The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] of Hennessy’s books. His Cabinet, for example, is full of interesting bits and pieces. But like most British political scientists, Hennessy is wholly unwilling to discuss the secret arms of the British state. In his most recent book, a series of interviews he did for Radio 4 published as Muddling Through; Power, Politics and […]

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Philanthropic imperialism

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

Democracy building or democracy assistance, is a putative socio-economic policy solution, which, because of the extent of the political and economic forces impacting on it, has become a contemporary socio-economic problem. Democracy building’s institutional formation rests upon a reconfiguration of Cold War positions that retain, what Dr. Michael Pinto-Duschinsky termed ‘such interference,’(1)so as to continue … Read more

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Sex and Rockets: the occult world of Jack Parsons

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] Laboratory – hence the view in the book that Parsons had a role (of some kind ) in the US space programme. Reuss was also a German secret agent. The OTO were regarded as an espionage ring in many parts of Europe. Crowley and his group were expelled from France in 1929 as a […]

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MacV-Sog Command History: Annexes A, N, and M (1964-66)

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] own study of those elite soldiers, Green Berets at War (New York, Dell, 1987); a survey of clandestine action in Vietnam by Kevin M. Generous, Vietnam: The Secret War (London, Bison, 1985), and T. L. Bosiljevac’s book on U.S. Navy commandos, SEALS (New York, Ivy, 1991). These provided several insights, but a volume devoted […]

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The Ulster Citizen Army smear

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] the UCA as a real if somewhat mysterious group. (According to Wallace the Information Policy paper was written by Jeremy Railton, sometime head of Inf Pol, the secret psychological operations unit for which Wallace worked.) It could be argued, of course, that were the UCA a psychological operation the British state forces would do […]

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Obituaries

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] was occasionally inclined to unsupported conspiracy theorising towards the end of his life, Prouty was the author of one of the best books about the CIA, The Secret Team. A senior military officer with years of experience liaising with the CIA for the Pentagon, Prouty wrote a full-bore assault on the Agency. It was […]

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Spooks – U.S.

Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

[…] DCIA Casey. 14. Maj. Gen. Richard B. Collins, charged IHT report (19th July 1983) on forthcoming trial of Maj. Gen. Richard B. Collins, charged with ripping-off a secret Air Force fund kept in Swiss banks to finance covert ops. Collins’ lawyer says Collins will detail the way the fund was used for military and […]

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JFK, the FBI and the Cambridge phone call

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] there is good circumstantial evidence he knew the identity of the caller – John Lewis, a fellow Labour MP. See Anthony Summers and Stephen Dorril’s Honeytrap: The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987), pp. 141-2. And, further, David Thurlow’s Profumo: The Hate Factor (London: Robert Hale, 1992), pp. 92-3. Michael […]

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Clippings Digest: August – November 1984

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

[…] system should be copied: Secretary of State for Northern Ireland appoints members of police authority and they have to sign Official Secrets Act, and they meet in secret. (Guardian 9 November) (e) and National Reporting Centre CC Knight of West Midlands admits NRC is ordering local police forces to send police to pits. (Guardian […]

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Let the Petals Fall

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] became the 4th Duke of Westminster in 1963, as well as with Joe. Not even when Diana Petrie wrote a book about her father in 1975, The Secret Orchard of Roger Ackerley, did the secret about Sally come out. Joe Ackerley took credit for having introduced the policeman, Bob Buckingham, to E.M. Forster who […]

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