Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] Middle Eastern oil and the need for the installation and maintenance of compliant domestic regimes? There is a strange non-sequitur in the first chapter where a ‘ secret’ official British policy document from 1958 relating to the Middle East is immediately followed by ‘Thus, shortly after the First World War, turning their eyes towards […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] and keep quiet about it. But we should go a little way beyond that. Firstly, very large scale secrets have been kept. Most obvious is the Ultra secret, the British breaking of the German Enigma machine, an enormous secret, which was kept by hundreds and perhaps thousands of people between 1941 and J.C. Masterman’s […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] research, notably: what overall political strategy the significant British fascist groups were pursuing, and how this intersected with more orthodox political forces — including elements of the secret state. By comparison with equivalents abroad, British fascists have been rather tame, but this should not cause us to forget that in the 1970s they blazed […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] per se. The Kennedys had too many of their own secrets at risk. In 1963 the knowledge of John Kennedy’s sexual promiscuity was still largely an insider’s secret — as was the family’s various links to the mafia, from Joe Kennedy’s bootlegging days to the mob’s assistance in the election of 1960. A decent […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] escape organisation controlled by MI6. Towards the end of the war he was involved with a sub-section called IS9(WEA) attached to SHAEF, a section some called ‘another secret army’. It included future Conservative MPs Maurice McMillan and Peter Baker. Shortly after the war Neave used his legal training at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] we know of. Since none of the states involved have held really serious inquiries serious meaning subpoena powers and the threat of imprisonment into the secret organisation revealed to have been in their midst for 40 years, we will never know what was actually going on. What we do know is bad […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] policy for much of the first half of this century. The inner core of this group (which I will refer to as the Round Table), was a secret society founded by Cecil Rhodes. Using Rhodes’ money, this group set up the Round Table groups in then British Dominions; the Council on Foreign Relations in […]
Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££
[…] foreign policy for much of the first half of this century. The inner core of the group (which I will refer to as the Round Table), a secret society set up by Cecil Rhodes, using Rhodes’ money, set up the Round Table groups in the then British Dominions, the Council on Foreign Relations in […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] is the long-running controversy about the so-called MAJESTIC papers, documents apparently leaked to the UFO researcher William Moore in the 1980s, purporting to come from a super- secret US government committee of the 1950s which was handling the UFO issue at the time under the codename MAJESTIC. Cannon noticed a report in the Electronic […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] inform every account, however, is the contrast between Orwell’s supposed status as a ‘socialist icon’ and his informing on other left-wing writers to a department of the secret state. Both sides of this equation need examination. Part of the problem is the notion of Orwell as a ‘socialist icon’, some sort of left-wing ‘St […]
