Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] a covert operations adjunct to US foreign policy. (Aldrich is one of the handfuls of British academics who are trying to incorporate the activities of the British secret state into our post-war history and teaches a post-graduate course on the intelligence services et al at Salford University.) Just how important the secret intelligence dimension […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] had apparently not been released into the public domain. In The Independent (24 August 1998) Paul Lashmar, in ‘Pearl Harbour conspiracy is bunk’, reported that the ‘ secret file’ believed to contain the aforementioned ‘secret telegram’ had been released into the Public Record Office – and there was no secret telegram. In response to […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
Apartheid’s friends: The rise and fall of South Africa’s secret service James Sanders London: John Murray, 2006, £11.99, p/b This is a tremendously impressive piece of work; and it’s big: 395 pages of text, another 100 pages of notes and sources and a decent index. I imagine that most of it will be […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] Kissinger – he is the one who wants a higher price.”‘ ‘Yamani contends that proof of his long-held belief has recently emerged in the minutes of a secret meeting on a Swedish island where UK and US officials determined to orchestrate a 400% increase in the oil price.’ This is a huge story – […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] UK. £45 This is a magnificent reference book which will prove indispensable to anyone interested in politics. It is a godsend to academics, activists, researchers, journalists and secret policemen. Although the author is politically more to what most people would term ‘the right’, this work is written, as the publisher’s blurb correctly puts it, […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] just how little we – i.e. Steve Dorril and I, who began working with Fred and Colin, and the world at large – knew about the British secret state and its activities in Northern Ireland in 1985. This was one of the problems faced by Fred and Colin: presented with their stories, most journalists […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] March reports that a presidential commission has recommended shrinking the USA intelligence agencies while leaving their structure fundamentally unchanged. The report recommends revealing the size of the secret intelligence budget (estimated at $26-28 billion per year) and giving enhanced power to the Director of Central Intelligence to manage all thirteen spook agencies. The bi-partisan […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] parapolitical activities of Jean Violet go back to the 1930s, when Violet was supposedly involved with a violent quasi-Masonic movement going under the title of the Comite Secret pour l’Action Revolutionnaire, or CSAR. CSAR was part of a larger far-right phenomenon in pre-WW2 France, the conspiratorial members of which were referred to as Cagoulards, […]
