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 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] serious damage with this. Glenmore Trenear-Harvey, who commented regularly on Hutton on television, sent out an e-mail in September, pointing out: ‘….when one of the Cabinet Office Security Policy Division wonks writes on 21 July 2003 (CAB /18/0065) to John Scarlett (with a copy to Sir David Oman) regarding leaks to the media of […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] each empire’s respective path. Like the first Americans, the Viking Rus of Kiev had to fight their way towards the Pacific in pursuit of territorial gain and security. Americans distortedly see their origins in the pious ‘Pilgrim Fathers’ fleeing from religious persecution on The Mayflower in the 1620s. The earlier European colonists and the […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] to bring all this material together before. And don’t be misled by the title: this is much more than an account of the South African intelligence and security agencies. Indeed, in some ways for the general reader, that will be the least interesting strand in the book. For, although the names of the main […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
PART 1 See also Part 2 in Lobster 6 Most Western political scientists, following in the traditions of Marx or Weber, scorn the study of secret and occult societies as irrelevant to understanding the politics of the age. In their view, politics can best be understood as the working out, in public arenas, of bureaucratic, … 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 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] anarchist group (unfortunately penetrated by Franco’s agents), upon his return to the UK in 1967, not surprisingly, he became a major focus of attention for the British security services, especially Special Branch. (How many explosive-toting anarchists did they have in the UK at the time?) There is much on Christie’s encounters with the boys […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
The Israel Lobby John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt London: Allen Lane, 2007, £25 This account of the relationship between the ‘Israel lobby’ in the US, the US state and Israel should be required reading for anyone with an interest – personal, professional or political – in the troubled affairs of the Middle East. … Read more
Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
[…] throughout the country, and I can only assume that it was believed. After all, one would think that the former Director of Naval Intelligence and the National Security Agency would know with some precision where he was when this country was undergoing its greatest political crisis of this century. Indeed, to think otherwise is […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] of, I believe, by the Katz and Norton-Tayor article. I never met Rusbridger but enjoyed his letters and shared his lack of regard for the intelligence and security services. His disparaging critics on the right, however, were almost certainly correct in claiming that he had few sources within the spook community. His The Intelligence […]
