Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] Prophet Armed, P.219 Richard Pipes, The Russian Revolution, (New York: Vintage Books 1991) p. 391 The 1918 debt divided by the 1923 exchange rate after hyperinflation. Hitler’s Secret Conversations, 1953, quoted in Conjuring Hitler, p. 228. Eric Langenbacher, ‘Moralpolitik versus Moralpolitik: recent struggles over the construction of cultural memory in Germany’, German Politics and […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] giving the deranged inmates AK-47’s and instructing them to fire at US aircraft (sic) “. (p163) One of the few virtues of the recent James Adams book, Secret Armies (London 1987) is a thoroughly patronising account of this invasion. His version of the death of the mental patients (p243) reads: “An air strike was […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
Henry Brandon died (Obituary, Independent, 23 April, 1993). Brandon was one of the post-war school of journalists who were happy to act as mouthpieces for the secret services and foreign policy establishments of the NATO bloc. Had he been on the Soviet side of the Cold War, he would have been long dismissed as […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] on the authorities’ attitude to anarchism. My piece had merely referred, in general terms, to the official convention, observed for the past 120 years, not to place secret documents in the Public Records Office. Unbeknown to me, the then well-known author Raymond Postgate nursed abiding anger against official obstructionism. He was writing a book […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] by the nickname ‘Lock-up’ – and will be in charge of security data flowing between the Joint Intelligence HQ at Stormont Castle and reports from MI5’s top secret F3 section which is responsible for Irish affairs. (Sunday World 27th May 1984) …. Number one spook in Northern Ireland is Robert John Andrew (56) who […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] price stated This is worth skimming through, especially for the early 1950s period when Beeston was very close to SIS operations in the Middle East. These early chapters convey very clearly how the patriotic British journalist of the period rubbed shoulders with his country’s ‘ secret agents’ and never found them worthy of professional interest.
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] Leveller, but now I see exactly why they wanted this bit cut: the covert role of the intelligence and security services in British politics is the big secret. The spook in politics That covert role is one of the things fleetingly glimpsed in MI5’s pamphlet The Security Service (36 pages, £4.95 from HMSO). In […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] deliberately misleading. As the authors surely know, Mrs Thatcher used the term ‘the enemy within’ to signal to the anti-subversion lobby in and attached to the British secret state, that she was fighting not ‘British citizens who wanted……to be allowed to go on earning their living’, but the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB); […]
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 26 (1993) £££
[…] Gerry Gable, Searchlight’ s editor, spread lies that we were Nazis.’ Freedom (18 September) commented in its review of the pamphlet that ‘Searchlight’s links to the ( secret) state are — or should be — well known’; and commented that Larry O’Hara had been ‘the victim of a sustained, and even more absurd smear […]
