[PDF file]: […] astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell and – as revealed in Lobster 77 – Bobby Ray Inman, then a Vice Admiral. Inman was later appointed director of the National Security Agency (NSA) by President Carter himself. Approached for comment on this story, Jimmy Carter initially dodged the issue with an irrelevant response. He subsequently declined to […]
[PDF file]: […] most noted by his absence. When he eventually surfaced, and was asked for an explanation he apologised and stated that he had been working undercover, for the security services, in the BNP. Nobody believed him. Well we wouldn’t, would we? And perhaps that’s the problem with too many people in UK politics today – […]
[…] cares); he’s interested in the ‘true Seventies fashion’. Once again we get the Private Eye-cynical hack view of Harold Wilson’s attempts to get an investigation of the security Page 143 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 services going: Wilson was paranoid and (using Bernard Donoughue’s diaries as evidence), Marcia Williams was dreadful. ‘The daily drama in […]
[PDF file]: […] of what was said behind closed doors. MPs and pressure groups have condemned secret trials but prosecutors claimed the secrecy was justified in the interests of national security, and described it as “an exceptional case”.’ Beckett, Hencke and Kochan have done us a service in trying to pierce the barriers Blair has erected around […]
[PDF file]: […] economic modernization, environmental improvement and the elimination of unemployment and poverty.14 Rewriting economic theory The agenda first glimpsed in 1929 grew to embrace the expansion of social security, provision of free universal medical care (while working at the Treasury in World War Two, Keynes backed Sir William Beveridge’s proposals for the establishment of ‘cradle […]
[PDF file]: […] There is no mention of this in the description of Dr Pittman’s routine health check. Any attempt to take blood would not have passed muster with prison security and the warders. The discovery of any attempt to take No. 7’s blood in such a fashion would have risked both a criminal prosecution and an […]
[PDF file]: […] organization, no one will recognize it, no one will give it status at the , no one will let it put forth a resolution at the U.N. Security Council.49 A third Israeli official, Brigadier General Yitzhak Segev – who, during part of the 1980s, was the Israeli military governor of the Gaza Strip – […]
[PDF file]: […] missing and he begins with this: ‘Larry Hancock brings formal training in history and cultural anthropology to his research and writing on Cold War history and national security subjects. Following service in the U.S. Air Force, his career in computer/ communications and technology marketing allowed him to become a consultant on strategic analysis and […]
[…] organization, no one will recognize it, no one will give it status at the , no one will let it put forth a resolution at the U.N. Security Council.31 A third Israeli official, Brigadier General Yitzhak Segev – who, during part of the 1980s, was the Israeli military governor of the Gaza Strip – […]
[PDF file]: […] for all European countries to adopt laws that criminalise Holocaust denial, to create clearer definitions of constitutes racism and antisemitisim, and to oblige governments to pay for security at synagogues and Jewish schools. Writing in The Times today, Mr Blair and Moshe Kantor, a Russian-born Jewish philanthropist and businessman, say that Europe is at […]
