Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. In 1953-4, as the Eisenhower Administration faced growing KMT resistance to its proposed disengagement from Korea and Indochina, so also the CIA disengaged somewhat from its disreputable OPC proteges in Thailand as their opium trafficking became notorious. By 1959, Council on Foreign Relations spokesmen, backed by the influential CIA-backed … Read more
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 43 (Summer 2002) £££
Crime fighting? There must many candidates for the title ‘The most damaging thing I have read about this government’. My current candidate is a piece by Simon Jenkins, ‘A Keep Police off the Streets Strategy Unit’ (The Times 2 February 2002). After reminding the reader that in the UK the police are a local service, … Read more
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] Yet the KGB and State Department reports, based respectively on the testimony of Kim Philby, the Czech intelligence chief Colonel Moravetz, and Churchill’s personal link to the security and intelligence services, Sir Desmond Morton, all point to one fact: Hess came with Hitler’s backing so that the British would stand on the sidelines when […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] serious damage with this. Glenmore Trenear-Harvey, who commented regularly on Hutton on television, sent out an e-mail in September, pointing out: ‘….when one of the Cabinet Office Security Policy Division wonks writes on 21 July 2003 (CAB /18/0065) to John Scarlett (with a copy to Sir David Oman) regarding leaks to the media of […]
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 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] to bring all this material together before. And don’t be misled by the title: this is much more than an account of the South African intelligence and security agencies. Indeed, in some ways for the general reader, that will be the least interesting strand in the book. For, although the names of the main […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
NuLab and Uncle Sam In the last issue I discussed the research by Giles Scott-Smith on the US State Department’s funding of a big freebie trip to the US for Mrs Thatcher in 1967, after the US embassy in London had spotted her as a possible future prime minister. Scott-Smith has more information on the … Read more
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 […]
