Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] knew of Nixon’s treason, including documents gleaned from the CIA and FBI detailing surveillance of Nixon’s go-betweens. Johnson entrusted his so-called ‘X-Envelope’ to Walt Rostow, his National Security Advisor. On 26 June 1973, with Johnson now dead, Rostow handed this dossier to the director of the LBJ Presidential Library, with a note recommending that […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] country, but just down the road from the offices of the William Cohen Group in Washington DC where he works as ‘senior counsellor’ to the weapons and security consultants. Cohen was Robertson’s opposite number at the Pentagon during the Clinton administration.2 Reporting on the referendum for the BBC from Glasgow was Sarah Smith, the […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] soon disappeared as the fog of the Cold War set. (Note also these quantum developments in the speedy turn to global empire: the creation of the National Security State, 1947; Israel, 1948; and the Korean War, 1950). The crowning legal achievements formed in this new crucible, inter alia, were the U.N. Charter and Geneva […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] 14 May they intercepted in the post a photostat copy of a letter from Hess. This was forwarded to a Group Captain Blackford, Director of Intelligence ( Security) RAF.55 None of these documents, letters or photostats can be found in official files today. Hess and Kirkpatrick spoke again on 15 May. Hess requested that […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] West – into satellite states with open doors for a combination of xenophobic politicians, dodgy businesses and Mafia bosses, all propped up by increasingly repressive military and security establishments looking to Moscow rather than Brussels and Washington. Putin, a former KGB officer unwilling and unable (it is said) to escape from the secretive and […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] witch-hunt; quite the opposite. Among those under suspicion are judges, civil servants, right-wing politicians, foreign and domestic diplomats, and other official VIPs. Police, judges, politicians, officials and security agencies appear to have been involved in the cover-up. There is little appetite for any rigourous inquisition: working police officers fear for their jobs and the […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] On 15 July the first UN troops entered, and Belgian intervention forces left the Congo, except for Katanga, where they stayed to train and build a Katangese security force strong enough to resist the Congolese military. UN troops took up position in Katanga as well but stayed out of the intra-Congolese conflict. This position […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] coup resisters; the lack of implementation of the Minsk Accords to end that conflict; and the outright rejection of treaty proposals by Moscow to create a new security architecture in Europe taking Russia’s security concerns into account. But . . . there was no NATO promise not to expand eastwards. There was talk among […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] General from 2011, who refused a request by medical experts and his former party leader for a full inquest, is now the chairman of Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee? Did you know that Dr Kelly, smeared as a ‘Walter Mitty character’ by No 10 official Tom Kelly in its 2003 Iraq war dispute with […]