[…] with FBI agents and other dirty tricksters, but Huey Newton was living in a luxury Oakland penthouse in 1971, overlooking Lake Merritt, and I doubt that ‘ security’ was the only reason. By 1978 I was living on the other side of the lake, and Newton was still considered politically correct as he returned […]
[…] other ‘squires’, the Dorset forester, farmer and folk-dancer Rolf Gardiner, and the East Kent landowner Lord Northbourne. Gardiner’s sympathies for Germany have been well documented; the British security services were so wary of him that he was denied access to post-war Germany for some years. His defenders claim that he was a naïve romantic […]
[…] Sanders, ‘There was a long silence. Finally, someone said, “Oops.”‘(39) Immediately there was a hurried meeting between the most senior people present. They quickly announced that National Security was being invoked. Destroying the messenger The day following the Press-Enterprise article, Sanders sent his other residue sample to CBS so they could run independent tests […]
[…] traditional boundaries and areas of responsibilities, with access to classified and unrestricted information…’ Sebestyen Gorka and Richard Sullivan, ‘Biological toxins: A bioweapon threat in the 21st century’, Security Dialogue, 33 (2) (June 2002), pp 141-156. The Cold War The Congress of Cultural Freedom’s ‘The Future of Freedom’ Conference held in Milan in 1955 is […]
[…] – Eugene Deloncle and a certain Filliol – were such enthusiastic collaborators that they were in contact with General Max Thomas, who headed the Gestapo and S.S. Security Service (S. D.) forces in France in 1941. In October of that year, those same leaders arranged for the bombing of synagogues in Paris on behalf […]
See also Part 1 in Lobster 5 Ian Macgregor and AMAX We have followed one of Macgregor’s leads into the British Establishment; now we return to the man himself. He was born in 1912 in Kinlochleven and graduated from Glasgow University with a BSc in metallurgical engineering. He was a trainee manager at the British … Read more
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
[…] decided to officially declare its existence as the UDA becomes more weak, ineffectual and incapable of defending Protestant workers and working class homes against attacks by the Security Forces. Composed of more socialist orientated and class conscious members of the UDA, the Army came into being as a result of growing dissatisfaction and frustration […]
[…] barring them from entering the country. The list here is nothing short of amazing: Oliver North himself, retired air force major general Richard Secord, Reagan’s former national security advisor John Poindexter, former U.S. Ambassador Lewis Tambs, and former CIA station chief Joseph Fernandez. On July 22, 1989, the Associated Press ran this story, but […]
Charlie Bubbles One of Lobster’s contributors had dinner a few years ago with Charlie Falconer, the current Lord Chancellor, and reported that he was a fount of information on the B-sides of pop singles of the 1960s. Well, pop-pickers, our civil liberties are safe in his hands then. Or not. As New Labour prepares to … Read more
