A Thorn in Their Side: The Hilda Murrell murder by Robert Green with Kate Dewes

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] thinking; the Cold War had been revived for the benefit of the American arms companies and opposition to American power and nuclear power was significant. The British secret state was more or less given its head by Mrs Thatcher, who believed – genuinely, as far as I can determine – that Britain really was […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] to ignore all the sworn affidavits and are trying another tack CSIS’s lawyers are trying to persuade the Court to allow anonymous personal testimony (and affidavits) in secret. In other words secret testimony where I wouldn’t know who had testified, or what their testimony was. This is kangaroo court stuff. Apparently I will be […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] can extrapolate a little from Holt’s account and see how the pieces fit. The plan for which he provided technical assistance was an attempt to sabotage Kennedy’s (secret) policy of slowly building détente with Cuba. The fake assassination attempt would fire the Mannlicher-Carcano round through the smooth bore rifle at Kennedy and attribute this […]

Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of water fell onto Lynmouth, destroying hundreds of homes and businesses, and causing the deaths of 35 people. Reporting in 2001, ‘a BBC investigation has confirmed that secret experiments were causing heavy rainfall’, though the Ministry of Defence (MOD) denied any connection between the seeding experiments and the flood. Initially, the MoD even denied […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] to ignore all the sworn affidavits and are trying another tack CSIS’s lawyers are trying to persuade the Court to allow anonymous personal testimony (and affidavits) in secret. In other words secret testimony where I wouldn’t know who had testified, or what their testimony was. This is kangaroo court stuff. Apparently I will be […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

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[PDF file]: […] a congenial external environment. Its outline became clear during the early 1970s, when a programme for international economic reform See Kevin John McEvoy, ‘Before the rubble: Britain’s secret propaganda offensive in Chile (1960-1973)’, Contemporary British History, Volume 35 (2021), p. 603. Historians of modern Chile and the covert operations of the British state have […]

Powers, Angleton, Morley and Dallas

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] into the US Marine Corps. He served at bases in San Diego, the Philippines and Atsugi, Japan, where he worked in radar and communications at a top secret U2 base. He was trained in the Russian language before being given an early discharge and then defected to the Soviet Union. In the USSR he […]

A key for a Clockwork Orange

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] itself should have been a big clue, but Lewis doesn’t appear to have even consulted a dictionary. It denotes interference with the brain via electromagnetic fields. No secret research was taking place in this field at the time the novel appeared or before it. The microwave auditory effect (also known as the Frey Effect, […]

Underground Structures of the Cold War: The World Below by Paul Ozorak

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Paul Ozorak Barnsley (UK): Pen & Sword Books, 2012. xx + 364 pp. Illustrated, notes, references, index, £25.00. It was the ‘Spies for Peace’ pamphlet, Danger! Official Secret RSG6, that was distributed on the 1963 Aldermaston March, and mailed to the media (some 4000 copies in total were printed), that first alerted us slumbering […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of sharing, and possibly taking, power. Britain’s colonial possessions were vulnerable to Communist influence.’52 I think the biggest revelation is that IRD’s work was not classified as secret for the first couple of years. That changed, however, when: ‘The need to recruit specialist staff, free from the limitations of civil service pay and conditions, […]

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