George Korkala’s address book

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

[…] 323906 335590 Boccicini Tlx 23856 Orsa Tlx 323906 Caracas Siegert Dieter 215 265-0744 Paul Stulcop 516 757-0928 Bill Smith 667-1636 Sveca-Salectric 212 832 1120 C Coniaria Lopez Secret Service 202 566-6940 Gary Huska-????? 634-5819 Lou Mainville 395-6093-94 Doc Carver 634-5894 Sunair – Sue Steadman 305-5251505 Sheraton Damas Tlx 11378 224200 S&D Security 8283661 /2 […]

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Re:

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] of the case studies a revised edition may be necessary. ‘Chemical tests carried out in West…’, Western Daily Press, 16 September 2002; Anon, ‘Demands for probe into secret chemical drops on the West’, Western Daily Press, 25 August 2005; Jane Denny, ‘Experts weigh into our campaign’, Norwich Evening News, 16 September 2005; Adrian Shaw, […]

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My enemy’s enemy…: Museum Street

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

Introduction The mid 1970s was not a good time to be a social democratic ally of the United States. In Britain we had “the Wilson plots’; in Australia Gough Whitlam, Jim Cairns and the Australian Labour Party got Governor Kerr and the CIA; in Germany Willi Brandt resigned after a “security scandal’; in New Zealand … Read more

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Hacks, pols and PR

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

The Triumph of the Political Class Peter Oborne London: Simon & Schuster, 2007, £18.99 Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy Edited by William Dinan and David Miller London: Pluto, 2007, £15.99 End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair CounterPunch and AK Press, Oakland … Read more

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Books and Pamphlets

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] (Mercier Press, Dublin, 1985) This is an intense disappointment. The subtitle – “a study of the vilification of Charles J. Haughey, code-named Operation Brogue by the British Secret Service” – promises much, none of which is delivered. There isn’t a single honest-to-goodness fact in the entire book: no names of agents, no details of […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] Another view of the Afghani mujahidin funding their war with the Soviet Union by selling opium – with the complicity of the US – was in ‘Britain’s secret army’ by Tom Carew in Sunday Times 13 August 2000. Spectre Spectre has been plugged before in these columns as one of the more interesting anti-globalisation, […]

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Why are we with Uncle Sam?

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] who did have the muscle to police the non-communist world. Third, as the US developed global electronic surveillance systems which the British state could not match, our secret servants came to rely on US-generated intelligence. The fourth reason is that a large part of the City of London is now owned by American banks, […]

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Remote Viewing

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] to support his claims. One of the most outrageous claims made is on page 20 where Rifat states that anti Remote Viewing devices are deployed in top secret bases, both in Russia and the USA. There is absolutely no independent evidence produced by Rifat to support this claim. Furthermore I am ill at ease […]

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Advertising, Iraq and espionage

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] not conflict with each other at the level that the target audience perceives them. Meantime it rewarded the memory of dead MICE by signing-up Saddam Hussein’s hated, secret police. According to US logic, all the local agents in Iraq it is desperate to recruit but cannot are MICE; the brave agent executed by Saddam […]

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Sources: Spectre. CAQ, etc

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

Spectre In the last Lobster 35 I reported on the new anti-EU magazine Spectre and wondered about its political orientation. In response, the editor, Steve McGiffen, sent an exemplary piece of candour from which here are some extracts. ‘….. Our original statement, sent out very widely, made it clear that we are minimalist to a […]

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