Stephen Dorril Heinemann, London, 1993 It turns out that the ‘silent conspiracy’ of the title is a conspiracy which ‘has surrounded Britain’s secret state’ — a blindingly obvious tautology. Dorril has done as much as any other to lift the veil of secrecy from the British secret state, so it is somewhat disappointing to […]
[PDF file]: Maggie’s guilty secret John Hughes-Wilson1 O ne of the biggest secrets of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership was that during the 1980s she and her Cabinet authorised a long running and totally illegal operation to supply arms secretly to both Iraq and Iran, in contravention of UN resolutions and British law. Billions of pounds worth of […]
[PDF file]: The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 Max Hastings William Collins, 2015, £30, h/b Britain’s military record over the past two centuries is pretty patchy overall. She has probably lost more wars than she has won, apart from little ones against poorly armed ‘natives’ (and she lost quite a few of those), and […]
[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]: America’s Nazi Secret John Loftus Walterville, Oregon: Trineday, 2010, $24.95, p/b This a reprint of Loftus’s earlier book The Belarus Secret Page 96 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 (Penguin 1983 in the UK), though with some passages edited out of the original apparently restored. These restored sections appear to be those in square brackets in […]
[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 […]
