The CIA: A history of torture

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] law and order Home Secretary such as John Reid, arrested and expelled from the country, but are instead welcome guests, mixing freely with both New Labour and Conservative politicians as well as maintaining an intimate relationship with Britain’s own security services.(3) The CIA’s role in the overthrow of governments is well-known, beginning with the […]

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Late breaking news on Clay Shaw’s United Kingdom contacts

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] dating from, I would guess, the early 1930s. When the Jansons sold their apartment in the late 1960s it was purchased by Sir Alec Douglas-Home, the former Conservative Prime Minister. The Jansons also sold their house in Cowes and they now live in the west of England. Olwen Janson told me the following. The […]

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Web update

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

Thanks again to Terry Hanstock and David Turner for contributions. Although all URLs are checked shortly before publication, occasionally websites unaccountably disappear. Contributions, comments and info welcome – my email address is Secrecy, censorship FOI and released records Freedom of Information Draft Bill http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/foi/dfoibill.htm Link to the draft FOI Bill (May 1999) and FOI … Read more

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The fiction of the state: The Paris Review and the invisible world of American letters

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] editors’. A deafening silence In late fall of 2003, I went into New York to have a dinner meeting with Taki and Scott McConnell of The American Conservative to discuss my proposed article on Plimpton and the PR, to be titled, ‘An American In Paris’. () The article, a lean and to the point […]

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The Rich At Play: Foxhunting, land ownership and the ‘Countryside Alliance’

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

Revolutions Per Minute number 9 BCM Box 3328, London WC1N 3XX 70pp., £4 Online at http://www.red-star-research.org.uk/rap/rapframe.html There is a very good Website, www.red-star-research.org.uk, which is the best single source of information on the Blair government, its financial supporters and networks. This pamphlet is a kind of spin-off from that site – the previous Revolutions … Read more

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Brief Notes on the Political Importance of Secret Societies (Part 2)

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] Others who supported Goleniewski’s lineage included the John Birch Society (through its journal American Opinion), the Philadelphia-based lay Catholic Order of the Carmelites (an anti-communist organisation), the conservative journalist Guy Richards, the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, and the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights of […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] Bunyan’s been doing this work for over twenty years, a long time to be pissing into the wind. In Defence of The Party: The Secret State, the Conservative Party and dirty tricks Colin Challen and Mike Hughes £3.95 from Medium Publishing, 1 Main Street, East Ardsley, Wakefield WF3 2AE This is a sixty-five page, […]

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A short history of Lobster

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[…] Steve, and, in publishing it, we breached the Official Secrets Act in a big way. But apart from being denounced in the House of Commons by a Conservative MP – who was among those listed – nothing happened. Evidently the British state had learned the lesson that prosecution merely makes those prosecuted the subject […]

The United States and the overthrow of Sukarno, 1965-67

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] to have gone even farther, terrifying both the left and the right with the fear of incipient slaughter by their enemies. Thus militant trade-unionists as well as conservative generals in Chile received small cards printed with the ominous words Djakarta se acerca (Jakarta is approaching). (103) This is a model destabilization plan — to […]

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Cyberspace Wars: Microprocessing vs. Big Brother

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] of every left-wing group in the country. The right, he says, needed to match the left’s ability to mobilize on short notice and track the activities of conservative Americans. ‘The radical left,’ he claims, ‘in this country has an incredible, computer-connected network that has enormous files connected with them.'(12) Singlaub swallowed someone’s line the […]

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