Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] collective defensive force against Russia; and, given the propensity of institutions to try and reinvent themselves rather than close down as surplus to requirements, there was a new role for NATO in the projection of Western power as a force for stability and peace against global anarchy and latterly, insurgency. Both of these propositions […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] was involved in creating organised crime in the US. After Meyer Lansky, who was Jewish, had formed his partnership with Lucky Luciano, who was Italian, in 1920’s New York, organised crime became a completely multi-ethnic enterprise. The Mafia soon came to an understanding with the gangs which had originated in other ethnic groups. Everyone, […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] HISTORY CALIFORNIA UNI. 70-73 PROF. OF MODERN HISTORY ALL SOULS COLL OXF. AUTHOR BARTLETT, ANTHONY 1960s MI5 (WIA) BEARSTEAD, LORD WALTER HORACE SAMUEL B. 13/3/1882 D. 8/11/48 NEW COLL. OXFORD CARLTON, WHITES, BUCKS, BEEFSTEAK MI6 14-18 WEST KENT YEOMANRY EUROPEAN WAR -38 SECTION D 39-43 COL. GENERAL LIST WHILST SPECIALLY EMPLOYED BECKE, MAJ. SIR […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
Global Intelligence: the World’s Secret Services Today Paul Todd and Jonathan Bloch, London and New York, Zed Books, 2003 h/back £32.95/ $55.00 p/back £9.99/ $17.50 ‘We lacked specific information on many key aspects of Iraq’s WMD program’ Vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council, Stuart Cohen, December 2003 With the spectacular failure […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] as Britain’s International Assassination Bureau: Permindex, by three guys named Goldman, Kalimtgar and Steinberg, supporters of Lyndon LaRouche. There was more. The Conspiracy Tracker, published in Patterson, New Jersey, was up to issue 21 when I approached it, and its list of back issues featured these gems: ‘Did Masons kill JFK, Pope John Paul […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] Oswald purportedly clashed in the summer of 1963.(14) The anniversary of the Miners’ Strike has inspired a slew of articles and reminiscences. One unlikely source is The New Law Journal in which a retired barrister, David Mason, recollects representing striking miners in court (‘…my clients were, without exception, decent men.’) He also recalls that […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] with. Oops! End of subscription. Lefty librarians? A number of Lobster subscribers are in the information business, some in libraries. They might take a look at a new journal with the nostalgic-sounding title, Information for Social Change. Thirty four pages, nicely produced and desk-topped, this will appear twice a year and subs. are £5.00 […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] is the biography of Dick White, the only man to have been head of both MI5 and MI6 (SIS) and it is a massive breach of the new Official Secrets Act. For Bower not only had access to White’s memoir of the period, with White to vouch for him, he spoke to ‘dozens’ of […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] the themes established in 1974/5. But in 1984 Jim Hougan produced one of the great pieces of research in post-war American politics and gave us a completely new account of Watergate, his Secret Agenda (New York, Ballantine, 1985; no UK edition). Hougan’s research was subsequently reworked by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin in their […]
