Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[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.’ […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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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 […]