Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the global nuclear weapons conspiracy Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark London: Atlantic Books, 2007, £25, h/b This is not an area I have any expertise in and I am hardly competent to review this. But I found this big (500 pages), massively-documented book an absolutely riveting read. The authors’ … Read more
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] received a videotape in the post. The tape contained footage of Bush rehearsing for the televised presidential debates. Downey assumed the tape had been sent by a secret sympathiser in the Bush camp, and wisely handed it to his lawyer. His lawyer took it to the FBI. His suspicion aroused by the Bush campaign’s […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] the Prime Minister. One of these, ‘Economic Well-being’, was not published. Another, written in the same year (1996) was not published and even its title remains a secret. (What could the committee have investigated so soon after its creation that was so sensitive that even its title has been suppressed by the government?) The […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] ensure new digital telecommunication systems do not hinder surveillance capabilities, and requiring the installation of monitoring capacity in these systems for national security/law enforcement purposes: ‘Acting in secret and without parliamentary knowledge or government supervision, the FBI through ILETS has since 1993 steered government and communications policy across the world. In the shadows behind […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] to have been in Paris on the night of the crash was Richard Dearlove, the then Director of Operations. In 1998 he became Assistant Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service and the following February he succeeded Sir David Spedding as Chief. See Richard Norton-Taylor, ‘Spy chief comes out of shadows’, The Guardian 26 February […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] writer Ron Rosenbaum, Travels with Dr Death (Papermack, 1999). This includes essays on JFK’s death and the assassination research community; the death of Mary Meyer; Watergate; the secret society Skull and Bones; and the CIA. This last is Rosenbaum’s wonderful essay on Angleton and his paranoia. Rosenbaum is a journalist not a parapolitical researcher […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] effectively reduce the political influence of TNCs, European economies must be weaned from their dependence upon these corporations. Statewatch Statewatch has published a collection of 60 hitherto secret European Union documents and reports on policing, immigration, asylum, the Trevi group etc. Key Texts on Justice and Home Affairs in the European Union, Vol 1, […]
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 […]