[…] publication and (b) that it should get the good reviews it has had to date. Something is going on here but I’ve no idea what. Interesting (just) for pp 68-74 which discuss the South Africa Foundation and the UK-SA Trade Association. Barber, incidentally, is the author of the article on BOSS in Britain (African […]
[…] there is also a scattering of mildly interesting bits and pieces on intelligence methods and technology, especially satellites. For the trainspotters amongst us there are lots of new names – though most are in the form Anthony X. There is also quite an interesting account of Whitehall’s handling of the operation, most of which […]
[…] also professor of American Indian Studies and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder – a prof with a Kashalnikov! Notes 1 Tony Blair and Gordon Brown believe in the fairy story Uncle Sam. They really do. This is what makes them so useful to the Americans. […]
[…] seemingly unrelated’. I have never found this convincing but the author uses it to linkup all manner of what appear to be discrete events into apparent patterns For example, on pp. 90/91, in a chapter on Charles Manson, we bounce from John Keel’s The Mothman Prophecies, back to neolithic times, thence to the Druids, […]
[…] can have many advantages. The home environment is usually stimulating, cosmopolitan and in formed. There can also be one-off bonus such as acquisition of a British passport for a non-UK citizen. If a child’s parents are spies, the child is usually an active participant in espionage at every stage of his or her development. […]
[…] The Lobster is a journal/newsletter about intelligence, parapolitics, state structures and so forth. (The scope of our interests should be obvious from this issue.) We welcome articles, notes, corrections of our errors and areas of ignorance etc Subscriptions Subs will be for 6 issues. UK/Ireland subs – £3.50; US – $12. Subs from other […]
[…] sections of it. To the surprise of no-one who had read, say, Alfred McKoy’s The Politics of Heroin in South East Asia, exactly the same thing happened, for exactly the same reasons, when the Reagan administration set about destroying the Sandinista regime. It was simplicity itself: planes flew from America carrying supplies for the […]
[…] a Christian, apparently the only honest man with any bottle on the EU staff, didn’t have to look hard to find corruption: it was everywhere he went.(5) Notes London: Little, Brown, 1999 The Tainted Source: the Undemocratic Origins of the European Idea, (London: Little Brown, 1997) which has recently been remaindered and is around […]
[…] was that the UK intelligence services were involved with the CIA. Extraordinary though this now seems, this had never struck me. The links between the US, UK, New Zealand and Australian intelligence services are detailed in the highly recommended Ties That Bind by Jeffrey Richelson and Desmond Ball (Allen and Unwin 1985). On page […]
[…] 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 […]
