SAS: the Stiff Memoir

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] were ‘quite a few unofficial ones’. Watchguard International After leaving the SAS, he was placed on the books of Watchguard International, a private company working for the security services. As ‘a private company’, the firm, as Watchguard International was euphemistically known, ‘could engage in things unofficially approved of by the British government…. but officially […]

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An Unbiased Watch? the police and fascist/anti-fascist street conflict in Britain, 1945-1951

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] attacks on synagogues. Fascists set fire to the Ark and Sacred Scrolls of the Dollis Hill Synagogue; Edgware and Burnt Oak synagogues were compelled to employ 24-hr. security guards. There were also attacks on individual Jews. In August 1947, H. Trainis and his wife, were assaulted in the area around Colverstone Crescent in Hackney. […]

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Ribbontrop Blair

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] insisting that invasion was necessary because of weapons of mass destruction to asserting that the motive was regime change; what happened behind the scenes over the second security council resolution; and the still unexplained reason for Lord Goldsmith’s quick change of mind culminating in his advice that starting the war was legal even without […]

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Britain spinning in the Sibel Edmonds web

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] warned him that he was in immediate danger. Amin dismissed these concerns and insisted that he could continue the investigation, relying on the local British embassy for security if need be. The following evening he received a call from his boss, Mickey Bispham. He was ordered to return to London immediately. Amin was thereafter […]

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Did the CIA sink a ship-load of Leyland buses in the Thames?

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] appeared on a story from the Capitol Hill columnist Jack Anderson. Anderson and Les Wilton reported that sources in the Central Intelligence Agency and the secretive National Security Agency were confirming their suspicion that the ‘….mishap on the Thames was quietly arranged by the CIA to keep the buses from reaching Cuba. Long before […]

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Harassing Robert Henderson

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] I made a subject access request to MI5 under the 1998 DPA act when it became ‘live’ in 2000. I received a reply which took the regulation Security Service ‘We can neither confirm nor deny’ line. This appeared to be in direct contradiction of the 1998 DPA and the Human Rights Act (HRA). Accordingly […]

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The Anti-CND Groups. Ingrams

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] More on Francis Leonard Holihan. He was linked to the Heritage Foundation and, it is claimed, misappropriated funds from them intended for the Coalition For Peace Through Security, transferring them into his own Washington Bank account. When not dropping names – Ed Meese, Michael Deaver – Holihan would use the offices of The Heritage […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] most commentators didn’t believe him. I don’t know.) (3) ‘The best fake Maoists’ In October Radio Netherlands reported on the memoirs of a former member the Dutch security service (BVD), Frits Hoekstra. This includes the BVD’s creation of a fake Maoist party in the 1970s, which fooled everyone, including the Chinese government.(4) The BVD […]

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Mark Felt, Jason Blair and ‘Misty Beethoven’

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] written after Watergate (and virtually uncirculated), McCord put forward a conspiracy theory suggesting that the Rockefeller family was lunging for complete control over the government’s critical national security functions, using the Council on Foreign Relations and Henry Kissinger as its surrogates. Felt, McCord and a boatload of liberals weren’t the only ones to demonize […]

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Israel’s Edwin Wilson

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] through shady arms dealing. Mike Harari, leader of MOSSAD’s Munich revenge hit-squad exposed in 1973 after the Lillehammer bungle, resurfaced in Panama in the late 1970s as security advisor to General Noriega’s predecessor, General Torrijos. After Noriega came to power, Harari quickly assumed a position of great influence, training Noriega’s bodyguard and advising on […]

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