…MI5 goes on forever

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] War allegations also lay behind the highly publicised claims of the former officer Peter Wright that the Service had plotted to undermine the former Prime Minister Harold Wilson. A vigorous internal enquiry failed to produce any evidence to substantiate these claims, and Wright himself subsequently admitted that they were false.’ This is a nice […]

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The smearing of Colin Wallace

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

Tribune 21/28 August 1987 JOHN WARE is an investigative reporter, widely regarded, by his peers, as one of the best television journalists working in this country. He worked with World in Action and is now with BBC’s Panorama. It was to John Ware that Panorama entrusted its investigation into the Wilson-MI5 plots after the BBC […]

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SAS: the Stiff Memoir

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] of.’ This could cause problems. Stiff tells how the firm’s activities in North Yemen were compromised. ‘In 1969 two members of the firm, Knocker Parsons and Falcon Wilson, were killed in that area of operation while leading a band of guerillas and their bodies captured. There was an enormous fuss made at the United […]

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Challenge to Democracy

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] effect can be unintentionally comic: ‘Roy wants a coalition government and expects to see one in the first half of this year….Roy said he wouldn’t mind whether Wilson or Callaghan led the new government but made it clear he would expect to succeed whichever of them took it on.’ (January 1 1975, p.184) When […]

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Publications

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] CA95001 1107 USA. Goodies to look out for: Exile: The Unquiet Oblivion of Richard M. Nixon, Robert Sam Anson Rogue Agent: The Remarkable Career of Edwin P. Wilson, James Goulden Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA, Jim Hougan Tom Davis also stocks back issues of Jonathan Marshall’s Parapolitics.The best mail order catalogue […]

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War and peace plots

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] German anti-Nazi figures what they would gain by going along with the American proposal. After all, the intrusion of the US into Europe in 1919 under Woodrow Wilson had been seen by many as the cause of the difficulties that led to such chronic instability on the continent.() Once the Soviet Union had a […]

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The Police and Computers: Some Recent Developments

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

[…] Mary Simmons. Your Every Wish The ever-fortunate residents of the Beaconview Old Peoples’ Home in Kiln Lane, Skem, are currently benefitting from the attentions of John Andrew Wilson (3.2.64) (burglary, theft) of 223 Fairview L12, who is taking part in Hindley Borstal’s Community Scheme. Wilson’s spell of duty at the home terminates on 15.10.82 […]

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The Pinay Circle and Destabilisation in Europe

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] illustration of the international dimension of parapolitical manipulation represented by the Circle’s promotional activities. It is becoming more and more apparent that the treatment reserved for Harold Wilson at the hands of the intelligence services was only the UK end of an international phenomenon. Around 1973-75 a surprising number of governments were targeted by […]

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Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] March 13 conveyed the seriousness as well accuracy of the coup plot allegations. On that day The Guardian’s new political editor Patrick Wintour gave us nothing on Wilson, but a full page on the former leader of the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire under the headline: ‘I should have been a Trappist monk.’ Ah, […]

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A note on the British deployment of nuclear weapons in crises – with particular reference to the Falklands and Gulf Wars and the purchase of Trident

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] historical account of British nuclear forces. Milan Rai, Tactical Trident, the Rifkind Doctrine and the Third World, Drava Papers, London, 1994. Rai references the quotations fully. Andrew Wilson, ‘Deadline Midnight’, The Observer, 11 April 1992 Quoted in a paper by William M Arkin and Andrew Burrows, British Nuclear Weapons in the Falklands, published by […]

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