Two Sides of Ireland (Book reviews)

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] as an MI6 source. Kelly records that Crinnion was in fact the chief confidential clerk of C3 and, as such, had access to all of C3’s most secret files. Kelly also details (and Bloch and Fitzgerald omit) the complicated bargaining conducted by Eire and the UK after the Littlejohn/Wyman/Crinnion exposures. Kelly describes how, a […]

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Freedom of Information — new access legislation

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] inform you where it is. Absolute exemptions are not subject to any public interest test, and include information supplied by, or concerning: the Security Service, MI5; the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6; GCHQ; the Special Forces, e.g. the SAS; tribunals concerning intelligence and interception of communications including the Investigatory Powers Tribunal; and the National Criminal […]

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Web Update

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

Many thanks, as always, to Terry Hanstock for contributions. Comments and contributions welcome. My email is ‘War on Terrorism’: Repercussions of 11 Sept. 2001 The Sept 11 2001 attacks on the US and subsequent ‘war against terrorism’ have provided law enforcement/intelligence agencies with an opportunity to push for sweeping new powers, plus fast-tracking of … Read more

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Fifth Column. New directions for parapolitics: investigating the trans-national security elite

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] formulation and the techniques used to communicate ideas and mobilise mass action in support of those ideas. Above all, we need get inside the mind of the secret state, to start thinking a bit harder about why it behaves as it does – domestically and internationally. What it thinks as a group is intimately […]

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] Studies San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182-8143 http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~remoore From Donovan Pedelty While fully acknowledging the pertinence to my theme of the ‘ secret state’ referred to by Raymond Challinor in his generous review of my book, The Rape of Socialism (Lobster 37) in defences of my street cred as […]

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Let my people go

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

Extracts from an address by John Allman, Secretary of Christians Against Mental Slavery, to the civil rights rally in Houston, Texas, on 30 July 2004. My name is John Allman. I am honoured to have been invited to come here from England to talk to you about a new danger facing all mankind. A favourite … Read more

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A Letter from Kenn Thomas

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] reviewed books which explicitly condemn CIA nation-building involvement in the creation of Qaddafy’s state. Best, Kenn Thomas Steamshovel Press POB 23715 St. Louis, MO 63121 http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma Notes See The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro by Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith, Feral House, POB 3466, Portland OR 97208, $19.95. See Books, below.

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Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] Iraq and Earl Brian, corrupt functionary of the Reagan administration, for an illegal sale of the PROMIS software. Moyle no doubt imagined himself to be a super secret agent; Casolaro wanted fodder for a novel. The juxtaposition of their deaths, and the others connected the pursuit of this Octopus power bloc, says a little […]

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Who’s afraid of the KGB

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] the time.) It’s hard to understand why this thesis is so interesting to Encounter’s editor. All the Allies were playing complex games during the war; all had secret plans for the post-war years; all ran deceptions on allies as well as enemies. On this, on the British side, see, for example, the sections on […]

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A Century of Spin

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] reader that this is not about a conspiracy. Or rather it’s about lots of them: ‘Yes, they plan and organise with each other, but there is no secret conspiracy operating behind the visible front. The visible front does just what it says on the tin – it aims to run the world.’ (p. 81) […]

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