[…] a competitive rate and British manufacturing actually expanded a little. Then came the election of 1997 and Labour, hitherto the party of domestic manufacturing, showed what the ‘new’ bit of ‘New Labour’ meant by doing the City’s bidding, handed over the interest rate to the Bank of England, which promptly put the base rate […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] a smear and claims to have been drugged and tortured by the CIA. This one, as the old cliché has it, is going to run and run. Notes You can read more about her involvement in the debate at She claims to have been Special Operations Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence and […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] suggest that the encouragement of black market currency dealings designed to destabilise sterling in the summer of 1949 might have had the status of a deniable operation. Notes Profits of Peace, (Oxford: Clarendon,1996) A subject covered by John Burnes “One Boggis-Rolfe or two?” in Lobster 38 Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince and Stephen Pryor with […]
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 […]
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 […]
[…] This, presumably, was the same project with which his former deputy Werner von Braun, and around 200 of his former staff, had been busying themselves down in New Mexico from April 1946. The complete secrecy that shrouded the investigations into Tesla’s inventions also extended to Dornberger and von Braun as part of ‘Operation Paperclip’, […]
[…] in Australia Gough Whitlam, Jim Cairns and the Australian Labour Party got Governor Kerr and the CIA; in Germany Willi Brandt resigned after a “security scandal’; in New Zealand a series of domestic scandals blighted the Labour Party. Were these events connected? Co-ordinated? If so — and there is no evidence yet — what […]
