Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] in our social history, “represents an important, unique direction of right-wing activism. Money not moral pronouncements was its means of persuasion….its methods reveal an underground network of secret subsidies to ‘sympathetic’ politicians and labour leaders, infiltration of government departments, intrigue and industrial spying”. (62) At this distance it hardly matters which trade union leaders […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
Democracy building or democracy assistance, is a putative socio-economic policy solution, which, because of the extent of the political and economic forces impacting on it, has become a contemporary socio-economic problem. Democracy building’s institutional formation rests upon a reconfiguration of Cold War positions that retain, what Dr. Michael Pinto-Duschinsky termed ‘such interference,’(1)so as to continue … Read more
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] eliminated during the storming of the Iranian Embassy in May 1980 had no unfortunate side effects because the terrorists had no popular support. Similar ruthlessness in the secret war against the IRA, however, did have serious drawbacks precisely because they did have a popular constituency in Northern Ireland. One of the main concerns of […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] was occasionally inclined to unsupported conspiracy theorising towards the end of his life, Prouty was the author of one of the best books about the CIA, The Secret Team. A senior military officer with years of experience liaising with the CIA for the Pentagon, Prouty wrote a full-bore assault on the Agency. It was […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] Laboratory – hence the view in the book that Parsons had a role (of some kind ) in the US space programme. Reuss was also a German secret agent. The OTO were regarded as an espionage ring in many parts of Europe. Crowley and his group were expelled from France in 1929 as a […]
Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
[…] view, the illusion was sustained by the politicians, and not by the Civil Service – what he calls ‘the permanent government’ – and certainly not by the secret Civil Service, SIS (MI6). For Verrier’s second thesis, the one I guess he really cares about, is that SIS got it right. There it is, out […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] of Hennessy’s books. His Cabinet, for example, is full of interesting bits and pieces. But like most British political scientists, Hennessy is wholly unwilling to discuss the secret arms of the British state. In his most recent book, a series of interviews he did for Radio 4 published as Muddling Through; Power, Politics and […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] own study of those elite soldiers, Green Berets at War (New York, Dell, 1987); a survey of clandestine action in Vietnam by Kevin M. Generous, Vietnam: The Secret War (London, Bison, 1985), and T. L. Bosiljevac’s book on U.S. Navy commandos, SEALS (New York, Ivy, 1991). These provided several insights, but a volume devoted […]
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 […]
