Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££
[…] operations against Albania and around the Mediterranean. (GCHQ) Government Communications Headquarters. Operatives of GCHQ are named in the early editions of the Diplomatic List. Increasingly they are hidden, though they can be traced by reference to GCHQ outposts like Darwin (Australia). Also known as the ‘Government Code and Cypher School’ (GCCS) (IRD) ‘Information Research […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] David Leigh’s account of this is at See ‘Scans that read your mind fuel ethical worries’ The Observer, 20 March < http:// observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1441799,00.html> ; ‘Brain scan “sees hidden thoughts”‘ and ‘Mind-reading machine knows what you see’ . ‘This was a hugely serious plot because what it had the potential to do was to cause […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] we focus on what is being suppressed by these successive alterations, we arrive at a working hypothesis of what actually may have happened and has since been hidden. Later in this chapter I shall argue that the anomalies help us to distinguish between two different pre-assassination operations involving Oswald. The first was an authorized […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] that deserve further scrutiny. Don Mullan’s The Dublin and Monaghan Bombings is one of the essential books of the Troubles. Deriving from the Yorkshire TV documentary, ‘ Hidden Hand: The Forgotten Massacre’, broadcast on 6 July 1993, it shows that there is a strong case that there was an official cover-up in relation to […]
Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££
[…] reason no wreckage from the 747 was ever found in the Sea of Japan is that there isn’t any there. (Instead, the plane is, by now, well hidden in the seven-mile-deep Kurile Trench). 007’s disappearance, then, was the result of an on-board explosion, triggered remotely and timed to coincide with an RC-135’s overflight of […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] him at some length: Our soldiers had found a weapons cache in a grave, and had staked the site out, lying up for several days and nights hidden in a wet ditch at the edge of the churchyard. One night a man appeared, lifted the top of the grave and took out a semi-automatic […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] October ‘efforts in this regard will continue vigorously beyond that date’, on a clandestine basis ‘so that the USG (US Government) and American hand will be well hidden’. It called for selective contact with military leaders wanting to strike against Allende (interestingly, Pinochet is not one of those named): the most likely candidate at […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] in both overseas and domestic policy, engaged in continual bureaucratic warfare with the FBI, CIA, and local police forces, repeatedly discovering things that were supposed to stay hidden and trying to arrest ‘the wrong people’. In the introduction Valentine offers this summary: ‘The moral to their story is simple: in the process of penetrating […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] second part was a three-phase operation: 1) Smuggle lira out of Italy and convert them to a stable currency, preferably dollars or Swiss francs; 2) Reinvest the hidden capital in businesses inside Italy, thereby taking control of important industries; and 3) funnel profits out of Italy, completing the cycle that would disrupt the country’s […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] Ireland in the 1970s. There is also a nod in the direction of the Gladio story of a European network of right wing military units with their hidden arms dumps. This stimulating novel even hints at an interconnection between the ‘strategy of tension’ in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, which was designed to […]