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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] info access programs.’ Displays frequently-requested documents released under FOIA and special interest collections of continuing public interest (Guatemala collection, El Salvador collection, Raoul Wallenberg, CIA creation docs). New material includes the Chile Declassification Project – documents released by CIA, FBI, NARA and Depts of Defense, Justice and State, detailing human rights abuses and terrorism […]

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New Labour’s foreign policy: a new moral crusade?

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

ed. Richard Little and Mark Wickham-Jones Manchester University Press, 2000, £45 (hb), £15.99 (pb) Herewith 260 pages of straight-faced academic endeavour come to the conclusion that New Labour’s foreign policy, ethical dimension and all, looks pretty much like the Foreign Office’s traditional foreign policy. Well! Who would have thought it? Thus Rhiannon Vickers, ‘Labour’s […]

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Watergate revisited: Hougan’s ‘Secret Agenda’

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] though the core of Secret Agenda, is a small percentage of a text which is overflowing with fascinating bits and pieces. And perhaps its the superfluity of new information which has obscured one or two simple points which effectively wreck this central thesis. In the first place Hougan has no evidence, not a shred, […]

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Historical Notes: MI5 and the Wilson Plot. USA and Chile. Hess

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] country with one of the most democratic records in Latin America – became respectable.(5) The campaign against Allende became known as one of ‘destabilisation’. This was a new term but the tactics were mostly tried and trusted variations on a theme already played successfully for example in Iran, Guatemala, Ecuador, and British Guiana over […]

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Five at Eye

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] Colin Wallace was putting together in Northern Ireland, on behalf of Information Policy, as part of Clockwork Orange. There is the same blend of known facts, intriguing new information, and the subtle insertion of ‘black’ material. All of which is held together, or given a ‘spin’, by the addition of a ‘theme’. The theme, […]

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Brands and Britannia: Some aspects of national image and identity

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] as much as any other organisation – as ‘a little country punching above its weight’. This identity, because of Iraq, has been sacrificed and, to date, a new one not found. At the moment, a key consumer marketing trend is ‘humanising branding’, the creation of a brand-person. This merges celebrity icon with product: e.g. […]

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The influence of intelligence services on the British left

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[…] was just the role of the CIA is false. None of these British reports have surfaced but over a 1000 pages of such reports made by the New Zealand US embassy to the State Department on the tiny NZ labour movement have been declassified and show surveillance down to the level of trades councils […]

KAL 007 and Overhead Surveillance

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] nuclear stockpiles and relations between the superpowers (‘Verification of the Salt 2 treaty’ in 1980 SIPRI Yearbook pp285-313). SALT 1 forbade the creation of more than one new generation of nuclear weapons and the encryption of data that could conceal such developments (‘Verification of the Salt 2 treaty’ in 1980 SIPRI Yearbook pp286-303). In […]

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After Iraq: some FCO/SIS issues

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] to the SIS – blamed their exiled ‘kings-in-waiting’ for supplying information that, not surprisingly, advanced the latter’s singular objective: to replace Saddam Hussein as President. SIS under new management Under new management, a battered SIS is now being forced into ‘co-ordination’ (sometimes confused with ‘consolidation’, which may also be happening) which has the laudable […]

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