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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] Cold War Legacy http://www.webcom.com/~pinknoiz/coldwar/index.html Extract from Interim Report of the Advisory C’tee on Human Radiation Experiments; plutonium expts; gas warfare tests on armed forces personnel; Microwaves and Mind Control – Bank Frauds and Covert Operations. Intelligence Internet Uplink http://ionet.net/%7Eeverett/intel.html Links to intelligence-related websites. eg Sources e-journal (www.dso.com/cgi-bin/webc/home.html) ‘Intelligence ejournal delivers in-depth intelligence on issues […]

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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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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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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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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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MI5: New Threats for Old? Turning up the Heat: MI5 after the Cold War

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] writing the Security Service had not quite taken over all the areas they have set their minds on. Apparently with the model of the FBI’s franchise in mind – subversion, terrorism, espionage and federal crime – Mrs Rimington is pitching to take over part of the police’s crime franchise. She offers MI5’s ‘distinctive role…..the […]

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Northern Ireland Act 1974

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] more to boost support for those pursuing a violent solution for Northern Ireland than anything that they could have done themselves. There is no doubt in my mind that the Royal Ulster Constabulary had a shoot-to-kill policy. That has been successfully covered up, but it came close to exposure when Mr. John Stalker was […]

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The Big C: Further notes on ‘conspiracy’

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] to an interview with Jonathan Vankin, author of what sounds like a kind of compendium of conspiracies and conspiracy theories, Conspiracies, Cover-ups and Crimes: Political Manipulation and Mind Control in America (Paragon Books). Vankin offered this: ‘The accepted paradigm — the established view that the conspiracy theorists are struggling to overthrow — might be […]

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An Incorrect Political Memoir

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy (New York: Birch Lane Press, 1992), offers unique perspectives based on his own experiences in the Pentagon. And never mind that no one else offered to reprint Prouty’s book. Berlet’s point is that Prouty should not have given his good name to Liberty Lobby. And once […]

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