[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 […]
Books The Secret War: an account of the sinister activities along the border involving Gardai, RUC, British Army and SAS Patsy McArdle (Mercier Press, Dublin 1984) McArdle is a journalist with Downtown Radio in Northern Ireland. Journalists sometimes write really good books, but McArdle’s is a stinker, little more than a jumbled collection of […]
Books Secret Contenders Melvin Beck (Sheridan Square Publications, US 1984) The CIA Christmas party of 1958 found 48 year old all-American boy, Melvin Beck, getting the offer of overseas work with Clandestine Services. He “struck like a hungry bass” and landed in Havana in 1959, just as the first Russian freighter was arriving. Fairly […]
[…] some sense Oswald was got at by the KGB – maybe in Japan. There is of course, nothing resembling evidence for this belief. There is no ‘ secret life’ – the promise in the book’s subtitle. In 1964, while the Warren Commission was sitting, Nosenko defected and announced, among other things, that he had […]
[…] neutral – could give the UK. Kent had also requested a move to the US Embassy in Berlin and, one presumes, would have taken his collection of secret diplomatic correspondence with him had he been allowed to take up this position.(1) The Right Club In March 1940 Kent showed some of his cables to […]
