Spooks. Hollis. Tomlinson

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] star chamber where he wasn’t allowed to call his own witnesses, cross-examine anyone or to be legally represented.’ In letters to the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee and John Wadham of Liberty, who has been acting for him, Tomlinson alleged that SIS planned to assassinate the Serb leader Slobodan Milosevich in 1992 […]

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Plotting for Peace and War

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] of fading aristocrats and eccentric M.Ps or forces which were much more powerfully rooted in the structure of the British State? What was their relationship with the security and intelligence services? Why did Churchill feel the need to have his own intelligence adviser, Sir Desmond Morton? Costello seems to believe that the pro-appeasement faction […]

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Lockerbie, the octopus and the Maltese double cross

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] begun to reveal one of the ugliest political corruptions of recent times. This Byzantine tale is further evidence of just how powerful and ruthless the American-led international security apparatus — the ‘octopus’ — has become. From the start there have been many awkward and unanswered questions about the Lockerbie affair. Why were the widely-signalled […]

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KAL 007: 16 Years Later

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] soon revealed (and confirmed years later in Alvin Snyder’s 1995 book, Warriors of Disinformation), that the first official transcript of Soviet air-to-ground communications distributed by our National Security Agency (NSA) had been purged of the Soviet fighter pilot’s declaration to his controller, ‘Now I will try my cannons .’ Axed also by our NSA, […]

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Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s

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Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] solo work Dorril has firmly imposed his grip on a wealth of facts which reaffirm his place as one of Britain’s leading exhumers of the modern ‘ security and intelligence community’. Whilst some of the earlier chapters do go over old ground, the later chapters tread into so far uncharted areas. This new ground, […]

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In Brief

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] range from the rear – i.e. not by Sirhan, who was in front. The assassin was almost certainly a man called Eugene Thane Cesar, dressed as a security guard, standing just behind Kennedy. Committee For A Community of Democracy New group mentioned in passing in Guardian 17th January 1984. Anyone seen other references, details […]

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Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] the BAP, Gloria Craig. Twenty-six years in the Ministry of Defence when Robertson became New Labour Defence Secretary in 1997, she is now its director of general security and safety. Her former MoD colleague, Jonathan Day, moved with Robertson to NATO HQ in Brussels to become director of his private office. He was signed […]

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French vendetta: from Rainbow Warrior to the Iranian hostages deal

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] (up til 1982, SDECE: Service de Documentation Exterieure et de Contre-Espionnage), reining in a counter-espionage division that had clashed frequently in the past with the French internal security agencies, and redefining the renamed service’s role as an exclusively overseas one. (But see below re Mazurier…) Marion also centralised the DGSE around his General Directorate […]

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Enemies of the State

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] and Gerry Gable. The reader is invited to accept that Murray has undergone a political conversion and we are offered, as evidence, ‘a sensational expose of the security services’. Unfortunately, most of the book is a rehash of stories researched by others, and the rest is oddly coy over naming names. Murray reworks published […]

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Jonestown. The secret life of Jim Jones: a parapolitical fugue

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] were disidentified, though no one is able to say why. According to Newsweek, however, the order to remove the tags was issued by Robert Pastor, the National Security Council’s staff coordinator for Latin American and Caribbean affairs. Asked about this, Pastor denies that he gave such an order, adding that it would have been […]

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