Notes on contamination

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] January 1989 cover of Searchlight was actually given by Harrington to Andrew Bell in one interview. Bearing in mind tensions within the Official NF over attitudes to Libya, Harrington had a political motive for leaking this photograph – and by printing it without attribution cannot Bell (a past editor of Searchlight) be said to […]

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Errors, corrections, apologies

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] to NUM President Arthur Scargill as ‘smeared all over the media as recipient of a cheap mortgage (in some version a mortgage paid for by Moscow andor Libya) which didn’t exist. (It astonishes me that Terry Pattinson at the Daily Mirror and Roger Cook at Central TV, in particular, have stayed on in their […]

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Enemies of the state

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] Thomas was acquitted. Arthur Scargill — smeared all over the media as recepient of a cheap morgage (in some versions a morgage paid for by Moscow and/or Libya) which didn’t exist. (It astonishes me that Terry Pattinson at the Daily Mirror and Roger Cook at Central TV, in particular, have stayed in their jobs […]

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The Crux of the Matter

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] Iranian border, to Erzurum‘ – to carry Iranian gas. This ‘brought criticism from the US for political reasons. The deal also initially appeared to violate the Iran- Libya Sanctions act (ILSA). ….However, because Iran will only receive transit fees for moving the gas to Turkey, the United States determined that Turkey was not in […]

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Spook PR

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] quoted in The Guardian, 24 October 2002 exploding the hypocrisy of both governments. The Arab League: The Independent 25 October 2002 said that President Gaddafi had pulled Libya out of the League and was now looking to Africa for some of his strategic alliances. This was interesting for two reasons. Firstly, because it is […]

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Tittle-tattle: New Labour – old Spooks?

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] meeting Bavrada, he also met his overthrower, Rabuka. During Bavrada’s short spell in office, a bogus ‘ Libyan scare’ campaign suddenly broke out in the Pacific area (Libya in the Pacific?). Rabuka used this to justify his coup. Immediately before the coup, various CIA-linked labour unions turned up in the area; as did the […]

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British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] 1943 POLITICAL WARFARE EXEC POLITICAL INTELL DEPT FO (ITALIAN SECTION) 1944 BRUSSELS INTELLIGENCE WORK 1945 STOOD FOR PARLIAMENT (CON) 1940s EDUCATIONAL ADVISER TO KUWAIT OIL CO AND LIBYA 1950- SET UP A FOREIGN LANGUAGE SCHOOL BRIGHTON MURDERED IN FRANCE IN SOMEWHAT STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES CAVENDISH, ANTHONY JOHN B 20.7.27 CARLTON SPECIAL FORCES, TRAVELLERS MI6 (‘C’ […]

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Training other people’s police forces

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] would be a step in the right direction, but future control would have to go further than that. In no way should involvement in places like Uganda, Libya and Sri Lanka be tolerated. If Britain is to have an honourable record in observing human rights this must exclude the provision of aid and training […]

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Was the 1974 oil price hike engineered by the Bilderberg group

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] “As early as the spring of 1970 Akins’s Fuel and Energy Office put together the implications of reduced reserves of domestic natural gas and the success of Libya in negotiating better terms from the oil companies and began predicting a price for crude at the Persian Gulf of $4.50 by 1980. Three years later […]

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Forty Years of Legal Thuggery

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] ALBERT NOEL BORN 11.12.36 UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM ATHENAEUM MI6 (PHILBY) 1960 TUTOR DURHAM UNIVERSITY 1961 ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT 1962 RESIDENT FELLOW JERUSALEM (JORDAN) 1965 LECTURER UNIVERSITY OF LIBYA 1966 FO 1967 2ND SEC KUWAIT 1969 1ST SEC FCO 1970 1ST SEC HEAD OF CHANCERY ADEN 1972 FCO 1973 AMMAN 1977 FCO 1981 1ST SEC […]

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