Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] in our social history, “represents an important, unique direction of right-wing activism. Money not moral pronouncements was its means of persuasion….its methods reveal an underground network of secret subsidies to ‘sympathetic’ politicians and labour leaders, infiltration of government departments, intrigue and industrial spying”. (62) At this distance it hardly matters which trade union leaders […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] double agent operation that may have spurred the Soviets to produce more lethal chemical and biological agents. He was referring to David Wise’s book, Cassidy’s Run: The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas. ………the deception ultimately worked against US interests by spurring the Soviets to develop more lethal chemical and biological agents and may […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] human rights as their concessions to liberalism. The judges take the role of priests in moulding politics along ethical lines. The rise of this new form of secret state should be a matter of the gravest concern because this new system, without trans-national democratic control and with weak or venal legislatures, is, by definition, […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] he helped set up and European magazines which followed its example, the French Intelligence and Parapolitics (later Intelligence) and the German Geheim and its English-language version, Top Secret. This report portrays them all as part of Soviet disinformation strategies. If this was true of Geheim/Top Secret, I don’t think it true of Intelligence. Lobster […]
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 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] authors think that all this discussion of, and the political use made of, intelligence is a grave error: ‘….at the interface between the public world and the secret worlds, the pressure to use intelligence to gain public support for a policy allowed political considerations to feed into the intelligence ass-essment process. The net result […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] wrong by security or intelligence officials. (See for example ‘MPs urge spies curb’ in The Guardian, 3 November 1998 and ‘Investigator to get wide powers to quiz secret service’, The Sunday Telegraph 14 February 1999.) This ‘special investigator’ is, of course, another piece of Whitehall bullshit which will not satisfy the Intelligence and Security […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] (BMEWS) Site III, RAF, England.'(7) In conjunction with this regulation exists US Space Command Regulation 55-20, Warning Verification of Hostile Space Events, dated 31 January 1990, classified secret. ‘This regulation establishes procedures to provide timely and accurate status reporting, warning and verification of hostile space events to National Command Authorities (NCA), collatoral agencies, space […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] known but occasionally cannot resist a good conspiracy theory. He tells us, for example, on p. 71: ‘1969-72 The CIA, with apparent DOD co-operation, undertakes a super secret domestic operation to “neutralize” America’s already acid-drenched “counterculture” of dissident white youth by rendering it “psychologically dysfunctional”. The means employed is a flood, not only of […]
Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
[…] the population, and at least 50% of those files were on people without a criminal record. Perhaps it is over-stating things to call such intelligence gathering a ‘secret’; similar figures have emerged in the past. But it is certainly something the police are none too keen that the public should be aware of, and […]
