KAL 007 and Overhead Surveillance

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] gathering over Kamchatka Since the late 1950s the US has been monitoring the Soviet launch site in Krasnoyarsk in order to determine Soviet nuclear capabilities (Klass, P Secret Sentries in Space, Random House, US, 1971, p30). Initially this was solely to evaluate appropriate military responses but with the signing of the 1972 SALT 1 […]

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Southeast Asia: A Testament

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] in that coup. Kahin’s innocence is understandable when he is describing his travels in the region in the 1950s: the CIA was still, more or less, a secret organisation; but a lot of information has been produced since then and his ignorance in the late 1990s when he wrote this is difficult to comprehend […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] a Jihadist which leads to paedophilia or that Jihadists were using child porn pictures to conceal messages hidden in them. The latter idea seems improbable: why conceal secret messages among images which are themselves being hunted by the world’s police? Another thought about the story in this ‘investigation by The Times’ – which looks […]

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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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Errors, corrections, apologies

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] at Central TV, in particular, have stayed on in their jobs after fronting stories on this not only completely false but so obviously sources back to the secret state.’ Ian Pollard, researcher for the Channel 4 documentary,’The Arthur Legend’, which examined the generation of these smears, wrote to correct me. The Mirror and Cook […]

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The view from the bridge. Hidden Agendas. Jack Hill. Ghandi. Sinn Fein. Oswald

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] – operating much more clearly than Carroll Quigley managed with his much wider focus. The sewer and the sewage The Sunday Times has been one of the secret state’s major disinformation tools for over a decade now – and maybe longer; I haven’t looked any further back. In my ‘Miscellaneous cuttings’ file I noticed […]

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Baghdad’s Spy: A Personal Memoir of Espionage and Intrigue from Iraq to London

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] case officers. Two are identified, one remains under a pseudonym; two were the kind of urbane, civilised people we are led to believe work for Her Majesty’s Secret Service; one, the late Alexis Forte, was an obnoxious Russian racist. There is much incidental detail on SIS methods in London in the 1970s and 80s, […]

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My encounter with George K. Young and Tory Action, 1979-1988

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

In 1978 I read a report of a speech on subversion by a Mr G. K. Young (‘GKY’) a former ‘deputy director’ of MI6. It said that he was a banker. I had been a student at LSE 1972-1975, my tutor was an expert on the Soviet Bloc and I had studied Soviet politics. Fears … Read more

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The politics of the organic movement – an overview

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] the Left, 1938, p. 251. Northbourne refers favourably to Hobson’s ideas in Look to the Land. On the Kinship, see P. Conford and R. J. Moore-Colyer, ‘A “Secret Society”? The Internal and External Relations of the Kinship in Husbandry, 1941-52’, Rural History 15/2 (2004), pp. 189-206. On The New English Weekly, see P. Conford, […]

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Northern Ireland redux

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] been allowed to participate in IRA meetings…’ Ken Livingstone’s memory Ken Livingstone MP revisited this area in his column in The Independent on 21 May. Titled ‘The secret conspiracy to destroy peace in Ireland’, this was Ken revisiting the days in 1987 when he made his maiden speech in the Commons based on the […]

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