Hacks, pols and PR

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] their own independent investigations. Nor even politicos and journos sharing homes.(2) Oborne describes, for example, how when then Daily Express editor Rosie Boycott was looking for a new education correspondent she and the political editor, the late Anthony Bevins, sought ‘the guidance of Stephen Byers, then an ardently Blairite education minister, for advice about […]

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Shorts

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] will be getting a spin.’ In the event it was not the Greek coup program but the financial scandal model, previously used in Australia (against Cairns-Whitlam) and New Zealand, which was eventually used. This, anyway, is one interpretation of the collapse of the case against former Greek President Papandreou in January. (See, for example, […]

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Ian MacGregor: AMAX and armaments (Part 2)

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] would be interesting to know if Brunswick Corporation makes parts used in the construction of Cruise missiles. The informed reader will have noted already that Lazards in New York has a directoral interlock with the firm which constructs the Cruise missile, General Dynamics. (11) MacGregor’s connections with the armaments business do not end here. […]

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Re:

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] The author concludes that the view of Bilderberg as a seat of hidden global government comes closest to the truth. Hugh Wilford, ‘CIA plot, socialist conspiracy or New World Order? The origins of the Bilderberg Group 1952-55’, Diplomacy and Statecraft, 14 (3) (2003) pp. 70-82. Is there intelligent life out there? Alan Block confirms […]

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Acid: a new secret history of LSD

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

David Black London:Vision Paperbacks, 20001, £9.99 This a revised edition of the book which was reviewed in Lobster 35. I’m not sure how new it is. I no longer have the original edition but this seems pretty similar to it. What is new is some material on the activities of Steve Abrams, one of […]

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Letter from America: CIA set for Pentagon buyout?

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] P. Cabell and Admiral Stansfield Turner, for instance. But, according to Coleman, CIA has already lost control of NSA to the Pentagon, who will also run the new Defense Human Intelligence Service (DHIS). DHIS, which will be at the heart of future covert ops, will nominally be headed by CIA director John Deutsch, but […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] if you look up SIS Chief Sir Richard Dearlove in the Index, his column ref. is ….. ‘666’. If you look up MI5 Chief Sir Stephen Lander (new chief not in yet) in the Index, his column ref. is ….. ‘666’. If you look up the Security Service, Secret Intelligence Services, GCHQ, in the […]

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Branson

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] and become regarded as both a spokesman for youth and a great British entrepreneur Branson was duly courted by various UK politicians. The Tories liked him; later New Labour liked him, too. His astutely managed PR battles with British Airways made some think that Branson could (and would) provide cut price air travel. This […]

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Magazines/Articles

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] of which is said to have been in existence for 300 years. Article based on a collection Crisis of Economy and Ideology from British Sociological Association. Profile (New Statesman 23 November 1984) of Cransley Onslow MP, detailing some of his background in British intelligence in the 1950s and ’60s. The LaRouche Connection by Dennis […]

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The Making of New Labour’s European Policy

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] from anti- to pro-EU membership are the core of the ‘reforming’ of Labour in the 1980s and 90s and have remained at the heart of the ‘ New Labour’ project. His difficulty is that he has little evidence to support this thesis. Note the emphases I have added in the following quotes from Holden: […]

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