[…] LOBSTER is a journal/newsletter about intelligence activities, para-politics, state structures and so forth. (The range of our interests should be obvious from this issue) We welcome articles, notes, clippings, corrections of our mistakes and areas of ignorance, and letters.(Letters intended for publication should be so marked). Although we will exercise editorial control over material […]
[…] who were informing MI5 in the 1980s about the Labour Party left. ‘People did take money in return for their help. Some of them have prospered within New Labour and now sit in the Lords ….. knows exactly how dozens of Labour Party members reported their comrades for possible treachery during those difficult years.’ […]
[…] which the American and British states wish they hadn’t and are going to pay the traditional price of people in that situation who decline to stay shtum. Notes But not outside it. See the account of Edmonds’ allegations in ‘For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets’ in The Sunday Times of 6 January 2008. ‘Customs […]
[…] on 17 September 1987. He had a ruptured liver. Because of the circumstances an inquest was held at which Fallon’s death was recorded as natural causes. (2) Notes 1. < http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=28888&d16&m=7&y=2003&pix =opinion.jpg& category=Opinion > See also < http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID= 20031022-052400-3673 > at which Boston’s sworn affidavit is discussed after being presented at an October press […]
[…] cropped up once again with the obituary of the former CIA officer Donald Aspinall Allan (Washington Post, 5 August 2006 ). Allan’s career included spells at the New YorkTimes, Newsweek, the Reporter and the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA), all known to be have been used as cover by the CIA. In 1983 Allan […]
[…] is available in abundance and I see little point in simple collation. Plus the spooks don’t seem as important as they did. If someone offered me a new list of the British secret state, an update of the one I published in 1989, I’m not sure I would devote an entire issue of Lobster […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] this bore a remarkable similarity to the government’s statement. The extracts from both reproduced below are from Wellington Pacific Review No 14, in turn taken from the new Australian version of Private Eye, The Eye. Given the number of Australians living in London, copies of The Eye are bound to start being imported. If […]
[…] and partly the whole Cambridge “moles’ saga from the point of view of those who were recruiting and running them. The result is a heavy shower of new bits of information. So, for example, if you ever wondered how much the Soviet Union was paying Guy Burgess to spy in the 1930s, or how […]
[…] of this is based on either blind habit or assumption. Because of the Reductionist mindset of scientists (and those in authority), a single cause is always sought for every disease. Having ‘found’ the one cause, positions, careers, resources, whole industries with their lawyers and political muscle, are devoted to maintaining the ‘wisdom’ of this […]
