-72, put me in mind of the rumours one heard about the politics department there, the postgrad. students who went off for wargaming at Aberystwyth, and the controversy aroused by proposals […]

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Ribbontrop Blair

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] the motive was regime change; what happened behind the scenes over the second security council resolution; and the still unexplained reason for Lord Goldsmith’s quick change of mind culminating in his advice that starting the war was legal even without UN backing.’ Berlins speculated: ‘Even more shocking, if true, is the allegation that, many […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

On reaching 50 Reaching 50 issues is something. More or less than I hoped? Obviously, it never occurred to me twenty plus years ago that I would still be doing this now. But I never had any hopes beyond simply selling enough copies to keep producing it (and maybe, one day, producing an issue which […]

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