Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] such as ‘national security’ have been used to meet a variety of perceived threats. En route she discusses intelligently, if not originally, the major encounters between the secret state and its opponents and/or victims. Because there is so much information in this period, inevitably the most interesting and most detailed section is on the […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) Spooks (Lobster 22) The official response to the ‘Who’s who’ Lobster […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] Research Department (IRD). It is generally accepted that IRD was the brain-child of the then Labour M.P. Christopher Mayhew, who had served in one of the ‘ secret armies’ (The Phantoms) and the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the war. The received chronology is that as the result of a paper written by Mayhew […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] of June 23 had been delayed. What the Task Force did not know was that in the week of June 20, LLM was conducting ‘highly sensitive’ and secret negotiations with the Government to effectively exempt out-of-town car parks from most of the tax, a deal worth £20 million or more to Tesco’s. That week, […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust Ed. David Bankier New York: Enigma Books, 2006. p/b, $23 US Intelligence and the Nazis Richard Breitman et al New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, p/b, £16.99 On 11 January 1943, the British intercepted ‘one of the most extraordinary messages’ of the war at Bletchley Park: it […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] a Soviet agent’. Wright’s friend James Angleton, head of the CIA’s counter-intelligence division, had been at that 1967 meeting and, as a result, had used his super- secret Special Investigation Group to investigate Brandt. The SIG, basically Angleton and a couple of his right-wing cronies, concluded that Brandt was “a KGB agent’. Wright later […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] a million-dollar inheritance’ and could call on contacts in ‘Parisian radical circles’ (chapter 9); on his own account he had spent the early sixties working on ‘top secret projects’ at the US Department of Defense (chapter 2). To all intents and purposes, Stark appeared out of nowhere in 1969. Details are equally thin after […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] of the book is as good as this is, we are in for a treat. “So marked was the Anglo-American rapprochement that many informed people suspected a secret alliance had been concluded … the Kaiser in later years believed that the Fatherland had been encircled since 1897 by a secret Anglo-American understanding.” Charles S. […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] did, in fact, know the identity of the supplier. In his book on Lord Lucan, ‘Trail of Havoc’, published in 1987, he wrote: “The first of the Secret Service information packs to reach Private Eye had come by the way of The Times in 1974. A reporter on the paper had started to check […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] ‘Thatcherism’ into the ‘New Labour’ project. The Advisory Board Martin JacquesHis time in the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) has been portrayed as one of deception, secret funding, rigged ballots, suspected secret service penetration and lunatic purges.(1) His development of ‘Euro-communism’ and Marxism Today (MT) further undermined the basis of Marxism in the […]
