Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] he doesn’t have the evidence. The temptation to make dramatic statements shows elsewhere. On p.262, of the Kennedy assassination, he writes: ‘Meanwhile, General Walker, the far-right American Security Council (including General Lansdale and Air America Chairman Admiral Felix Stump) and Texas ultras started plotting their coup d’etat in Dallas.’ He presents no evidence of […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] replied in the issue of 22 October, claimed to be bored with O’Hara (after smearing him for nearly a year!), but admitted he had dealings with the security services (unspecified). October also saw Alexander Baron’s curiously titled Editors! Are You Being Fed A Load Of Bullshit? You Are If You Subscribe to Searchlight: A […]
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 4 (1984) £££
[…] Diplomatic intercepts by GCHQ were also helpful to the US during the build-up to the 1972 Paris peace conference. President Nixon and Dr. Henry Kissinger, then National Security Adviser, attached great importance to the mood of the North Vietnamese and the Hong Kong station’s information, which suggested that Hanoi was far from capitulating, led […]
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 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] were the result of a ‘clerical error’. A Special Branch officer, flown out to India, later admitted that the erasures had been done ‘on advice from the security service’. (Eastern Eye 4 June) The second concerns Detective Sergeant Michael Hill of Hertfordshire CID who stumbled upon one of the many crooked deals being conducted […]
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 16 (1988) £££
[…] the other hand some of their political aims are exposed. May I quote an excerpt from this article: “England’s action may undermine the prospects of a European Security Conference and may deter talks concerning balanced armament limitations.” Could that be the basis of long-range plans of English-American leaders concerning the NATO aggressive bloc? Question […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] on Nader in the latest issue of Steamshovel. My second observation concerns Jonathan Moyle, the ‘gung ho Queen and country man’ you mention in your article on security agencies, who died after making inquiries into a helicopter deal between the Iraqis and Chilean arms dealer Carlos Cardoen. You discuss this as one of several […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] Eamon McMahon, McArdle says: “McMahon, a debonair type, was a Republican from a fiercely Nationalist family. He was generally recognised as a shadowy paramilitary activist by the security forces. He had identified himself with the IRA in South Armagh in the early 1970s, but in later years he was involved with the INLA. He […]
