Project Beta: The Story of Paul Bennewitz, national security and the creation of a modern UFO myth

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] Bennewitz, eventually wrote the script for an episode of The X Files! The author thinks that this disinformation began as a means of misdirecting Bennewitz away from secret US Air Force operations; but I wonder. The thing to do with an inquisitive businessman who makes his living selling electronic kit to the US government […]

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The meaning of the QinetiQ scandal

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] The Iron Triangle, under Carlucci it became ‘a towering presence in the world of wealth, power and politics…a company whose history includes ties to CIA cover-ups and secret arms deals, and an astounding trail of corporate cronyism’. After 9/11, it was to be ‘the beneficiary of the largest increase in defence spending in history’. […]

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The Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] book such as this invites readers to construct their own wish-list of topics that really should have been included. I would probably include a wider selection of secret and security services and their misdeeds, including South Africa’s apartheid era BOSS and the French sinkers of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior; an investigation into the murky world […]

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Steady as she goes: Labour and the spooks

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] MI5 officer, David Shayler, turned up bearing bad news about MI5, Straw bolted for respectability, proving a worthy inheritor of the Labour tradition of grovelling towards our secret servants exemplified by Merlyn Rees in the Callaghan Government. David Aaronovitch in the Independent on Sunday (9 April 1998) gave us an insight into Cabinet thinking […]

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The League of Empire Loyalists and the Defenders of the American Constitution

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] right, and Knupffer, see Kevin Coogan, Dreamer of the Day (New York: Autonomedia, 1999) pp. 598-615, and Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service (New York: The Free Press, 2000), especially chapters 20 and 21. 17 Knupffer based his views on the idea that the CIA, acting at […]

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Michael Ledeen again

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] light in the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). After leaving the United States for Italy he is known to have had close connections with the Italian secret service (SISMI) when living in Rome in the mid-1970s, in part through his associate Francesco Pazienza and his links to the Propaganda Due (P2) masonic network […]

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NASA, Nazis & JFK: the Torbitt Document and the JFK Assassination

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] any evidence that it ever existed; and if anyone has any, I would like to see it.) The book opens with two photographs of Area 51, the secret US Air Force base in Nevada which has been the object of much recent conspiracy-mongering. Why Area 51? You may well ask. But start with NASA, […]

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ELF update

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] merely an account of a psychologist spectating on her own break-down. But this is strikingly similar to the experience of Girard. (And those who have read Open Secret, Tony Collins’ account of the strange deaths of a number of British scientists, will hear in this certain obvious resonances with some of the “suicides’ in […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] This second has multiple, named sources and is more likely to be true. If it is true, how dumb of the Iraqis to try all this in secret! Had they gone to the United Nations and said this – who knows? And did Prime Minister Blair know of these offers? It would rather awkward […]

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Notes from the underground part 3: British fascism 1983-6

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] about Special Branch activity against the party’,(47) and Griffin in particular concentrated throughout this period on writing detailed and hostile stories covering the nefarious activities of the secret state and political police.(48) Theoretical articles are one thing, but in this case there were practical consequences arising from this concern about ‘state repression’. For a […]

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