Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] career of Noel Pemberton-Billing (1881-1948). Substantial original research has been carried out to bolster the key finding in the text: Pemberton-Billing was used in 1917/18 by the security services and the ultra-right (of which he was a keen member) to smear and damage a number of mainstream politicians, mainly the Asquith Liberals, who were […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
Russell Holden Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002, hb, £47.50 The author is an enthusiastic supporter of the ‘reforms’ of the Labour Party and a Senior Lecturer in European Studies. His thesis is that the changes in Labour’s policy from anti- to pro-EU membership are the core of the ‘reforming’ of Labour in the 1980s and 90s … Read more
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] organisations and took part in the negotiation of several international treaties and agreements between 1974 and 1976. He was also involved in some aspects of the European Security Conference (the Helsinki Conference).’ 2 3 4 Byers was running the Israeli line that being critical of Israel is being anti-semitic. This is considered in a […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] we know dated back to the 1980s: warrantless surveillance, warrantless detention, suppression of habeas corpus, and possibly the preparations for use of the U.S. Army in domestic security matters. The creation of NORTHCOM represented a significant break with the past in this respect. My apologies to Peter Dale Scott. I read his book when […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] conversation with the author, October 1996. Advisory Committee on Human radiation Experiment , CIA record number CIA-071095-A. Dr. James H. Huddleson to Chief, Technical Branch, Office of Security, ‘Conference with Dr. Webb Haymaker’, November 4 1953. Op. cit. 17. Church Committee Report, Book 1, p. 395, states that one of the three principal functions […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] London. Leading the rush, and spouting many weasel words, were Lord Halifax and R. A. Butler, both favourite politicians of King George VI. Concerned about ‘peace and security in Europe’, they argued that British interests really lay with the Empire and overseas trade rather than Europe. Churchill only narrowly headed this off but once […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] of those Kennedys.) A recent detailed study of the hackability of the Diebold voting machine is Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex Halderman, and Edward W. Felten, ‘ Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine’ at http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/. 10 I got 279,000 Google hits for ‘Diebold + voting machines + organised crime’. The first couple […]
Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££
[…] Diplomatic intercepts by GCHQ were also helpful to the US during the build-up to the 1972 Paris peace conference. President Nixon and Dr. Henry Kissinger, then National Security Adviser, attached great importance to the mood of the North Vietnamese and the Hong Kong station’s information, which suggested that Hanoi was far from capitulating, led […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] Eamon McMahon, McArdle says: “McMahon, a debonair type, was a Republican from a fiercely Nationalist family. He was generally recognised as a shadowy paramilitary activist by the security forces. He had identified himself with the IRA in South Armagh in the early 1970s, but in later years he was involved with the INLA. He […]
