Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] advised Mr Obama, told The Sunday Telegraph: “The British Pakistani community is recognised as prob-ably al-Qaeda’s best mechanism for launching an attack against North America. The American security establishment believes that danger continues and there’s very intimate cooperation between our security services to monitor that.” ….The British official said: “The Americans run their own […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] on a Russian exile group known as the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists (NTS) by Peter J. Huxley-Blythe, then a protégé of Knupffer. (18) The article, ‘Insecure Security’, accused the CIA of financing the NTS; Huxley-Blythe claimed NTS was really under KGB control. Knupffer and other White Russian monarchists especially despised the NTS because […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] poll tax. Yet no new politico-economic strategy appeared and the defenceless British economy continued to receive a buffeting from international capital, bringing to its people increasing in security, immiseration and social disintegration. The parapolitical dimension The first point that has to be made is that this book is a good read. Porter has the […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] regular sessions with him in White’s Club. Richards, a former co-ordinator of intelligence in the Cabinet Office, replaced Maurice Oldfield in May 1980 as overall co-ordinator of security in Ulster, and is now head of the Joint Intelligence Committee. Good connections for Wallace, still in prison. In September it was revealed that the Home […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the body set up under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) to hear complaints relating to conduct by the Security and Intelligence agencies, and complaints about phone-tapping. It also deals with claims under the Human Rights Act 1998, s7(1)(a) that a public authority has acted in […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] the national treasurer of the Institute for Workers Control and worked in CND headquarters, at a point when they were the source of much interest to the Security Service. (And, according to the recent research by Seamus Milne, he would have been used to penetrate the National Union of Mineworkers in 1984, had he […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
See note(1) The Conventional Wisdom It is generally assumed that the economist J. M. Keynes was instrumental in establishing the post-war Anglo-American economic relationship. The argument is that, along with the US Assistant Secretary to the Treasury Harry Dexter White, Keynes created the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (now … Read more
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] covers all the areas under the “third pillar” of the European Union covering policing, Europol, immigration and asylum, the Schengen agreements, the European courts, legal cooperation, internal security agencies, prisons, the military, Northern Ireland, racism and fascism, plus listings of the debates and resolutions of the European Parliament. With 24 contributors from 12 European […]
Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££
[…] it. It is planned and controlled at the highest political authority.”(8) At the Lisburn headquarters there was close liaison between the Psyops Units, Army Intelligence and the Security Services. One of their chief sources of information came from homosexuals who were used to gather intelligence on extreme Protestant groups.(9) The Army didn’t trust the […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] documents that reveal the British role have been removed from public access and some of them remain closed until the next century – for reasons of ‘national security’. Nevertheless, a fairly clear picture still emerges. Churchill later told the CIA officer responsible for the operation that he ‘would have loved nothing better than to […]