Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Research

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] reality in the media etc.. It became absurd to deny the existence of large-scale conspiracies, of powerful ‘hidden forces’, the day the CIA (or the Politburo, or MI6) was begun. The interesting questions, the rational questions are not ‘Are there such things as hidden influences in political/social life?’; but, ‘Given that there are such […]

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Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s

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Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] to be that if they did their job more intelligently, they could be a genuine bulwark of democracy. ‘Perhaps it is time for the ”sensible chaps” in MI6 to rescue their political initiatives’, Dorril concludes in his chapter on Ireland. This ‘sensibleness’ is the hallmark of the current reforms, which have resulted in copies […]

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Notes from the Borderland, no. 4

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] the Telegraphs – it is reasonable to assume that there is a decent chance the material is coming from the Foreign Office or the psy-ops people at MI6. Beyond that little is certain. I do not see what is accomplished by suggesting, as he does here, that Martin Bright of The Observer might (or […]

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The Liar: the fall of Jonathan Aitken

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] and defence capabilities continue to shrink. Book your seat now for Round Two, the Aitken perjury trial . . . his defence that he was working for MI6 all along. After the sentence is handed down we should have the material for a better and more interesting book than the story of how the […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] are therefore inaccessible. (5) Who dares to say that our civil servants are lacking in initiative? Same old Con Undeterred by the disinformation given to him by MI6 about Gadaffi’s son which led to a successful libel action against The Sunday Telegraph,(6)and undeterred by all the nonsense he ran in the run-up the attack […]

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Following in Uncle Sam’s dirty footsteps: chemical and biological warfare testing in the UK

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] reference in Peter Wright’s Spycatcher. He notes that ‘the whole area of chemical research was an active field in the 1950s’, and refers to a joint MI5/ MI6 ‘program to investigate how far the hallucinatory drug lysergic acid diethyalmine (LSD) could be used in interrogation, and extensive trials took place at Porton.'(21) Wright gives […]

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The Syndicate

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] is still transparently false. There is no ‘syndicate’, no matter how loosely you define it – and his definition is very loose indeed. And how long are authors going to continue taking seriously John Coleman (he of the ‘Committee of 300’ nonsense, cited extensively here), and his description of himself as a former MI6 officer?

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Truth Twisting: notes on disinformation

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] Foreign Affairs Publishing Company of Geoffrey Stewart-Smith. Keston College, the British centre of the study of religion in the Soviet Union, certainly, but not yet provably, an MI6 operation. Soviet suspicion of Keston led to the collapse of a planned visit to Moscow by a British human rights mission in October 1989 when one […]

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Books forthcoming

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] own man in the White House. It may be interesting to read C. M. Woodhouse’s The Rise and Fall of the Greek Colonels (Granada). Woodhouse worked for MI6 after the war in Greece and Iran, then became a Tory MP. William Keegan’s column in the Observer is the most informative economic view of Britain […]

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Joseph K and the spooky launderette

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] forms of academic ID I had shown him – only about my name. I later learned that Marks had often used various fictitious names and had serious MI6 connections. I had given the man who took us to the club no personal details about myself, not even in the conversation in the Half-Way House. […]

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