[PDF file]: What’s your poison? Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments Ulf Schmidt Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, £25, h/b Schmidt is Professor of Modern History at the University of Kent. He has been Wellcome Trust Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, amongst other positions. His research interests, so we […]
[PDF file]: Britain’s Secret Wars How and Why the United Kingdom sponsors conflict around the world T. J. Coles Clairview Books: Russet, West Sussex, £14.99, p/b C oles has written a couple of essays for this journal and they show what a formidable research tool the Internet is if you have the patience and the skill […]
[PDF file]: SECRET JUSTICE Public Interest Immunity Certificates (PIICs) and their use in the Asil Nadir trials Martin Tancock In March 2013, Lord Maginnis of Drumglass asked the following questions of Her Majesty’s Government, regarding the imposition of PIICs in the trial R v Asil Nadir (2011-12): To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many documents […]
[PDF file]: Her Majesty’s secret servants Robin Ramsay SIS and Libya H enry Kissinger is widely quoted as having once said that ‘America has no friends, only interests’; and when push comes to shove this is true for all states. This island has been called something like ‘perfidious Albion’ for almost a thousand years.1 Neither proposition […]
[PDF file]: The secret library of Georges Armoulian Anthony Frewin London: Ashgrove Publishing, 2012, £9.95, p/b This is a very funny book. Anthony Frewin is a regular Lobster contributor, novelist and screenwriter, and the book’s intentions are stated when Frewin’s preface is headed by a quotation allegedly from FBI taps on the phone of Chicago mobster […]
[PDF file]: The Secret War Between the Wars MI5 in the 1920s and 1930s Kevin Quinlan Woodbridge (Suffolk): The Boydell Press, 2014, £30, h/b T his began as the author’s PhD thesis, based on the MI5 files of the interwar period, and it details some of their successes against the British left who were getting money […]
[…] or still ‘radicals’ agree on, but one of them would be that short of some exceptional life-threatening situation it is not possible to co-operate with the British secret state. My enemy’s enemy Finally, why did Searchlight attack Larry for a tiny little fragment in Tribune? Why not for the much bigger piece in Lobster […]
For some time, the world’s secret services have been making use of loose structures parallel to the official clandestine hierarchies for their more controversial activities. Fred Holroyd’s revelations have shown how the British state employed Loyalist paramilitaries for kidnap and assassination operations in Eire, whilst the Irangate hearings have exposed what is, so far, […]
[…] were right to have their doubts because Stella Rimington accepted, under cross-examination, that no espionage equipment had been found in my possession: there were no cameras, microdots, secret writing materials, code books, radio transmitters, secret containers (such as false bottomed briefcases), etc. Nothing was found that would indicate I was operating as a professional […]
[…] Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Spooks (Lobster 22) Georg Simmel said ‘The purpose of secrecy is above all protection. Of all the protective measures the most radical is […]
