Conspiracy theories are go!

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

Will the Illuminati arrive in black helicopters or Nazi-designed UFO’s? We are currently awash in dotty conspiracy theories. This is an interesting phenomenon even if the content of most of them is almost totally unreliable – at best. Some of this is the spin-off from the Oklahoma bombing and the media’s discovery of the militias. … Read more

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Spinning the Spies: Intelligence, open government and the Hutton Inquiry

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] trying to get ‘false and dubious’ intelligence put in the report of the Iraq Survey Group after the invasion had been successful. () Notes At the National Security Archive site, See, for example, Richard Norton-Taylor, ‘We got it wrong on Iraq WMD, intelligence chiefs finally admit’, The Guardian 8 April , 2005 See ‘Iraq’ […]

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Faking it

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] Welfare fraud figures ‘Labour ministers have persistently exaggerated welfare fraud by a minority of claimants in an attempt to distract attention from difficult questions about improving economic security for the majority’, so began ‘Benefit fraud “is exaggerated”‘ in The Guardian 28 August 2002. Labour Party Website In ‘Professors accuse Labour of creating a “social […]

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South African Connections

Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

[…] Evidence that Bertl was maybe not so innocent, and had links with Tory rightwingers (SL May 1983). Break-ins at Zambian High Commission were revealed. Head of SA Security Police, Coetzee, visited British intelligence in March. Believed SA established a new London burglary team in April (G. 27th June 1983). 7. SA propaganda links to […]

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Another layer of cover: Nick Cook’s ‘The Hunt for Zero Point’ examined

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] recovered from Thuringia in the 1930s…. Zero Point fails to provide either new information or entertainment. Instead it adds another layer of cover, telling us more about the sophistication of the security apparatus protect-ing this subject than it does about the elusive aircraft themselves. Notes 1 The Hunt for Zero Point, London: Century, 2001, £17.99

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Telecommunications at the End of the World

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] never been tested, even during joint military/civilian exercises. It is believed that, immediately after installation of the circuits, Telecom ‘lost’ or destroyed all records on grounds of security. This has rendered impossible any maintenance of the rapidly-corroding underground system; telephone engineers simply do not know where it is. The costs of EMSS appear to […]

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The aliens on the grassy knoll

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] literature of recent years has begun to resemble the literature of parapolitics. Increasingly the story is of the activities of putative agents of state, the intelligence and security agencies, and alleged disinformation and smear campaigns. (On this see Jacques Vallee’s Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception, London, Souvenir Press, 1992.) A recent re-examination of […]

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Gordon Brown

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

Tom Bower London: HarperCollins, 2004, £20, h/b   I heard Bower interviewed on Radio 4. He said that he had begun this book as something of an admirer of Brown but had changed his mind while writing it. Change his mind he certainly did: this is a serious assault on the man. Although there is … Read more

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Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] hate figure, Roosevelt, but the British government. Part of the conspiracy was a series of covert operations in America run by the British secret state (as British Security Co-ordination) which sought to neutralise/seduce the isolationists in Congress and persuade the American population to support US entry. This rather large conspiracy – a secret that […]

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The influence of intelligence services on the British left

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[…] by the state. This was the view, for example, of Ron Hayward, the General Secretary of the Labour Party. In 1974 Hayward was informed by a private security company that the Labour Party’s headquarters were bugged. ‘Nonsense,’ said Hayward. ‘We don’t have Watergate politics in Britain.’ Hayward simply didn’t know. In 1974 hardly anybody […]

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