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 17 (1988) £££
[…] damage to the Afghan supply line may go further than just those killed in the crash. If the joint American/Pakistan inquiry blames sabotage or a lack of security for the crash, Lt. Gen. Ahmad Gul will almost certainly have to step down as head of the powerful Inter Services Intelligence organisation, ISI. As head […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] controversies over the Iraq war reflected the disquiet many in the British state – elements within the Treasury, the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign Office and the security services – felt but were unable to articulate within the tight regime Blair had around him in his war planning with Bush. An elite divided The […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] up. As did most people, I think. But ‘West’ is now taken seriously by some people: he is a professor in the expanding field of intelligence and security studies; and, let it be noted, he is not Professor Rupert Allason but Professor Nigel West. (Is he the first academic to be employed under a […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] There is no way Leigh has any sympathies with fascism, national socialism, racialism or anti-semitism. (Incidentally, his close friend and co-founder of the Coalition For Peace Through Security, Julian Lewis, is Jewish.)” From Ace R. Hayes, Oregon, USA. “Re: Shooting the Pope. I have fired thousands of rounds through all sorts of hand guns. […]
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 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] career of Noel Pemberton-Billing (1881-1948). Substantial original research has been carried out to bolster the key finding in the text: Pemberton-Billing was used in 1917/18 by the security services and the ultra-right (of which he was a keen member) to smear and damage a number of mainstream politicians, mainly the Asquith Liberals, who were […]
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 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] conversation with the author, October 1996. Advisory Committee on Human radiation Experiment , CIA record number CIA-071095-A. Dr. James H. Huddleson to Chief, Technical Branch, Office of Security, ‘Conference with Dr. Webb Haymaker’, November 4 1953. Op. cit. 17. Church Committee Report, Book 1, p. 395, states that one of the three principal functions […]
