Miscellaneous: Gemstone. Workers’ Revolutionary Party, MI5 and Libya

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] to the original Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File. As it turned out, the process was further down that road than I had imagined. From Owen Wilkes, New Zealand’s leading parapolitics researcher, comes the news that a version is in circulation there. Now described as ‘Skeleton Key to the Gemstone file, 1932-86’, this has […]

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The Rise of Political Lying

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

Peter Oborne London: The Free Press (Simon and Schuster), 2005, £7.99, p/b   Before his minutely detailed account of some of New Labour’s lies Oborne gives us a potted history of lying in the past 25 years to show us how relatively truthful New Labour’s predecessors were. This old nag won’t run. For example, […]

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Gone but not forgotten

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] was to gain support from both the remnants of the Die-hard tradition, who were dismayed by the collapse of the British empire, and ex-fascists who resented Mosley’s new European idea. In spite of the old-fashioned political tactics its role was to be seminal in the founding of the National Front in 1967.’ Candour was […]

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PR, Iraq and ‘the allies’

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

The American boomerang In America, Mayor Bloomberg has banned smoking in public places, especially in restaurants, inadvertently turning New York into an unlikely but almost spook-free zone. (1) American intelligence officers may not smoke, but some of their overseas contacts will. If meeting in the West, they will prefer to do so in London; […]

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New Labour tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] now heads Compass, Neal Lawson. Readers will recall the trio being a target of Greg Palast when the American journo turned over the money-making activities of well-connected New Labour types in 1998. Mendelsohn sits on the international advisory board of the Harold Hartog School of Government and Policy at Tel Aviv University. Alongside him […]

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Re:

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] when leaving… house… But… was not just a bad driver, but one who could not drive at all….He was unable to recognise clutch or, still worse, k new how to operate it.’ Trainer prints were found in the house but ‘there was no evidence to link him with the wearing of trainer shoes at […]

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The Real Gemstone File

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] – Nov. 1, 1963 — as a “polite letter.” Onassis ate the livers of Hampton and Clark – in Chicago – after Chappa-quiddick – because they k new of the aborted JFK Chicago murder. I love Hearst. Cafarkis – Onassis’ former bus boy – is now a millionaire – hotels on the Riviera. I […]

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Tittle-tattle: New Labour – old Spooks?

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] suggested this interpretation to him. If there’s any truth to it, however, it becomes worrying in a political sense. With the Guardian moving ever closer to the New Labour establishment, what else wouldn’t they investigate if they came across it? Is the smell of incense currently wafting from the Guardian offices covering a more […]

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In camera injustice

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] Not until many months later, in June 1993, did it become clear why those two names were important: when the Prosecution revealed they would be calling a new and anonymous witness to my trial. This witness, a US citizen referred to as Mr. E, had worked as a salesman in a hi-fi shop in […]

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UFOs and disinformation

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] to attack the Soviet Union found in the US national archives was code-named MAJESTIC! (1) Cannon commented: ‘The website is devoted, in general, to Tim Cooper’s ‘ new’ MJ12 documents, which I believe are phonies. He’s been receiving these things for the past few years. The ‘old’ MJ12 documents – the ones originally given […]

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