Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

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[…] Wallace sloppy or malicious? Still in Ireland, Bloom turns to Maurice Oldfield, and mentions the 1987 story in the Sunday Times which said Oldfield had: ‘been a security risk when caught “cottaging” in 1980. It was not exactly true, however, but plausible enough to cause damage.’ What does ‘not exactly true’ mean? Oldfield wasn’t […]

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

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is one striking error. In his section on the publication of The Quiet Canadian (1962) about William Stephenson, Moran describes the wartime organisation in New York, British Security Co-ordination (BSC), of which Stephenson was head, as ‘an umbrella organisation tasked with representing the interests of British secret services throughout North and South America’ (p. […]

Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments by Ulf Schmidt

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] sum in the 1950s and the question is, was the hospital board really that enlightened or was it acting merely as a conduit for money from, possibly, security or military agencies? Dr Elkes was advising Porton Down (and thus MI6) at the time on the interrogation possibilities of LSD. He, like Sargant, believed in […]

The Scottish National Party and the American State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] prosper within the party hierarchy. I believe this is an exercise in cultivating assets rather than planting agents. Circumstantial connections between Sturgeon’s inner circle and the AngloAmerican Security State are copious. Readers of Lobster are likely familiar with the British American Project (BAP) and its official origin story.1 This official history was, of course, […]

The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was bed-hopping between the president and Sam Giancana. But given what we now know about the contemporary CIA’s engagement with the Mafia, it’s equally plausible that National Security concerns were involved. 7 potential leak of the Sullivan dossier might inspire in him with the 1964 presidential election looming. If it came to light that […]

Deception in High Places: a history of bribery in Britain’s arms trade by Nicholas Gilby

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] while Blair was in office.4 The author shows the British state in full obstruction and evasion mode before the SFO inquiry was killed by Blair, citing ‘ security’ issues, after he was leaned on by the Saudis. Gilby is rather positive about the American experience. Other estimates are less sanguine and I will need […]

Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War 1 to 9/11 by Kathryn S. Olmsted

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[…] first World War officials of the U.S. government have encouraged conspiracy theories, sometimes inadvertently, sometimes intentionally. They have engaged in conspiracies and used the cloak of national security to hide their actions from the American people. With cool calculation, they have promoted official conspiracy theories, sometimes demonstrably false ones, their own purposes…..If antigovernment conspiracy […]

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