Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] assertions are closely argued at considerable length (some 400 pages), these are almost entirely based on supposition, anonymous sources, and documentary evidence that supposedly exists in some secret archive. Having said that, there are some interesting snippets along the way, (9) the most interesting one concerning Camilla Parker-Bowles’ car crash two months before Diana’s […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] a grouping like the Chartists might have instigated the whole thing.It seems reasonably certain that the Short forgeries were the work of some branch of the British secret state and were part of the attempts in 1974-76 to discredit the Labour governments of Harold Wilson. Ted Knight fits perfectly the role of the ‘deep […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] of oil per day (mbd). In 2004 the capacity was demonstrated to be 10 mbd. (p. xiii) As information regarding the reserves is ‘treated as a state secret’ (p. xiv) Simmons relied on in-depth research of many technical papers, not the least of those which give details of reports on water injection requirements. (Water […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] that in Britain’s shaky post-war situation economic information should be given a high priority. It was indeed satisfying when a single report could pay for the annual Secret Vote several times over. This was the pattern which, in his later appointments, Young attempted to set for the whole service. One report, however, did not […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
Introduction In early January the American writer Martin Cannon, whose ‘Mind Control and the American Government’, was published in Lobster 23, and who has a very interesting letter in this issue, offered me a big piece of his on the so-called Gemstone File. Cannon had got access to some of the original documents on which … 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 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] Mitrokhin to supplement his MI6 pension. The spooks’ chosen ghost-writer, Christopher Andrew, is a disingenuous creep who has sold out his academic integrity to slavishly toe the secret state’s party line in return for celebrity and book sales. (He is also vain and insufferably smug — he smirks, as someone once remarked, not like […]
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 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] senior Special Branch officer? I believe him but others might be more sceptical. More to the point, saints are somewhat thin on the ground inside the British secret state. An Ulster Protestant from County Tyrone, Phoenix had served in the Parachute Regiment before joining the RUC in 1970. He was a hard man. On […]
