Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] which began: ‘A Spinwatch investigation has revealed that journalists working for the Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC) have been commissioned to provide news reports to the BBC. The BBC has been using these reports as if they were genuine news. In fact, the SSVC is entirely funded by the Ministry of Defence as […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
Someone pointed out to me that Lobster 42 ranged from Gladstone to UFOs, a spread probably unique today. But this range has a downside: things get picked up and then sidelined. One such area is the field bounded on one side by what is known as mind control and on the other by non-lethal technologies. […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] was the then chairman of the company, Pauline Neville-Jones, who, according to Greg Dyke, was one of the principal architects of his removal as director-General of the BBC over the ‘sexed-up dossier’ affair. The chairman of an arms firm is able to intervene in BBC reporting of a disastrous war from which her company […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] seen at Conservative Party Central Office); Tony Kerpel (last seen listed as a ‘consultant’ to the recent (AugustSeptember 1993) 3-part tv series by Kenneth Baker MP on BBC TV); and Edward Leigh (now an MP and junior Minister). Crozier also claims to have created the psy-ops outfits of the Coalition for Peace through Security […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
Clippings Digest to May 31st. 1984 Policing The Miners Up to May 30th. These are only brief references to the major elements. Magistrates setting restrictive bail conditions. Guardian 5th April Police trying to buy NUM badges Guardian 19th May Police changing their ID numbers for picket duty Tribune 25th May Pickets charged with conspiracy for […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
Dr. David Kelly The death of Dr David Kelly refuses to go away. Two groups of medical experts have expressed doubts about the suicide verdict. The International Toxicology Advisory Group have queried the conclusion that Kelly swallowed at least 20 co-proxamol tablets, which contributed to his death; (1) and a group of surgeons wrote to […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] hard to think of anyone with a better motive or a stronger track record in Cold War and ‘war on terror’ disinformation. Wolfowitz, New Labour and the BBC On June 10 1997, shortly after New Labour was elected, Paul Wolfowitz was special guest at a party thrown by the British Ambassador in Washington, Sir […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] to incinerate every last surviving particle of nerve agent. The best approach for Mr. Hambling, as for Mr. Hollick , is to approach Tim Sebastian, the former BBC Correspondent who investigated Black Cat, and to also speak with the Countess of Mar. Tim Sebastian confirmed to me in a telephone call that he had […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] of the inability of Labour and Democratic politicians to look reality in the face. Tunes and pipers Phil Chamberlain alerted me the reference in the blog of BBC Chief Political Correspondent Nick Robinson to Gordon Brown reading Frances Stonor Saunders’ Who Paid The Piper?, her long account of the CIA’s ‘cultural war’ in the […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] of the bug was for fear that Stalker might discover that MI5 had also bugged the car in which McTerr, Toman and Burns were killed. According to BBC reporter Chris Moore, ‘the security forces involved in the covert surveillance operation were able to listen to the conversation going on in the car.’ (21) An […]