Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] containing it is withheld from the Public Record Office in London for the next seventy years. According to Britain’s Foreign Secretary to release it would harm national security. That some such message was received by the Americans on 26 November was later confirmed by the Army enquiry which sat from July to October 1944, […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
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
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
Cherie Blair: Speaking for Myself Cherie Blair London: Little, Brown, 2008, h/b, £18.99 The relentless harrying of Neil Kinnock by the Murdoch press at the time of the 1992 general election outraged Labour Party people, among them Cherie Blair. This was the general election when The Sun proudly boasted that it was its continual … Read more
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] were the result of a ‘clerical error’. A Special Branch officer, flown out to India, later admitted that the erasures had been done ‘on advice from the security service’. (Eastern Eye 4 June) The second concerns Detective Sergeant Michael Hill of Hertfordshire CID who stumbled upon one of the many crooked deals being conducted […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] on Nader in the latest issue of Steamshovel. My second observation concerns Jonathan Moyle, the ‘gung ho Queen and country man’ you mention in your article on security agencies, who died after making inquiries into a helicopter deal between the Iraqis and Chilean arms dealer Carlos Cardoen. You discuss this as one of several […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] No 6, as anyone who has attempted to transcribe 3 hours of conversation will appreciate). The edited conversation, ranging across the Vietnam war, the role of ‘national security intellectuals’ and, of course, the assassination of Kennedy, will be in No 7. To our knowledge this will be the first time Scott – in our […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] dynamic employment market and to stimulating research and innovation. A stronger European continent must also take into consideration the consolidation of other determining factors such as: the security of our external frontiers; an adequate migration policy; a firm defence policy able to respond to the changing international scenario; a common foreign policy that can […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
Introduction In 1967 the CIA sent out to ‘Chiefs, Certain Stations and bases’ a briefing document, Dispatch Document 1035- 960, titled ‘Countering Criticism of the Warren Report’. This unintentionally very revealing and faintly comic document was reproduced in issue 2 of the now defunct newsletter, The Dorff Report in March 1990. In view of the … Read more
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
Francis Beckett and David Hencke London: Aurum Press, 2004, £18.99, h/b According to Beckett and Hencke, in the late 1980s Nigel Lawson could never understand why Tony Blair was a member of the Labour Party rather than of the Conservative Party. This question subsequently occurred to a growing number of Labour Party members and … Read more
