Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] Inc., New York, 1990). Janet Morris split with Alexander because he wanted to classify it. See Wired February 1995 for the split. See also Steven Aftergood,’The Soft- Kill Fallacy’ in The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, September/October 1994. NOFORN= no foreigners. Records released by the US Army Security and Intelligence Command, August 1995. Records released […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
Tons of documents and tape recordings recovered from an old manor house in Lancashire reveal the true depths of corruption in English provincial life at the end of the twentieth century. Owen Oyston was the British Labour Party’s biggest private financial contributor in the Thatcher years. The millionaire owner of radio stations and glossy magazines … Read more
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] vote for you in this age of instant phone-ins and under the watchful eye of the US media. So what you can do, instead, is effectively ‘ kill’ people who will vote for the other side, and then shrug your shoulders about it. No-one is hurt, no votes have been fraudulently cast, nothing to […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
One of the benefits of living in the West is the freedom to criticize our politicians. The fact that the electoral system rarely reflects considered criticism is not the point. We have always known that it is centred on political parties that are run by small groups more intent on newspaper opinion, and on that … Read more
Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££
Ex-British intelligence officer Richard Winch said KGB defectors regularly named 7 ‘MPs, trade union leaders and 1 former Conservative Cabinet Minister’ as KGB agents. (Daily Telegraph 24 and 27 September 1984) What, only 7? According to Frederick Forsyth’s ‘sources’ in the British labour movement there are 20. (See Times 31 August 1984). And doesn’t Chapman … Read more
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] as the patsies. The same thing happened to Abraham Bolden, a black Secret Service agent who wanted to tell the Warren Commission about an apparent plot to kill JFK in early November 1963 in Chicago. The report said that they had been allowed to do this in return for information on Turkish drug traffickers. […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
There has been much discussion about whether KAL 007 was an overhead intelligence platform or not. This article does not attempt to directly answer this question. Instead it reviews the reasons why the US should attempt technical intelligence gathering around September 1983 – when KAL 007 was downed – and the means available to do … Read more
Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££
The Shadow Warriors Bradley F. Smith (Andre Deutsch, London 1983) The network of close personal connections established in O.S.S. (the fore-runner of the CIA) “helped bridge some of the widest gaps in American society and could be called upon in cases of need long after the war ended. For example, when in 1964 former British … Read more
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] State Department and NSC consultant who initiated the arms-for-hostages talks, fleshed out the alleged connection. “Drugs go to the bourgeois countries where they corrupt and where they kill, while the arms go to pro-Communist terror groups in the Third World.’ The DEA’s own deputy administrator, David Westrate, framed the ideological rationale for expanding his […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
Jane Affleck Here are a few more websites, focusing chiefly on the issue of electronic privacy which is currently being debated both in the U.S. and Europe. Thanks to those who have sent comments, and thanks for contributions to: Terry Hanstock, Ian Tresman and Tony Hollick. Comments and contributions are welcome: I can be contacted … Read more