Forty Years of Legal Thuggery

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] DEFENCE COUNSELLOR UK DELEGATION TO NATO 1971 PRIVATE SEC TO SEC OF STATE FOR DEFENCE 1973 UNDER SEC CIVIL SERVICE DEPT 1975 ASSIST UNDER SEC OF STATE MOD 1976-83 DEP UNDER SEC OF STATE HOME OFFICE 1984 PERMANENT UNDER SEC OF STATE NI ANNAN, LORD NOEL GILROY OBE (1946) B 25.12.16 KINGS COLL CAMBRIDGE, […]

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Clippings Digest: August – November 1984

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

[…] Clive Ponting have their mail opened. (Guardian 5 September) GCHQ De-unionisation of GCHQ apparently resisted by Sir Douglas Wass (at the Treasury) and Sir Frank Cooper (at MOD) when it was first suggested in late 1982. (Times 28 August) GCHQ staff being asked to allow security staff to see their medical records. (Daily Telegraph […]

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Operation Black Dog

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] with the US Department of Defense officials, no record of the mission had been found. Clearly this was no denial. Moreover, the official who responded to the MOD enquiry was Bernard Rostker, the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illness. Hardly the person one would expect to be privy to top secret information on a […]

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George Korkala’s address book

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

[…] S Rajh Jughemia 11867 Alexander 371 2399 Momtaz Ali 303 390-0693 212 371 1152 Carry Majgurski 212 988 5550 Michael W Yarbourgh MGT Group Inc 505-268 4100 MOD Roger Dach Maj 2184164 Larry Majewski 9885550 Murbe Abdul 305 723 2311 Murbe’s mother (Marjon): Kenya – 23436 Geo Carsten (MOD) 632 6444 Peter Ford – […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] Advisory Team. Other than confirming that 4 Field Survey Troop were in Northern Ireland when and where Holroyd said they were, no further information was forthcoming, the MOD replying, through junior minister Roger Freeman, that ‘Detailed information on this unit, which is not now deployed in the Province, is not available.'() Fast forward to […]

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Why are we with Uncle Sam?

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] to serve in NATO. The US and the UK have dominated serious appointments in NATO for years, for this reason. It is the driving priority of the MOD to keep it that way. They do not think in terms of national interest, but of both MOD interest and the American interest.’ And talking about […]

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Re:

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] and GCHQ.’ David Sharrock, ‘D-notice slapped on MoD’s history of censorship, Secrecy and the media, after spat over “turgid” writing’, The Times, 24 October 2008; Jack Lefley, ‘MOD censors its censor’s history for being boring’, The Evening Standard, 24 October 2008. Anon., ‘Former spy wins first round of “son of Spycatcher” book publication battle’, […]

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After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] Ritter as a ‘secretive intelligence activity buried inside the DIS which dealt with Iraqi weapons of mass destruction’.(19) Comfortable consorting with the press (Kelly also attended an MOD senior officers TV course at Wilton Park), we are told by Nick Rufford of The Sunday Times that Kelly had sometimes been ‘an undercover man for […]

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Big Boys Rules

Book cover
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] an interesting figure. A sometime full-time soldier, now with the BBC, Urban affects not to be just the traditional defence correspondent, dependent on the droppings of the MOD press office. He notes in this book that while he was entitled to non-attributable briefings from the MOD, he chose not to have them while writing […]

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The Campus Connection: Military Research on Campus

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

Rob Evans, Nicola Butler, Eddie Goncalves Student CND, London 1991, £3.00 The contents list is reproduced here. This is not my field but Rob Evans of the Campaign Against Military Research on Campus (CAMROC) now has quite a track record in this area. This is available at £3.00 from Student CND, 162 Holloway Road, London […]

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