Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. If these reports are true, we can reasonably conclude that the old CIA-organised crime connection. though technically banished from the CIA after Jack Anderson’s exposure of it in January 1971, was still pursuing its old political objectives under White House -narcotics cover in 1971-2, pending its intended integration into … Read more
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
Following the initial investigation by the West Mercia Police, there have been over a dozen reviews of this extraordinary case. Reviewers include Robert Green, (1) Tam Dalyell MP, (2) Graham Smith,(3) World in Action,(4) BBC Crimewatch,(5) John Osborne,(6) Amanda Mitchison, (7) Bob Parker (8); and more recently, David Cole and Peter Acland, (9) Nick Davies,(10) … Read more
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] and who-knows-what-else that were going to ensure the state would continue even if there was no one left to govern. Well, we had Civil Defence (whitewash and brown paper bags), but even its most devout apologists finally accepted that it was all kidology and strictly for the mugs. Now, the amazing thing about these […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] Secretary Rifkind to take his sacking to an industrial tribunal, and had his appeal against dismissal rejected by the chairman of the Intelligence Service Tribunal, Lord Justice Brown. Tomlinson’s mother said (the Sunday Times 21 December 1997) that her son described the Intelligence Service Tribunal as ‘a complete farce, a star chamber where he […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] getting a suitcase onto a plane. A Scottish police team in Malta found that Dalkomini, as well as Talb, had visited the island; that Talb owned a brown Samsonite suitcase of the type used for the bomb; and that Talb flew out of Malta on 26 November, 1988 — just three days after the […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] despite the Labour Party’s internecine squabbling, is one of the awkward facts omitted from Phillip Gould’s The Unfinished Revolution: How the Modernisers Saved the Labour Party, Little Brown and Co., London, 1998. In the postscript to the BAP pamphlet Weyer seeks to refute the Tom Easton thesis on BAP in Lobster 33 which, he […]
Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££
George Gregory Korkala was the ‘soldier’ in the activities of ‘lieutenant’ Frank Terpil and ‘leader’ Edwin Wilson. Wilson and Terpil are both ex-CIA, though when their relationships with the ‘company’ ended is not known. Korkala was arrested in February 1982 at a trade fair on security devices in Madrid. Spanish police carried out the arrest […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] is, under RIPA s59(3), similarly required to assist the Tribunal in their investigations, though in his first report, published in October 2001, the Commissioner, Lord Justice Simon Brown, does not refer to providing assistance to the IPT. (9) A further Commissioner, known as the Investigatory Powers Commissioner for Northern Ireland, is also established under […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] and their critical judgement by the red scare of the early Cold War. I SPY: The Secret Life of a British Agent Geoffrey Elliott St Ermin’s Press/Little, Brown, London, 1998, £18.99 The agent in question was Elliott’s father, Kavan, about whom Elliott knew very little until he began to research his life. The result […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] in a process of manipulation and patronage that has slipped from being about covert funding to overt flirtation and can be traced right through to Blair and Brown today. It is true that New Labour was strongly influenced by the Clinton team’s concept of ‘triangulation’, or what’s now being called ‘convergence’. But what is […]
