Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
Public relations, more usually referred to these days as ‘communications’, is a method used by organisations to explain themselves or issues, or sell a product/message/strategy. To create/manipulate their audiences’ various external environments so that these can prevail, sophisticated organisations firstly recognise competitor or negative PR; secondly, they counter it. The means by which they do … Read more
Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££
[…] even in these enlightened times – by the intelligence services. * * * Lord Avebury, and the Duke of Norfolk More on Colin Wallace (See Lobster 1). Liberal Peer, Lord Avebury, and the Duke of Norfolk, have joined forces to help prove his innocence. Avebury has written to witnesses who gave evidence at the […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] been subjected to the smirks of the petty assistants to the best Congress money can buy; unless you have dealt with the evasions and delusions of the Liberal left; it may be difficult for you to comprehend the impression Kim Besly made on me. Nothing had prepared me for what I found when I […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] for Wilson and Marcia for the early death of her husband; the story that Gaitskell was murdered by the KGB; talk of engineering a split in the Liberal Party over the role of power-sharing with either of the other two parties; talk of engineering a split between Harold Wilson and the NEC of the […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
A Note on MRA, CIA and L. Ron. Hubbard In response to my snippet in Lobster 38 (p.22) on Moral Rearmament and the CIA, Daniel Brandt (1) sent me the following from Miles Copeland’s, The Game Player: Confessions of the CIA’s Original Political Operative (London: Aurum Press, 1989, pp. 176-177). This is a nice demonstration … Read more
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] disclosure of information. ‘In Scotland the Crown is allowed to modify or withhold evidence if it considers that withholding is in the “public interest”.’(21) Baker on Kelly Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker’s book The Strange Death of David Kelly (London: Politico’s Publishing) received extensive press coverage prior to its publication in November. According to […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] resigned from CIA, avoiding Angleton’s mole hunt, and went back to Vietnam. At this point political considerations at the highest level came into play. Colby, a self-described liberal, had a fortuitous personal connection with Richard Nixon. (Colby’s son was the roommate of Tricia Nixon’s fiancé, Edward Cox, who in 1970 was Jonathan Colby’s best […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] and security services, or their fronts; that the period was, in effect, a protracted psy-ops campaign directed against the Labour Party (and, to a lesser extent, the Liberal Party); that, in short, Harold Wilson’s charges against the British ‘secret state’ made in 1976 were correct and not mere paranoia. Captain Fred Holroyd, former Special […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] the Middle East ever reads Orbis. Now Uncle Brian will tell us a story Another academically respectable sighting of the ‘C’ word is in Peter Coleman’s The Liberal Conspiracy (Free Press, Macmillan, 1989), a history of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), which should have been mentioned before now. CCF was one of the […]
Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
Clippings The Lie Detector Story In the wake of the Prime case, US intelligence has made polygraph (lie detector) introduction into GCHQ at Cheltenham a condition of future GCHQ-NSA cooperation. “At a meeting in July with Civil Service union leaders, Sir Robert Armstrong, the Cabinet Secretary, made it clear that Senior Whitehall officials were reluctant … Read more
