Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] the smear was something concocted years before in Northern Ireland for which Wilkinson was just the messenger boy. (Being the conduit for the nonsense from military and intelligence agencies was one of his roles.) When this was demonstrated to Channel Four’s management, Wilkinson lost his gig as ITN’s ‘consultant’ on terrorism. None of this […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] to remind myself of it. After some chapters of autobiography, Cooper has this on p. 27: On the day that I learned that the Office of Naval Intelligence had participated in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and that it was the Secret Service agent driving the limo that had shot Kennedy in […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[PDF file]: […] the course of this Harrison offers a variety of euphemisms: Mrs Thatcher ‘displayed formidable intellectual energy over a long period . . . Colleagues recognised a considerable intelligence of the specialised kind that a democratic politician needs’ (p. 208); had ‘an intelligence too firmly practical for the self-consciously intellectual to feel comfortable with it’ […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] continues even after al-Megrahi’s death. The book makes clear that al-Megrahi was a vulnerable figure. He, along with many other Libyans, was a US sanctions buster, had intelligence connections, two passports and did not tell his wife about his regular trips abroad, including those to Malta. But Ashton also puts that into political context […]