The View From The Bridge

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] of being a conspiracy theorist. They then take him to task for not taking at face value the role of Red Action members in support of the IRA. ‘From O’Hara’s standpoint it is preferable to invent a mythical third party to which the shooting can be attributed, rather than wrestle with the uncomfortable reality […]

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Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Dissent

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] he had been much involved in the Ulster troubles as Northern Ireland Secretary. Then as Home Secretary, and responsibility for MI5, he had to deal with the IRA mainland bombing campaign. Two, he had a long record of seeking to bring Nazi war criminals to justice and was highly regarded in the Jewish community […]

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The Angry Brigade: A history of Britain’s first urban guerilla group

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] to make the case seem stronger. Barker tells us he was a guilty man framed. Did the AB have any effect? Not really: the arrival of the IRA with real bombs, not spectaculars, shunted the AB off into a historical siding. Barker and Christie do their best to find something of value in their […]

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Clockwork Orange 2 Jottings

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

Clockwork Orange 2 Jottings Here is another, previously unpublished section from Wallace’s 1974 jottings for the aborted operation ‘Clockwork Orange 2’. Can Politicians Be Trusted? N. St. Stevas: homosexual – boyfriend of Elton John’s manager – cocaine user at parties Homosexual relationships – Heath, Van Straubenzee, St. John Stevas, Thorpe Child prostitution: William McGrath, Van […]

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The Trouble With Harry: A memoire of Harry Newton, MI5 agent

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] of workers’ control in the United Kingdom.’ It also pointed out, that ‘On Ireland the Party supports the official Sinn Fein (the Communist dominated wing of the IRA) and the Peoples’ Democracy, through which Bernadatte Devlin came to prominence, as organisations whose objectives are the establishment of a Socialist Workers’ Republic.’ All this was […]

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Conspiracy: Plots, Lies and Cover-ups

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] get political control over the propaganda apparatus, which was then being directed as much at Northern Ireland Secretary of State Merlyn Rees as it was against the IRA. Bennett makes it sound as though Cudlipp was in charge of black propaganda. Bennett then tells us: ‘The British establishment obviously decided, according to conspiracy theorists […]

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The smearing of Colin Wallace

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] (“hare-brained”, according to Leng), but tells us that “today, in Wallace’s mind, ‘Clockwork Orange’ has become a more sinister Mark Two which … went beyond destabilising the IRA; it was aimed at mainland Labour politicians – which just happens to dovetail with similar allegations, raised in Parliament from an entirely independent source, namely Peter […]

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Re:

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] him was his second wife, Dame Ruth Railton, described by Edwards as ‘…jealous, merciless, fiercely manipulative and an inveterate liar and fantasist.’ A subsequent fantasy of the duo was a joint belief that they could solve the problems besetting Northern Ireland, at one point simultaneously courting Ian Paisley and IRA Army Council member David O’Connell.

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The Ulster Citizen Army smear

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] (See, for example, Sunday Times 28 January 1973) At various times the UCA were said to have been in discussions with the Peoples’ Democracy group, the Official IRA, the British and Irish Communist Group and the Communist Party. The truth of these reports is impossible to evaluate. This is an extremely complicated episode in […]

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The Man from the FRU

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] explanation for something awkward. In The Daily Telegraph of 3 April, for example, Philip Johnston wrote: ‘A covert Army unit colluded with loyalist paramilitaries to target suspected IRA terrorists for assassination, according to an official police report to be published later this month. The report by Sir John Stevens, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, […]

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