Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
[…] for the so-called pro-family, anti Equal Rights Amendment, anti-gay, anti-abortion movements that arose in reaction to the 1960s. In March 1982 the British Coalition For Peace Through Security (CPS), based on its American counterpart (CPS-US), staged an Anglo-American conference which brought the new (to Britain) propaganda techniques of Viguerie to Britain. The speakers were […]
Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] a ‘new drive against male vice’ was needed. Horne wrote: The plan originated under strong United States advice to Britain to weed out homosexuals – as hopeless security risks – from important Government jobs. One of the Yard’s top-rankers, Commander E.A. Cole, recently spent three months in America consulting FBI officials in putting finishing […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] ERP: the greatest danger to the United States is the possibility of economic collapse in western Europe and the consequent accession to power of communist elements.(22) National Security Council (NSC) directives 4 and 4A in December 1947 illustrated the overt-covert double-act: while 4 covered the organisation of the State Department’s Voice of America and […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] information only (eg mission and authority) on these agencies, including CIA, DIA, NSA NRO, Army Navy and Air force Intelligence, depts of State and Energy, FBI. National Security Agency http://www.nsa.gov:8080/ Information about NSA, mission statement, Venona Project, cryptologic museum. Defense Intelligence Agency http://www.dia.mil/ National Reconnaissance Office http://www.odci.gov/ic/usic/nro.html Background information only. NRO’s existence was declassified […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] unprecedented move. An intelligence sub-committee was set up to hunt Neave’s killers. The then Paymaster General, Angus Maude, well known right-wing Minister, liaising with the Co-ordinator of Security and Intelligence in the Cabinet, Brooks Richards, headed it.. He promised unlimited financial resources to capture Neave’s killers”. (Magill above) “I want the maximum effort to […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] so many ‘supergrass’ trials in the 1980s, but had the effect of targeting Bingham on behalf of his republican foes. Bingham was incredibly careful about his personal security, with a mobile home on the Antrim Coast and network of safe houses. He was nonetheless assassinated outside his own house in what can only be […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] I am reminded what a great story this is. First black Secret Service agent; after the assassination, seeking to testify to the Warren Commission about the lax security practices of the Secret Service, he is framed by his erstwhile colleagues and dumped in a mental asylum. (Bolden and the Chicago incident are discussed at […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] the Shayler-Machon drama and the book Defending the Realm by Nick Fielding and Mark Hollingsworth. Nonetheless, familiar or not, this is a devastating critique of the British security services and the political system which is nominally in charge of them. The only agencies which come well out of this are regional Special Branches, who […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] poll tax. Yet no new politico-economic strategy appeared and the defenceless British economy continued to receive a buffeting from international capital, bringing to its people increasing in security, immiseration and social disintegration. The parapolitical dimension The first point that has to be made is that this book is a good read. Porter has the […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] They were the first company to envisage the possibility of business computers as early as the late forties. Computers at this stage were still matters of national security and much of the early research work was done by the Rand Corporation, the world’s first think tank, and originally a Cold-War front for USAF intelligence. […]
