Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] wiretaps is challenged by advanced telecommunications technoogy. Since 1986, the FBI has become aware of a potential loss of wiretapping capability due to the rapid development of new technologies. They proposed legislation in May 1992 intended to maintain wiretapping capability for new telecommunications technology. Technologies that the FBI says it needs to wiretap include […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] to the SIS blamed their exiled ‘kings-in-waiting’ for supplying information that, not surprisingly, advanced the latter’s singular objective: to replace Saddam Hussein as President. SIS under new management Under new management, a battered SIS is now being forced into ‘co-ordination’ (sometimes confused with ‘consolidation’, which may also be happening) which has the laudable […]
Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££
[…] Units were available at 15 minutes notice. (Guardian 17 October) Moves afoot to change laws on public demonstrations. ‘Consultations’ taking place following 1983 Law Commission recommendations of new offences of riot, violent disorder, affray and conduct intended or likely to cause fear of violence or provoke violence. Police Federation wants new Riot Act. (Guardian […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] affair. So mysterious was the group that even its name causes uncertainty: for cover purposes, it was the Studies and Observations Group, but purists and insiders k new it as MACVSOG or MACSOG (after the ‘U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam’, to which it was nominally attached), and still others called it the Joint Unconventional […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] political activism based on an impressively detailed study of ways in which leaders of the world based their judgements on one form or another of divine guidance. For example, our station chief in Kabul had reliably reported that Afghani politicians habitually settled deadlocks in their parliament with cockfights. Each side of the dispute would […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] be familiar to Lobster readers from articles by myself and John Burnes in recent editions and there is no need to recycle it here. The most interesting new development concerns de Courcy’s connection with the Swedes. This revolved around the diplomat Bjorn Prytz, who was the intermediary between Britain and Germany in the abortive […]
Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
[…] US experience suggests that polygraph tests wrongly clear 1 in 4 guilty suspects. (Guardian 19th October 1983) On polygraph’s failings: Douglas Carroll (Guardian 26th May 1983) and New Scientist (15th December 1983) Summary of the story so far: Richard Norton-Taylor (Guardian 16th November) and Hennessy (Times 16 November 1983) UK Government buys six polygraphs […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] Hancock, Zimmern, Lothian and Curtis, are all parts of the elaborated Round Table network of the 1930s. I went to Quigley’s The Anglo-American Establishment (Books in Focus, New York, 1981) in search of further information on this conference. Quigley told me (p. 163) ‘the expenses were met by grants from the Carnegie Corporation and […]
Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
[…] OFFICER 1938 Z-NETWORK 1940 ALGIERS HOS 1942 GIBRALTAR HOS 1945 RESIGNED. WORKED AS LABOURER AT WATNEYS BREWERIES BROTHER OF WILLIAM MELVILLE CODRINGTON CMG (1946) B16.12.1892, D 29.4.63 NEW COLL OXFORD 1914-18 SIGNAL SERVICE MC 1918 3RD SEC FO, 2ND SEC TANGIER 1925 RESIGNED 1939 MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC WARFARE 1940 HEAD OF SECURITY DEPT 1942-45 […]
Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
Paul Johnson, former editor of the New Statesman turned ‘new right’ Thatcherite, turned his hack hand to KAL 007 in a review of Alexander Dallin’s Black Box KAL 007 and the Superpowers (University of California Press 1985) in the Times Literary Supplement (August 23 1985). Johnson asks the question: “How could a Korean pilot […]
