The once and future king?

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] to organise support for them. This included Labour Herald (a lavishly illustrated colour weekly), which appeared while the Workers Revolutionary Party was directly and secretly funded by Libya, and ceased to appear once the Libyan connection had been made public and that funding was no longer available. (14) Strongly anti-Zionist (actually anti-semitic(15)), Gerry Healy […]

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After Iraq: some FCO/SIS issues

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] it does not negotiate with terrorists, it does with some, including financial ones. (15) Spook recruitment These developments have understandably obscured ‘good’ FCO/SIS work, such as in Libya or, before the American executive derailed the peace process, Palestine. (16) This means that the only view prospective SIS recruits may have – at a time […]

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Lying about Iraq

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

NB This issue of Lobster went to the printer in late May. At that stage no Iraqi ‘weapons of mass destruction’ had been found by the ‘coalition’ forces. Before the furore over the British government’s ‘dodgy dossier’ in February, in truth I hadn’t been really paying much too attention to the then impending assault on […]

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Secrets from Germany

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

[…] publications – on Vernon Walters from Covert Action Information Bulletin, and on John Singlaub from National Reporter (formerly Counterspy). Perhaps the most interesting article is “Gunning for Libya – anti-Libyan operations in West Berlin” by Peter Niggl. Niggl investigates Mossad involvement in assassinations of Libyan officials and in operations designed to ensure that terrorism […]

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US involvement in the Fiji coup d’etat

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] of advisers but was later dropped from the provisional government because of his tainted reputation. Stinson himself said he joined Rabuka’s coup because of the threat from Libya. He admitted there was corruption in Fiji, but on a far lesser scale than in the Australian state of New South Wales. (The Dominion, May 21 […]

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SIS: Dearlove, Spedding and PR

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

In October the US Government hired advertising doyenne Charlotte Beers as Under-Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. (1) She intended ‘commissioning research into the Arab mentality’, confirming what we already knew: the American Government has so little respect for its many Arab/Muslim citizens, it has had to commission research into who they […]

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At Her Majesty’s Secret Service: The Chiefs of Britain’s Intelligence Agency, MI6

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] of editing for his ‘friends’ and his political friends. On page 266 he writes of Libya’s ‘astonishing admission of responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing’ without mentioning that Libya merely accepted formal responsibility, as a condition of restarting normal diplomatic and trade relations with the West, but still denies actually doing it. On pages 210/11 […]

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Errors, corrections, apologies

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] to NUM President Arthur Scargill as ‘smeared all over the media as recipient of a cheap mortgage (in some version a mortgage paid for by Moscow andor Libya) which didn’t exist. (It astonishes me that Terry Pattinson at the Daily Mirror and Roger Cook at Central TV, in particular, have stayed on in their […]

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Right-wing Terrorists and the Extraparliamentary Left in Post-World War 2 Europe: Collusion or Manipulation?

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] mid-1970s involve cooperation between Nazi veterans and/or neo fascists and particular Arab nationalist regimes, most notably those of Jamal ‘Abd al-Nasir in Egypt and Mu’ammar al-Qadhadafi in Libya, or factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). However in these cases, particularly those of the aforementioned regimes, it is quite debatable whether the ideology of […]

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Getting it right: the security agencies in modern society

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] MI6 building in the wake of the IRA attack on it; and there was the latest in the long line of anti-Gaddafi pieces, this one claiming that Libya now has some North Korean ballistic missiles. The only stated source for the allegation was a ‘Western intelligence official’. But four months before, on 28 May […]

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