[…] ; and at and are accounts of two of the long-range psy-ops projects against the Soviet bloc, one by the CIA, the other by the USIA. Jonestown:the latest editions of the Jonestown report are now at . Fielding M. McGehee III, whose project this is, comments: ‘The sponsoring site for the report at includes […]
[…] American state has gone ‘beyond bullets’, that it doesn’t need violence to quell/discourage dissent. But I suspect the bullets are still there, in reserve, just in case. Notes As did David Osler (who wrote in Lobster 33) who called it ‘one of the most enjoyable current affairs books I read in 2007’ on his […]
[…] about this: we’re not making enough money and hope that our readers will not be put off. (The original Lobster was 16 pages and cost 50p. 75p for 32 pages still seems reasonable value). As the list of shops on the rear cover shows our distribution is slowly expanding – due entirely to the […]
[…] 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.’ […]
[…] in mind the following possible charges: an offence against Section 84 of the Larceny Act 1861 in relation to the recommendation to shareholders in 1966 relating to new options being granted to Rowland. A conspiracy to defraud in relation to Nyaschere and the Shamrock mine of which the essence was personal enrichment of the […]
[…] A. B. Butler and others to reach an accommodation with Germany (if not with Hitler) during – and after – the ‘phoney war’. Some sense of the new synthesis Newton has achieved is conveyed by this paragraph on p. 74: ‘Outside the government, belief that the German menace would fade if the Versailles Treaty […]
[…] adversary is inherent to the British approach.’ In his interesting short history of anthropology’s relationship to US overt and covert foreign policy in the 20th century, McFate notes that the US military’s need of anthropologists is stymied somewhat by the state of American anthropology after the Vietnam War. ‘Rejecting anthropology’s status as the handmaiden […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of Lenin, one of the Soviet Union’s highest honours. This factoid, plus the previously revealed fat ASIO file on Clark going back to the 1950s, was enough for a number of Australian papers to allege that Clark was a KGB agent. The Herald Sun (24 August 1996) ran a front-page story headlined ‘Red Agent?’. […]
[…] Dowling, the Sunday Mirror correspondent there from 1970-74. Dowling was reluctant to talk much about that period of his life but, yes, he remembered Wallace, and k new about the psy ops unit Information Policy. He mentioned a novel about his time there he had written. It had caused trouble for him, been withdrawn […]
