Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] because shortly before his death he discussed with former operatives of the intelligence services the possibility of ‘stopping’ Tony Benn MP if Labour came to power. ( New Statesman 20 February 1981). Unlike her predecessors, Mrs Thatcher had maintained an interest in intelligence matters while in opposition. Through journalist Chapman Pincher, Maurice Oldfield of […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] specialised knowledge of this area all I can do is confine myself to the two books: the WIA updated and revised paperback, 260 pages long with no notes and no index; and the Short book, 350 pages with some notes and an index. On the basis of this evidence there really is little competition. […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] in Lobster, has uncovered a fascinating mass of information relating to covert cross-border operations by the Ulster security forces, and the subsequent “shoot-to-kill” inquiry conducted by the new retired Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, John Stalker. Basing himself largely on the evidence of Captain Fred Holroyd, Doherty unravels a whole series of covert […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] gives a hint or two. Goodman spent most of his career close to the Labour Party and – here’s the clue – the trade unions. He k new many of the leaders of both; and by the mid 1970s two of the union leaders, Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon, had been promoted to the […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] the most dangerous operations of the BIS. (British Intelligence Service). I have to say that the mania to fabricate libellous statements against the Soviet Union is nothing new in leading circles of the British Government. Such propaganda campaigns always serve to hide current political purposes. So, at this particular time, the anti-Soviet provocations by […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
Unmasking the State: A rough guide to real democracy This is Action Guide #3 from ‘a world to win’, a group that somehow manages to avoid saying anything much about itself in this booklet. A visit to their website shows that while they are committed to a radical change in society and apparently […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
A Covert Life. Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster Ted Morgan New York: Random House, 1999, $29.95 Freedom’s War: The US Crusade Against the Soviet Union Scott Lucas Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999, £45 Secret History: The CIA’s Classified Account of its Operations in Guatemala 1952-54 Nick Cullather Stanford (California): Stanford University Press 1999, […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] recycling the claims of some on the right that he was a Soviet agent (without any evidence) and there is this: ‘Many within British intelligence circles k new him as a visitor to Kincora, a boy’s home used by the paedophile and gay members of the Protestant Order , civil servants and intelligence officers.’ […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] Intellectuals and the Congress for Cultural Freedom’ Jessica Gienow-Hecht: ‘(High) Culture and US Cultural Policy towards West Germany’ David Monod: ‘Porgy and Bess as Cold War Propaganda’ Hugo Frey: ‘Hitchcock, the Cold War, and Film Reception in France’ Notes 1 The author’s essay on the Congress for Cultural Freedom appeared in Lobster 36 and 38.
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] achieve.’ Why did it fail? Apart from the obvious point that few in the Middle East will believe American propaganda, a point which Collins cannot make, Collins notes: ‘The increase in the number of satellite television news services and internet connections makes it ever more difficult to influence opinions globally.’ It is hard to […]
