Letter from Fred Holroyd to The Guardian

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

This is the text of a letter The Guardian declined to print It was sent from Fred Holroyd on May 13th 1987 Dear sir, It comes as no surprise that Mrs Thatcher over reacted to the media attempting to discover the real facts of the Gibraltar shootings. Her attitude is vulnerable to close scrutiny, especially … Read more

The accountability of the intelligence and security services

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] the Commissioners who review the operation of the various activities authorised by the Act. The position of Intelligence Services Commissioner is currently held by Lord Justice Simon Brown. He is responsible for reviewing and reporting upon the issue and authorisation by the relevant minister of warrants for operations by the Agencies for example warrants […]

USA & the CIA

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

A Covert Life. Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster Ted Morgan New York: Random House, 1999, $29.95 Freedom’s War: The US Crusade Against the Soviet Union Scott Lucas Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999, £45 Secret History: The CIA’s Classified Account of its Operations in Guatemala 1952-54 Nick Cullather Stanford (California): Stanford University Press 1999, £8.95 […]

Rothschild, the right, the far-right and the Fifth Man

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] candidate for the title of Fifth Man has recently entered the arena in the pages of the biography of Sir Stewart Menzies, The Secret Servant, Anthony Cave Brown (Michael Joseph, London 1988). There are some intriguing references to MI6 officer David Footman who was a leading authority on the Soviets within MI6. The hints […]

The rise of warfare capitalism

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] same thing as Stuart Hall and Peter Hitchens. He also wrote off the working-class as a significant political force and therefore agrees with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown that ‘the class war is over’. How then, does he propose to change things? People can run around the world from G8 summit to IMF conferences […]

Journals

Lobster Issue 15 (1988)

[…] Michael Speers and Nigel West, editors. $30/year (4 issues) from Michael Speers, PO Box 232, Weston, VT 05161. USA. International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence: F. Reese Brown, editor-in-chief, $10/year (quarterly) from Intel Publishing Group, PO Box 188, Stroudsburg, PA 18360. USA. Lobster: Robin Ramsay, editor. $14/year (4 issues) from Lobster, 17c Pearson Avenue, […]

Coach into pumpkin: some problems with Paget

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] to the dog in the back seat) but got a good look at the driver and described him as a European male aged approximately 50, with short-cut brown hair. Le Van Than is conspicuously Asian, was 22 years old at the time of the crash and had (and has) a thick mop of jet-black […]

The Tory Right between the wars

Lobster Issue 15 (1988)

[…] 6 January 1923 (for B.E.U.) A constant feature of the Tory right-wing has been its xenophobia. Since the Monday Club’s appearance the targets have been black and brown people in Britain. Before the second World War it was the Eastern Europeans in general and the Jews in particular. These were the ‘aliens’. Immediately after […]

The Myth of the SAS

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] no ground was visible: the mangrove trees were standing in water into which their roots plunged. To make progress, we either had to slosh through waist-deep, dark- brown liquid, making a dangerous amount of noise, or hop from one root to the next – a laborious and exhausting process which wore the arches of […]

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