Lobster review: 1992 guide to intelligence periodics

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[…] provena11ce of LOBSTER ,-vas provil..ied by Mr. Ramsay dt1ring a telephone conversation with thenutl1oron 12July 1989. 101.Stephcn Dorril is the co-author with Anthony Su1nn1ers of Honeytrnp: 11,e Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolso11, 1987). Dorril and Ran1say l1avc rece11tly E published, SMAR!: Wilson & tire Secret State (London: Fot1rtb Estate Lin11ted, […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] widely reported in the mainstream media in 2002, and conveniently forgotten, that the Pentagon’s Proactive, Pre-emptive Operations Group (P2OG) would purposefully provoke acts of terrorism.2 1 In Secret Affairs, former Chatham House Fellow Mark Curtis documents some of Britain’s longtime complicity – from funding, arming, training, and directing, to protecting from extradition – with […]

The Gloucester Horror

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] as Christian but unexpectedly survived the antenatal period. His noble parents are said to have pretended Thomas had died, while keeping him hidden from view in a secret room within the walls of the family seat, Glamis Castle, Scotland. Various versions of the legend describe Thomas as ‘half-man, half-frog’, or barrelchested, with toy-like arms […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] covert, funding for Encounter which came from the British Foreign Office. Then, in 1963 – and for reasons which are unclear – the Daily Telegraph exposed the secret funding but, after being leaned on, almost immediately withdrew the story.3 *new* The beast from the East I was reading a recent piece on Consortiumnews by […]

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[…] covert, funding for Encounter which came from the British Foreign Office. Then, in 1963 – and for reasons which are unclear – the Daily Telegraph exposed the secret funding but, after being leaned on, almost immediately withdrew the story.3 *new* The beast from the East I was reading a recent piece on Consortiumnews by […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] anyone else about it? Of equal interest is the entry for 30 June 1939: ‘I was lucky tonight as The Evening Standard has got hold of Geyr’s secret visit to Ronnie Brocket’s house where Walter Buccleuch and I met last Friday . . . Brocket and Buccleuch are both mentioned – but not me.’ […]

More on Hess

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] that he was ordered to remove a ‘blind flying panel’ from the cockpit, to make a box for it and to send it for evaluation to the secret Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough. Harris and Wilbourn suspected that this ‘blind flying panel’ might have 12 See note 10. Richard J. Evans, Lying About Hitler: […]

Classified: Secrecy and the state in modern Britain by Christopher Moran

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] University Press, 2012, £22.00, hardback M ost of this is a decently written and entertaining account of the British state’s attempts to enforce its ‘everything official is secret’ legislation – run through the House of Commons before WW1 during a panic about German espionage – and its subsequent modifications. Before WW2, in practice the […]

MANUFACTURING TERRORISM: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society by T. J. Coles

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] the pretext for another invasion of the island.1 Subsequently, that short section has had a major influence on many of those studying the activities of the contemporary secret state. If the American state was capable of this, what else has it – and others – been doing? Since Bamford revealed Operation Northwoods people look […]

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