Harassment by the state

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] of SIS. There it was again: break-ins, pranks, things left in the house, nuisance calls – the familiar repertoire. Which is to say: we still have a secret state whose legal, intelligence and security wings are virtually unregulated. There are now elaborate procedures mimicking regulation – both Kennedy and Henderson are exploring these – […]

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Things Israeli

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] their decision-making, prove that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are being adhered to word by word, by the Jewish influenced Western Governments.” Taking Sides: America’s Secret Relations With A Militant Israel 1948-68 Stephen Green, Faber and Faber, London 1984 In which author Green gets access to US archives and pulls out some […]

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Yo, Blair!

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] (So what would it take?) In 1983 when Lobster began, one of the ideas behind it was the suspicion that the spooks were a kind of ‘ secret government’. The invasion of Iraq demonstrated very clearly that political power in the US and UK resides in the little groups around the prime minister and […]

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UK Eyes Alpha: the Inside Story of British Intelligence

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] had something to do with the cost of Trident/Polaris swallowing up the available military budgets. Nonetheless, this a considerable step forward in our understanding – and demystification – of Whitehall’s secret warriors. Notes 1 John Ware has his uses, doesn’t he? Rubbishing Wallace and getting Wright to admit it was all nonsense. Nice one, John.

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SISies: MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations and A Life: A. J. Ayer

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] be called Danubia. This wasn’t simply pie-in-the-sky politics. In March 1942 the Deputy of British Security Coordination in New York, Charles Ellis, revealed the existence of the secret subsidy to Donovan, head of OSS, with a view to the Americans taking over the funding. Donovan had little faith in Habsburg but was willing to […]

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Paranoia is what the other guy has

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] to claims of a conspiracy in the deaths of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King were happy to peddle fantastic tales of a conspiracy between the Bulgarian secret service and a Turkish neo-fascist.(Just as they were later prepared to promote the idea that Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein were conspiring together against the West. Notice, […]

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Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] Perry said Elwell’s 30-year service to his country in MI5 should properly remain a ‘closed book’. The nearest the congregation heard of the work of the senior secret policeman who smeared many on the left in British public life during the Cold War as being under Soviet influence was the reading from Henry Fielding’s […]

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Right Woos Left; Populist Party, LaRouchian and other neo-fascist overtures to Progressives; and why they must be rejected

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] worked for a Liberty-published anti-Zionist newsletter; Prouty allowed the Liberty front, the Institute for Historical Review, part of the Holocaust denial lobby, to republish his book The Secret Team. (Lane presents, without comment, Liberty Lobby founder Willis Carto’s denial of anti-semitism in his recent book, Plausible Denial, reviewed elsewhere in this issue.) Almost everyone […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] the Atlantic in the form of 244 spools of 16 mm film and 8 spools of 32 mm film containing over 400,000 pages of sensitive and top- secret information about hundreds of thousands of Danish citizens, enabling the American authorities to reject “unsuitable” individuals applying for visas.’ We may reasonably presume that Denmark was […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] up MI5 Chief Sir Stephen Lander (new chief not in yet) in the Index, his column ref. is ….. ‘666’. If you look up the Security Service, Secret Intelligence Services, GCHQ, in the Index …..you guessed it: all their references are ‘666’. The book is 550 pages long and it has 1491 column references. […]

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