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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Miscellaneous: With Friends like these

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] him of the difficulties he had himself faced as Burgess’ and Philby’s close colleague in Washington in 1951… And it was these same “guardians of the nation’s security”, according to my Chief Whip, Michael St Aldwyn, who ad-vised Edward Heath that he would be running a risk of scandal if he retained me as […]

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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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Armed Madhouse

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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/. 3 I got 279,000 Google hits for ‘Diebold + voting machines + organised crime’. The first couple […]

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The CIA and The Paris Review

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] Plimpton served as editor of The Paris Review, he was an agent of influence for the CIA, according to a former ambassador who served on the National Security Council. That is, he was not an intelligence officer as Matthiessen was, but one of the many journalists who were paid sub rosa to penetrate the […]

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Historical Notes: Anglo-American Conflict? UK becomes a US intelligence target

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] on paper only. By 1933 the UK Chiefs of Staff had isolated Germany, Japan and Italy as the most dangerous threats to British national and to Imperial security. General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley suggested that the scenario was absurd and must have been drawn up in an attempt to extract funds from the US Government. […]

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Sources. Publications etc

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] is it the ‘organ of the Platform “Fortress Europe?” and of the Geneva Group…. an informal international network concerned with European harmonisation in the fields of international security, policing, justice, data protection, immigration and asylum and its effects on fundamental rights and liberties’. The February 1996 issue, no. 41, for example, contains material on […]

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Margaret Thatcher: Vol 1: The Grocer’s Daughter

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] a man who, by his own admission, spent virtually the whole of the post-war period working for British and American intelligence. His role in educating Thatcher on security and intelligence issues with his Shield group of old spooks is omitted and his memoir is not included in the author’s bibliography. ISC and NAFF are […]

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Changing the guard: Notes on the Round Table network and its offspring

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

The journal, The Round Table, originally the public face of the secret Round Table network, has reappeared after folding in the late 1970s. It’s new editorial board includes MPs Donald Anderson, Guy Barnett, Robert Jackson, Robert Rhodes-James, and Cabinet Minister Timothy Raison. Other well-known names about London’s elite circles involved are D.C. Watt and Alexander … Read more

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