Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
Psi Spies: The true story of America’s psychic warfare programme Jim Marrs Franklin Lakes, New Jersey; New Page Books (newpagebooks.com), 2007, $15.99, p/b I’m not a fan of Marrs. I didn’t think much of his JFK book, Crossfire; and his The Terror Conspiracy (which isn’t included in his CV on the rear cover, for […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] victims that the beating and expropriation is going to be good for them! Bilderberg news The Sunday Times of 13 January 2000 ran a piece, ‘Stop the New World Order, they want to get off’, attacking those who oppose the globalisation process. The authors, John Mickle thwait and Adrian Woolridge, ‘work for the Economist‘, […]
Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
[…] view for long. Academics, whether they believe him or not, will never take the book seriously because there is so little documentation. Yet as a source of new hypotheses on the postwar years it must be without precedent in this country. Verrier has quietly eased the lids on a great many cans of worms. […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] involved and Searchlight’s continuing grip on media analyses of the far right. For their part, C18 still declare themselves to be ‘At War With The British State’.(21) Notes Interviews given to The Order, issue 1, April 1993, p. 9 and Terreur d’Elite, issue 4, Autumn 1994. Terreur d’Elite ibid. In my At War With […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] NL Netherlands, Her Majesty the Queen of the NL Wijffels, Herman H.F. Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Nederland P Balsemao, Francisco Pinto Professor of Communication Science, New University, Lisbon; Chairman, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister P Borges, Antonio Dean, INSEAD P Galvao Teles, Jose M. Lawyer, Member of the Social Party, Member of […]
Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] Dallas, that he met Oswald when Oswald was living there, are of some interest. It is in this context that the testimony to the Warren Commission of New Orleans lawyer Dean Andrews is so interesting. When I skimmed through the Warren Commission’s twenty plus volumes of evidence and testimony twelve years ago Andrew’s contribution […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
Patriots not sneaks After a year of New Labour I feel beholden to write something on this subject, but what is there worth saying that isn’t blindingly and depressingly obvious and predictable? Jack Straw, who took over as Home Secretary, and thus formally as the boss of MI5, is determined to sedate any sleeping […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] of Justice where the names of James Callaghan, Oliver North and Manuel Noriega crop up with such regularity as they did in Bankrupt: The BCCI Fraud. Kochan’s new book is similarly revealing. He opens by throwing light on the way the Russian oligarchs most of them equipped with Israeli passports, he tells us […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] is the poor relationship between the two allied services. Early on Cavendish was privy to the intelligence war: “…those of us who worked with MI6 officers k new that that organisation was the tops and that they – not us (MI5) – were the real professionals.” (p38) A year later, when he joined MI6, […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
Spy Wars: Moles, mysteries and deadly games Tennent H. Begley London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, h/b, £18.99 Begley was one of James Angleton’s allies in CIA counterintelligence and this book is the Angletonian view of the Nosenko case, one of the touchstones or causes célèbres of the CIA in the […]