Dr Mary’s Monkey

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] of this is conveyed by what must be one of the longest subtitles in publishing history: ‘How the unsolved murder of a doctor, a secret laboratory in New Orleans and cancer-causing monkey viruses are linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK assass-ination and emerging global epidemics’ Kennedy assassination initiates will glimpse a little bit […]

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Spinning the Spies: Intelligence, open government and the Hutton Inquiry

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] John Scarlett was still trying to get ‘false and dubious’ intelligence put in the report of the Iraq Survey Group after the invasion had been successful. () Notes At the National Security Archive site, See, for example, Richard Norton-Taylor, ‘We got it wrong on Iraq WMD, intelligence chiefs finally admit’, The Guardian 8 April […]

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Policing Politics: Security Intelligence and the Liberal Democratic State

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] It’s good to define one’s terms, too, but did we really need a definition of the concept of ‘concept’? But these scars of academia are the only real flaw in an ambitious and potentially very useful book. Gill aims to provide the groundwork for an inquiry into the British security intelligence agencies, the Security […]

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Downing Street Diary: With Harold Wilson in No. 10

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] pay-dirt: Wigg had ‘a second family’. Wilson let Wigg know that he knew of his secret and would give it to the press unless the leaks stopped. Notes 1 Roy Hattersley, ‘No one likes a sneak’, The Observer 10 July 2005. But as Tony Frewin said, ‘Oh yes they do!’ 2 Or by the […]

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SAS

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] climbed the mountain in 1976. Group Medic Dr Richard Villier. (Times 9th April 1984) * * * SAS honouring its founder Colonel David Stirling by naming its new barracks in Hereford after him. (Guardian 30th May 1984). Stirling was involved in the strike-breaking GB 75. He still runs Television International Enterprises which runs a […]

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Spooks

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] (personal information). Alan Charles Andrews: MI6 technical side 1965-74 (personal information). Denis Jackson: MI6 under Andrews. Derek Salmon: MI6 under Andrews. John Fawcett: MI5 liaison officer with New Zealand 1985/6 (Information from Owen Wilkes). John Hay: MI6 (C) (Diplomatic List 1990). J.A. Noakes: MI6 (C) (Diplomatic List 1990). R.G. Graham: MI6 (C) (Diplomatic List […]

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The Intelligence Game: Illusions and Delusions of International Espionage

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Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] economic interests have been better or worse served since 1948 had the CIA not come to be dominated by the covert operators? Although topped and tailed with new material, this is otherwise unchanged since the hard-back edition in 1989. The further collapse of the Soviet empire since then has made a page or two […]

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South African Connections

Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

[…] Tory rightwingers (SL May 1983). Break-ins at Zambian High Commission were revealed. Head of SA Security Police, Coetzee, visited British intelligence in March. Believed SA established a new London burglary team in April (G. 27th June 1983). 7. SA propaganda links to Tory rightwingers and funding of Foreign Affairs Research Institute (FARI) (G. 11th […]

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