Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] broadcast with the following announcement: ‘Good Morning Listeners. Good Morning to you patriots. You are tuned to the right wing wireless station Radio Enoch broadcasting from a secret location somewhere in England. Radio Enoch is operated by the right-wing pressure organisation People Against Marxism. Unlike the overtly Socialist British Broadcasting Corporation and Independent Broadcasting […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] by MI6. Even if this is true the Observer’s staff list since the war under Astor contains a number people suspected of serving secretly in Her Majesty’s Secret Service. It would hardly be a surprise to discover at some point that MI6 had a hand in funding the Observer in the post-war years. The […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] the US National Reconnaissance Office’s (NRO) reactions to my FOIA requests. Almost every document NRO has compiled in the process of my FOIA requests have been classified Secret or Top Secret. These are not records I have requested, but records NRO has created in the process of handling my FOIA requests. In response to […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] in 1985, Ashdown was named as having been in MI6 by Steve Dorril, in the first batch of what eventually became the Who’s Who of the British Secret State. Though I cannot remember why Dorril thought this and though there is nothing specific in Ashdown’s known career which says ‘intelligence’, the career move from […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] regime at home. Publicising what the British state most wanted kept in the cupboard seemed a good idea. But these days, dozens of books about our ‘ secret services’ later, the ‘Secret’ Intelligence Service flaunting its bureaucratic muscle in that shiny, new building on the Thames, we have intelligence stories everywhere. Mere collating of […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] informed by a retired senior Ministry of Defence civil servant and I am aware of other sources. Duncan Campbell of the New Statesman was informed of highly secret signals exchanged between London and the British Embassy in Washington concerning the deployment. He and John Rentoul published this information as part of the ‘Belgrano Papers’ […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] Zia’s hardline policy of direct military assistance to the more radical Islamic fundamentalist rebel groups fighting the government of Najibullah (himself a former head of the Afghan secret police). In the political hiatus caused by the crash, Gul’s removal would cripple the Afghan supply operation. (3) Perhaps because of this, the Americans are making […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] half-brother Barzan’. Another report, in the Australian Herald Sun, ‘Execution claim on Abu Nidal’, (1) had it that Nidal was executed by ‘by Iraqi president Saddam Hussein’s secret police for refusing to train al-Qaeda fighters’. This report came from ‘Iraqi dissidents’ and was supported by Con Coughlin, ‘a Middle East expert’. Couglin’s version, ‘Saddam […]
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 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] at Kincora Boys Home, his murky links with Unionist politicians and layers of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), via TARA, nor on his later role as a secret state asset. () At the same time the authors show how many contradictory forces were brought together in the early UDA many of which were […]