Politics and Paranoia

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] to John Major, and the Labour Party leadership began the long and tortuous process of full-scale conversion to being another Tory Party. And we got Blair and Brown after John Smith’s heart attack. And we got an end to the party’s members, via annual conference, having any say at all in policy making. I […]

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Rebranding SIS

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

SIS is dead – you read it first in Lobster – but the funeral has not been announced. Established in 1909, it will not make its centenary. SIS once offered a global brand operating in a market that had been previously divided along the lines of accepted cartels (market fixing). Its market-share, however, has been … Read more

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Print: Magazines and Catalogues

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] first. Information is being sought on the following individuals, most journalists, many possibly connected to various state-sponsored media/newspaper enterprises of the 50s, 60s and 70s. Ernest Ray Lewis Andrew Marshall Dennis Warner Michael Derek Carr Jennifer Hale John Epstein Ian Dunlop James Partington E.C. ‘Jim’ Brown S.J.W. ‘Jack’ Coles David Hay Neave (deceased) Douglas Evans

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Conservative Radicalism: A Sociology of Conservative Party Youth Structures and Libertarianism 1970-1992

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] she went down, so did they. (For a while they seemed to genuinely believe that Mrs Thatcher was a libertarian; a bit like believing that Blair and Brown are socialists. ) The book’s title is slightly misleading: the sociology takes up only a small section at the end. This is basically a history – […]

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Two views of Dorril: MI6: Fifty years of Special Operations

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] father, mother or little brother. What is the difference between training SAVAK and training the Gestapo? None – except in the case of SAVAK the tortured had brown skin. Dorril also includes some brilliant walk-on parts including Professor Ann Lambton (known as Nancy) of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She was […]

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Feedback

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] under Bilderberg, it should say page 367 where there are two paragraphs explaining that BC was invited to Bilderberg by Vernon Jordan and where he met Gordon Brown. This indexing error has been corrected in the recent paperback edition. From: Sebastian Cody Just to say, p. 37 of Lobster 48 says Wiebes’ study of […]

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USA & the CIA

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

A Covert Life. Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster Ted Morgan New York: Random House, 1999, $29.95 Freedom’s War: The US Crusade Against the Soviet Union Scott Lucas Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999, £45 Secret History: The CIA’s Classified Account of its Operations in Guatemala 1952-54 Nick Cullather Stanford (California): Stanford University Press 1999, £8.95 […]

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Letter from Fred Holroyd to The Guardian

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

This is the text of a letter The Guardian declined to print It was sent from Fred Holroyd on May 13th 1987 Dear sir, It comes as no surprise that Mrs Thatcher over reacted to the media attempting to discover the real facts of the Gibraltar shootings. Her attitude is vulnerable to close scrutiny, especially … Read more

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The accountability of the intelligence and security services

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] the Commissioners who review the operation of the various activities authorised by the Act. The position of Intelligence Services Commissioner is currently held by Lord Justice Simon Brown. He is responsible for reviewing and reporting upon the issue and authorisation by the relevant minister of warrants for operations by the Agencies for example warrants […]

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Rothschild, the right, the far-right and the Fifth Man

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] candidate for the title of Fifth Man has recently entered the arena in the pages of the biography of Sir Stewart Menzies, The Secret Servant, Anthony Cave Brown (Michael Joseph, London 1988). There are some intriguing references to MI6 officer David Footman who was a leading authority on the Soviets within MI6. The hints […]

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