Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] who co-authored Trail of the Octopus (about CIA drug-channel involvement in the Lockerbie bombing) writes in the latest Unclassified (quarterly publication of the Association of Former National Security Alumni, no. 34, Fall 1995), that the CIA feels itself threatened by a DIA campaign to remilitarize the US intelligence structure. According to Coleman the Pentagon […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] at it;(5) believing media-friendly populism to be the same as authenticity; and losing control of the populism so it is mistaken for it, including in some testosterone-driven security studies courses in universities. The overriding blockage, however, is that ‘authenticity’ is driven by niche appeal, whose success depends first on its brand reputation, and second […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] was LSD. The plan’s main thrust was the ‘method of approach to prospective volunteers’ who were to be selected from official personnel, based on their records and security clearance information. It called upon the proper code of conduct for volunteers, requiring them to sign a security statement. The volunteers were to be examined physically […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] Labour Government. In Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher: Covert Operations in British Politics 1974-76 using as their starting point information from former members of the security services and the British Army, and, in particular, certain accounts of the period written by Colin Wallace, the authors demonstrate that the outlines of a series […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] meant to be a phony. That is, the assassin thought he was killing Rabin but his gun was actually loaded with blanks. When he began firing Rabin’s security people began shouting, ‘they’re blanks’. This was a stunt mounted by a section of the Israeli security forces which had created and was running, an extreme, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££
[…] it. It is planned and controlled at the highest political authority.”(8) At the Lisburn headquarters there was close liaison between the Psyops Units, Army Intelligence and the Security Services. One of their chief sources of information came from homosexuals who were used to gather intelligence on extreme Protestant groups.(9) The Army didn’t trust the […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] Wilson plots’; in Australia Gough Whitlam, Jim Cairns and the Australian Labour Party got Governor Kerr and the CIA; in Germany Willi Brandt resigned after a “ security scandal’; in New Zealand a series of domestic scandals blighted the Labour Party. Were these events connected? Co-ordinated? If so — and there is no evidence […]
