[…] journal of the Campaign Against Foreign Control of New Zealand, from PO Box 2258, Christchurch, New Zealand; Big Sister – newsletter of the Organisation to Abolish the Security Intelligence Service, Box 1666, Wellington, New Zealand; New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone Committee, PO Box 18541, Christchurch, New Zealand, which publishes and distributes material on US/CIA […]
[…] Vietnam and with the SAS in Rhodesia, as well as in Angola. (Daily Express 12th August 1976). * * * Jeremy G. Barret, Managing Director of Polygraph Security Services (company details in Lobster 4), ex-SAS, describes himself as ‘a specialist on the subject of executive protection’. (Guardian 13th April 1984) * * * Extended […]
Hess: A Tale of Two Murders Hugh Thomas Hodder and Stoughton, London 1988 This is an update of Thomas’ 1979, The Murder of Rudolf Hess. Thomas argues (a) that the ‘Hess’ in Spandau prison wasn’t Hess at all but a double; and (b) that both the real and false Hess were murdered. The first proposition … Read more
[…] UK. For a free market Tory regime could not be seen actively – let alone successfully – intervening in the domestic manufacturing economy. And because the ‘national security’ blanket could be thrown over arms sales, the payment of millions – maybe billions – of pounds of bribes and general ripping-off of the public purse […]
Charlie Bubbles One of Lobster’s contributors had dinner a few years ago with Charlie Falconer, the current Lord Chancellor, and reported that he was a fount of information on the B-sides of pop singles of the 1960s. Well, pop-pickers, our civil liberties are safe in his hands then. Or not. As New Labour prepares to … Read more
[…] with our very own Baroness Cox (she of Campaign for a Free Britain) in Toronto. Tugwell spoke on the ‘connections between the “peace” movement, defence and national security and the educational system in Canada’. (Phoenix (Toronto) April 1987) One of the things Tugwell presumably won’t discuss in his book is his support for apartheid […]
[…] be a fairly routine investigation. We didn’t expect to find that there was much to the allegations of collusion, quite honestly. The claim that officers from the security forces had supplied Loyalist gunmen with the names and addresses of people they thought were terrorists in order to have them murdered seemed too fantastic to […]
Part 1, 1974-83 See also: Part 2: British Fascism 1974-92 (II) (Lobster 24) Part 3: British fascism 1983-6 (Lobster 25) Part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II) (Lobster 26) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) Introduction This essay does not set out to be a comprehensive history of fascism in this period but rather to … Read more
[…] are still involved in squalid, sectarian thuggery in Belfast. Inevitably, general interest in Crawford’s book will centre on its treatment of collusion between the Loyalist para-militaries and security forces, but as an ethnographer who studies terrorists as ‘ordinary people driven beyond normal boundaries’, Crawford is more concerned with the culture of collusion than with […]
[…] Select Committee on Transport; LFI veteran Mike Gapes stays on as chair of Foreign Affairs, and who is that old radical lefty who is now chairing the Security and Intelligence Committee? Step forward one-time Hornsey College of Art rebel and comrade of the striking miners, Dr Kim Howells. Described by The Jewish Chronicle as […]
