Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] ensure new digital telecommunication systems do not hinder surveillance capabilities, and requiring the installation of monitoring capacity in these systems for national security/law enforcement purposes: ‘Acting in secret and without parliamentary knowledge or government supervision, the FBI through ILETS has since 1993 steered government and communications policy across the world. In the shadows behind […]
Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££
[…] decided to allocate Wallace more definitively to what was known as Information Policy. This was the mutation moment in Wallace’s career. He was to engage in highly secret and controversial work….’ The use of the words ‘was to’ is thoroughly misleading in that it conceals the fact that I had been working for Information […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] to have been in Paris on the night of the crash was Richard Dearlove, the then Director of Operations. In 1998 he became Assistant Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service and the following February he succeeded Sir David Spedding as Chief. See Richard Norton-Taylor, ‘Spy chief comes out of shadows’, The Guardian 26 February […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] me alone after that because by mid-1971 the Selective Service System was collapsing due to massive resistance. The fact that the anti-draft forces won is the best-kept secret of the sixties. Journalists don’t get paid to write about it; you had to be in the middle of it to know what happened. Many hundreds […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] effectively reduce the political influence of TNCs, European economies must be weaned from their dependence upon these corporations. Statewatch Statewatch has published a collection of 60 hitherto secret European Union documents and reports on policing, immigration, asylum, the Trevi group etc. Key Texts on Justice and Home Affairs in the European Union, Vol 1, […]
Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] of our readers follow the WRP fragments and has further information on this, please let us know. The WRP’s great sin in the eyes of the British secret state was, I presume, its financial support by Libya. It seems clear that contact with Libya is taken very seriously by our spooks. Ron Brown MP […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] of proposed Freedom of Information legislation. Privacy law – e.g. interception of e-mails (uniting, in wonderful alliance, multinationals with civil liberty groups) – also shores up the secret state; not forgetting the totally discredited Official Secrets Act. Finally, little consideration has been given to the implications for civil rights if the post office is […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
Barry and the boys The CIA, the Mob and America’s Secret History Daniel Hopsicker Venice (Florida): The Madcow Press, 2006, $19.95, p/b Barry is Barry Seal and ‘the boys’ are the CIA. There is a decent Wiki entry for Seal which conveys the outlines of his extraordinary life as a pilot, large-scale drug smuggler […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
Nicholas Bethell’s memoir Spies and Other Secrets (Viking, London, 1994) includes a curious section in which Bethell describes how in 1970, after he had been involved in the first publication of Solzhenitzen’s Cancer Ward in the West, he was attacked by a curious alliance of the left, Private Eye, and various people in and close … Read more
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
eds. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones and Andrew Lownie Edinburgh University Press, 1992. This worthy, but expensive, anthology of ten essays ranges widely from the obscure ‘ secret operations of Spanish consular officials within Canada during the Spanish-American war’ to the useful account of the ‘birth of the Defense Intelligence Agency’. In between are a number of […]
