Historical Notes: Blair and Gladstone

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

Blair and Gladstone Tony Blair’s Labour Party conference speech this year galvanised the delegates who were especially moved by his suggestions that Britain could play the role of an international troubleshooter, bringing liberal values, civilisation and the benefits of its skills in conflict resolution to troubled parts of the world. There were however some more … Read more

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Demos – fashionable ideas and the rule of the few

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] away. The current battle is with those who once used these organisations for their own and possibly much more sinister political ends – the democratic centralist national security state. As for cultural politics – take the power to commission and distribute from the centre and give it to the locality and you have half […]

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Northern Ireland &; CIA, Nairac & Phone-tapping

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] seven visits from a ‘Stuart Delroy’ who said he was born in Zambia and worked for the Institute. Nairac Linked to Killing of IRA Members in Republic? Security forces in Ulster are investigating claims (or looking the other way) that Capt. Robert Nairac was involved in the killing of IRA members in the Republic […]

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Letter from America. Rand Corporation. Kennedys. Pentagon. Oklahoma. Garrisonia

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] longtime investigator of the Mafia and author of the very good Dark Victory (about Ronald Reagan’s mob connections), was one of many researchers to finger a Cuban-American security guard named Thane Eugene Cesar as a possible second gunman. Now he has reversed himself, claims Sirhan Sirhan acted alone, and has threatened the Baltimore Sun […]

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Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] text of this memoir into a tape-recorder and didn’t bother proof-reading the transcript (or doing an index). Thus in McAlpine’s memory IRD is ‘a branch of the security services, called, I believe, something like IDA….’ and Ernest Wistrich of the European Movement is ‘Ernest Wisterage’. Extra! the magazine of FAIR http://www.fair.org Also worth checking […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] international money orders, payable to Counterpoise at 1716 SW Williston Road, Gainesville, Florida 32608-4049, USA. Surveillant A free issue of Surveillant: Acquisitions and Commentary for Intelligence and Security Professionals has arrived. Vol. 4 numbers 4 and 5, is 96 indexed pages of book reviews in the fields of intelligence history and technology, crime, drug […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] The Sunday Telegraph on 10 March 2002. After a sniper killed ten Israeli civilians and soldiers on the West Bank in one session, the Telegraph reported ‘British security officials are looking into suspicions that a crack sniper….might be an IRA gunman.’ (‘Ragheads’ can’t shoot straight but ‘Paddy’ apparently now can.) The truth isn’t out […]

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New Cloak, Old Dagger: How Britain’s Spies Came In From The Cold

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] that much of what they said was “pure cock and bull.”‘ Second, acknowledging ‘the fact that subsequent court proceedings were held in camera “for reasons of national security” seems to confirm they had some involvement with the British’, he adds, ‘although not necessarily with MI6. Senior intelligence sources said that even if the Littlejohns […]

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Gone but not forgotten: a further update on Di

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

Gone but not forgotten: a further update on Di Terry Hanstock This update follows on from my earlier articles in Lobster 38 and Lobster 39 Never was the old adage ‘She’s dead but she won’t lie down’ more apt than when applied to the late Diana, Princess of Wales. Although she died almost nine years … Read more

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The Department of Energy’s Guinea Pigs: a preliminary report

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] in Area 15 with tritium’, D. L . Fraser, the General Manager in his letter of December 7, 1993, to Bruce Church, Assistant Manager for Environment, Safety, Security and Health of the Nevada Operations Office of the DOE, finally conceded that ‘In the area of human experimentation, several types of studies were found which […]

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