Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

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[PDF file]: […] the Heath government’s 20% inflation. Gorman, pp. 162 and 3 52. For the complete list, and some details see Blum. 53. The head of the US National Security Council said the British economic crisis ‘was considered by us in the White House at that time as the greatest single threat to the stability of […]

Friends of Israel

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2011: a Reagan odyssey

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[PDF file]: […] China, the last classical enemies were gone – but the war was not over. Carter’s ludicrous attempts to blame the Soviet Union for the war his national security advisor Brzezinski instigated and covertly funded in Afghanistan were largely a deadly distraction with no initial impact on the new ‘enemy’. Reagan’s attempts to portray Nicaragua […]

Intelligent Warfare: The Memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL

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[PDF file]: […] who wanted to force the government’s hand by violence’. What particularly annoys him are those people who have since gone into print criticising the conduct of the security forces and ‘who insist on comparing the ten to fifteen thousand Mau Mau killed with the hundred or so Europeans killed’ – ignoring the casualties suffered […]

Hollow Hegemony

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[PDF file]: Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance David Chandler London: Pluto Books, 20009, £17.99 Robin Ramsay I shouldn’t be reviewing this book: I am not qualified to do so. What do I know about international relations theory, which is what this book is about? And, in any case, its subject matter is really outside Lobster’s field. […]

The Oswald Code by Alan Jules Weberman

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[PDF file]: […] sorts of Big Secrets; but Weberman doesn’t realise he is being toyed with. Oswald worked for a time in Dallas at Jaggars-ChilesStoval, a firm that undertook classified security typesetting for the US government. The address of the company together with their phone number is in the address book and underneath Oswald has written micro […]

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

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[PDF file]: […] the book, noting on p. 196 in his long list of outstanding items in the case: ‘From my experience as a Naval Intelligence officer with a top security clearance, MI5 would have discovered I knew there were things to hide over the Falklands War which were potentially more serious than the torpedoing of the […]

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