British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] 26.5.66 1934 JOURNALIST ON SEVERAL PAPERS 1940 SOE FORCE 136 (LAOS) FRENCH RESISTANCE 1945 WAR CRIMES COMMISSION. INDO CHINA, BURMA AND NW EUROPE 1948 DAILY MIRROR 1950 BBC FOREIGN NEWS, HEAD OF PRESS DIV MALAYAN INFORMATION SERVICES 1959 SENIOR INFO OFFICER CRO 1961 1ST SEC (INFO) FREETOWN, 1ST SEC (INFO) CANBERRA 1963 PRINCIPAL INFO […]

Don’t Mention The War: Northern Ireland, Propaganda and the Media

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] For all his deconstruction and demystification, Miller has not done enough to show the allegiance to the state among media personnel. Daphne Park, for example, of the BBC Board of Governors, is not described as former senior MI6 officer. Paul Wilkinson is frequently quoted, but there is nothing on his part in the disinformation […]

Mind control etc

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. […]

Forty Years of Legal Thuggery

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] Debretts and Burkes Peerage, and many other books on intelligence during the war. ABRAMS, MARK ALEXANDER B 27.4.06 LSE, REFORM 1933 RESEARCH DEPT LONDON PRESS EXCHANGE 1939 BBC OVERSEAS DEPT 1941 POLITICAL WARFARE EXEC AND SHAEF 1946-70 MANAGING DIRECTOR RESEARCH SERVICES LTD 1964- CHAIRMAN (EXEC COMM) POLITICAL ECONOMIC PLANNING ACLAND, SIR ANTONY ARTHUR KCMG […]

Sources

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 […]

MI5: New Threats for Old? Turning up the Heat: MI5 after the Cold War

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] ground and if anyone has some on the IPLO, I would be interested to see it. Her talk that night is available, incidentally, in printed form, from BBC Educational Developments, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TS. No price is given on my copy. One variant of which is the ‘Kurdish extremist threat’. The Sunday […]

Parafinance: Enron and drilling for red ink

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] congressmen. Chairing the relevant committee in Congress, Phil Gramm was among the leading beneficiaries. His wife, Wendy Gramm, had retired as head of the regulatory body governing futures trading in commodities and became head of Enron’s audit committee. She had a relatively small salary but rather large stock options.. BBC News, Friday, November 5, 1999

Kennedy assassination miscellany: Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

[…] exposed by its editor-in-chief, Mr Jacques Verges, as ‘agent provocateur’. Mr Gibson then married a white woman in London, had broadcast on the African Service of the BBC, had worked for CBS news in New York and Agence France Presse in Paris as a specialist in African affairs.” (pp431-2) There were stories, disinformation, linking […]

Re:

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] documentary The Power of Nightmares. His remarks were nowhere to be seen or heard when BBC1 broadcast highlights of the ceremony later that evening. (Anon., ‘Row as BBC cuts Bafta speech’, The Guardian 18 April 2005) These include former Tory Defence Secretary and Foreign Secretary, Sir Malcolm Rifkind (non executive Chairman); ex-CIA operative, Jerry […]

Spooks and the House of Commons

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] MI6 is rigging the House of Commons procedure in favour of “Red Ken”.’ Quite soon after this article appeared Neil Grant, then a schoolteacher, was offered and accepted a job at the BBC with Panorama, where he is now a producer, and ceased to supply Livingstone with questions about the British spooks and Northern Ireland.

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