Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] be developed and adopted. The ‘empirical’ chapters which follow deal, respectively, with single market policy, competition policy, EMU, the CAP, social policy, the ‘third pillar’ (aka ‘freedom, security and justice’) and external policies. Of the most significant policy areas, then, only the environment is missing, a curious omission when you consider its increasing importance […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] MI6 station chief Budapest 1941 (Letter, The Times, 22 April 1991). Douglas Gordon: British Consul-General Aden, expelled for spying (Sunday Correspondent 26 August 1990). J. Johnston: Radio Security Service in WW2 (letter, Sunday Telegraph 12 August 1990). Group Captain William Cross: Expelled Algeria (Independent 15 April 1991). John Peskett: “Former Intelligence Officer’ (letter, Sunday […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] the extraordinary difficulties in funnelling information from the bottom to the top of a bureaucracy as large and as politicised as that of the United States national security structure. The second is that there is too much information; and there would be even more if the FBI/NSA/CIA had enough translators of the various languages […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] him of the difficulties he had himself faced as Burgess’ and Philby’s close colleague in Washington in 1951… And it was these same “guardians of the nation’s security”, according to my Chief Whip, Michael St Aldwyn, who ad-vised Edward Heath that he would be running a risk of scandal if he retained me as […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] for that is what ‘the national interest’ means. But what is the ‘British economic interest’? British economic interests? The annual report for 2004/5 of the Intelligence and Security Committee noted in chapter 13 under the heading ‘Economic well-being’: ‘We took evidence from Ministers, departments and the Agencies on the Agencies’ work to support and […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] ‘briefings’ put out by IRD in the 1970s and is proof that while IRD may have officially closed, its functions continue in other guises. Canadian Association For Security And Intelligence Studies Newsletter Issue 10 arrived, chock full of news and details of books recent and forthcoming in the intelligence field. It includes a couple […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] is a very rough paraphrase indeed.) Fluoride was used in very large quantities by the WW2 nuclear programmes. Its toxic effects were known but suppressed — ‘national security’. The early research showing that it was ‘safe’ was done by scientists working on nukes in the late 40s and early 1950s whose affiliations with the […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] of MI5. Our fearless journalist reports that ‘Sir Steven had clearly been shaken by cruel and untimely remarks made by Tom King, chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee.’ Poor baby! How fortunate that EYE SPY! was there to sympathise. Unnamed fearless reporter continues: ‘The Director-General should never have been put in this position.’ […]
Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££
[…] washing experiments under MK Ultra are suing the US government. There is a suggestion that the UK government was involved in similar operations. Part of the surviving CIA documentation on MK Ultra (most was destroyed on Helms’ orders) reads: “allied governments where the security services has people under its control.” New Scientist 2nd Feb. 1984
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] on paper only. By 1933 the UK Chiefs of Staff had isolated Germany, Japan and Italy as the most dangerous threats to British national and to Imperial security. General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley suggested that the scenario was absurd and must have been drawn up in an attempt to extract funds from the US Government. […]
