Surf’s up! Internet sites of interest

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] McLibel legal action alt.freedom.of.information.act Items on US Communications Decency Act, concerned with online censorship CONSPIRACY Web Conspiracy Page http://www.nova.cioe.com/html/politics.html Lists conspiracy-related net sites and newsgroups. Under ‘top secret files’ the menu includes Bilderbergers, EMP Weapons, FEMA, HAARP, Mind Control, Nazis and Occult, New World Orders, Opal Files, October Surprise. (Had difficulty down-loading – info […]

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In the Name of the ‘New World Order’

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Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] account of the rise of Bill Clinton which focuses on the role of the late Averell Harriman and his wife. The author notes Harriman’s membership of the secret society Skull and Bones, at Yale University, and Bill Clinton’s encountering Professor Carroll Quigley at Georgetown University and his subsequent Rhodes Scholarship. To the author this […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] New Statesman of 27 September (3) there was a very interesting account by Observer journalist David Rose of his becoming an asset of the British and American secret states in 1992, wined and dined and given unattributible leads and information. It began with ‘C’, Sir Colin McColl, lunching with then Observer editor Donald Trelford, […]

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UDA: Inside the heart of Loyalist terror

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] at Kincora Boys Home, his murky links with Unionist politicians and layers of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), via TARA, nor on his later role as a secret state asset. () At the same time the authors show how many contradictory forces were brought together in the early UDA – many of which were […]

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Britain in the 90s: Up against the state

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] the US National Reconnaissance Office’s (NRO) reactions to my FOIA requests. Almost every document NRO has compiled in the process of my FOIA requests have been classified Secret or Top Secret. These are not records I have requested, but records NRO has created in the process of handling my FOIA requests. In response to […]

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Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] time contained detailed information on the progress of the war. It is now revealed that de Courcy was able to do this because ‘we have the Swedish secret service reports…. Only Prytz and I know. HMG cannot make out how I know what is going on behind enemy lines.’ Despite his problems de Courcy […]

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The Police and Computers: Some Recent Developments

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

[…] the population, and at least 50% of those files were on people without a criminal record. Perhaps it is over-stating things to call such intelligence gathering a ‘secret’; similar figures have emerged in the past. But it is certainly something the police are none too keen that the public should be aware of, and […]

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Lobster Issue 39: Contents

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] regime at home. Publicising what the British state most wanted kept in the cupboard seemed a good idea. But these days, dozens of books about our ‘ secret services’ later, the ‘Secret’ Intelligence Service flaunting its bureaucratic muscle in that shiny, new building on the Thames, we have intelligence stories everywhere. Mere collating of […]

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The Great Betrayal

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] files available under the Freedom of Information Act in the US on Philby, Burgess and Maclean, (see, for example, Sunday Times 31 March 1985), and the top secret State Department decimal file for Albania 1948/9 is available for all to see in the National Archives. Philby was definitely responsible for blowing some of the […]

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A note on the British deployment of nuclear weapons in crises – with particular reference to the Falklands and Gulf Wars and the purchase of Trident

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] informed by a retired senior Ministry of Defence civil servant and I am aware of other sources. Duncan Campbell of the New Statesman was informed of highly secret signals exchanged between London and the British Embassy in Washington concerning the deployment. He and John Rentoul published this information as part of the ‘Belgrano Papers’ […]

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