The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] February 1970 Dee hosted an episode in which he interviewed George Lazenby and Diana Rigg, the stars of the then current James Bond film ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’. Lazenby, who was managed by Ronan O’Rahilly, used his appearance on the show to speak at some length about the 23 ‘Girl on a Motorcycle’, […]

Gaza 2009: Revisiting the Goldstone Report

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] in Israel, with John Bolton, for example, calling for the US to defund the UNHCR. For the Israel-South Africa connection see Sasha Polakow-Suransky, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa (New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2010). 5 6 Terris (see note 4) pp. 241, 255. Norman Finkelstein, Gaza: An Inquest into Its […]

The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into The Octopus and the Promis Software Scandal by Cheri Seymour

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] halfway through the book, into the narrative of spies and the mob and hitmen and the theft of the PROMIS software, international spookery, and military developments in secret on an Indian reservation, comes a murderous, drugdealing criminal gang composed of ex-policemen and ex-soldiers. Well now…. Way back when this magazine began, in the days […]

Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy

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[PDF file]: […] protected, to the extent that evidence might be fabricated or covered-up to hide their identity, as deemed necessary. In tandem with this, the Force Research Unit, a secret British Army detachment established in 1980 – presumably in response to the same killings – centralised the collection of intelligence data. These arrangements were never debated […]

Anthrax War: Dead silence…..fear and terror on the anthrax trail by Bob Coen and Eric Nadler

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] investigation and an account of the investigation; a written version of a documentary film. And what they found is really scary stuff. CBW programs are the dirty secret of post-war states. The Soviets, the Americans learned from a defector in 1989, had a monster – and maybe the Russians still do, though officially they […]

Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] war against America’s enemies throughout the world, a war that continues today. As part of this war, the CIA established its own covert gulag, a network of secret prisons in Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Thailand, Mauretania, Diego Garcia and elsewhere. Here prisoners could be tortured without their screams being heard by anyone who cared. But […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Gladio network was reviewed in Lobster 49. Of particular interest on the IPRD site is a study by Sam Urquhart, Crevice Revisited: Violent Extremism and the British Secret State, whose introduction is this: ‘In April 2007, five British Muslims were sent to jail, in each case for at least twenty years under anti-terrorism legislation. […]

View from Lob 73

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[…] is C. B. Macpherson’s. See . 17 5 18 Oh, really? Our political perspective is Left/Green, but we welcome truth-tellers, whatever their affiliation. Research interests include the secret state (MI5/MI6/Special Branch, now SO15) & their assets, including those in the media. We are resolutely anti-fascist, and to that end investigate the far right and […]

1976 and all that: the IMF incident

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] on the IMF events, Donoughue revealed the following. . . .in the middle of this crisis I was privately summoned to the United States Embassy for a secret meeting with a very senior official there who said, ‘You should be aware of something, which is that parts of the Treasury are in very deep […]

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