Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] estimated 2,000 personnel. Marion made himself still more unpopular by closing down the rich exchange between the DGSE and the South African Bureau of State Research ( BOSS). In an internal campaign of resistance to the then new Socialist administration, leaks to the press (almost a DGSE tradition) multiplied, particularly from a right-wing faction […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] is what official sources and investigations, and well-heeled publishers and producers, threaten to give us. In the beginning was the mob Back in 1936, Lucky Luciano, the boss of Mafia drug and prostitution rackets in New York City, was finally convicted as a result of Thomas Dewey’s prosecution, and sentenced to thirty to fifty […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
Tell me lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq ed. David Millar London: Pluto, 2003, £12.99, p/back One of the downsides of appearing every six months is that occasionally books arrive just too late for the issue in which they should appear and by the time the next issue appears they … Read more
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
Let’s start with the easiest question: what do George Robertson, Chris Smith and Marjorie ‘Mo’ Mowlam have in common? They are, of course, all strong Tony Blair supporters in the new Labour Cabinet. And what about Peter Mandelson and Elizabeth Symons? Not yet quite Cabinet members, but both are key figures in the ‘modernising project’ … Read more
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] other side of the Pennines from the North East is striking. The account of how Jack Cunningham obtained Whitehaven is legendary: his father, Andrew Cunningham, was GMB boss in the North East, Chair of the Labour Party Northern Region and an Alderman in local government. He arranged the selection for his son who was […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
The Economic League Labour Research (April 1988) have produced a written version of the essential content of the two World in Action programmes on it, with current personnel and the names of some 350 British companies which have funded the EL since 1972. In line with the thesis suggested by White in his essay (see […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] see Colin Wallace and re-examines the attempt to frame him for bank robbery. A very good summary of both the Wallace material and the South African ( BOSS) connections to the plots in the 1970s. Hain, who unfortunately failed to unseat the dreadful David Mellor in Putney at the General Election, made some forthright […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] of resignation, ‘When are we going to have the courage and political maturity to tell the Mexican people that we suffer from a sort of narco-democracy?’ His boss, DIEGO VALADES, Salinas’ fourth Attorney General, quits a few days later. 18 May At his first news conference since replacing the murdered Posadas Ocampo of Guadalajara […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] House memorandum which suggested the settlement and compensation for Olsen’s widow, was written by the then Deputy White House Chief of Staff, Dick Cheney, to his then boss, Donald Rumsfeld. The memo recommended an official apology by the president so as to forestall any trial or official hearing on the Olson case. Otherwise, the […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] Cuban President Fidel Castro, his brother Raul Castro, Che Guevera and five other revolutionary Cuban government leaders. Former associates of Cuban dictator Batista and of Resorts International boss Santo Trafficante were, according to this early 1960 Nixon-Trafficante agreement, to be selected out of the Operation 40 participants by Santo Trafficante – and then secretly […]
