UFOs in the White House Pantry: The Rockefeller Initiative

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

For almost two generations, researchers in the UFO field have suspected that there is a cover-up by US government agencies which prevents any meaningful progress in discovering the facts behind the UFO myth. The single most important factor supporting this view has been the alleged crash of a UFO at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. … Read more

Curried Knight: Maxwell Knight and the MI5 in-house history

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] trumped-up charges of plotting to assassinate Lloyd George. The Zinoviev Letter is mentioned, but not the fact that MI5 officers (notably Joseph Ball, who later became a Conservative Party official) were prime suspects for leaking it to the press in order to damage the Labour Party’s chances at the 1924 election. Curry implicates British […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] We’ve got another MP who takes a serious interest in the British secret state. In the past we have had MPs who had been secret servants (mostly Conservative) and a few Labour MPs who took a temporary interest. Almost twenty years ago Ken Livingstone took a sustained interest until the researcher who was generating […]

A Century of Spin

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] pro-nuclear, pro-EU and pro-destroying the public sector. The only significant difference is that the Cameroons are linked to a different cluster of corporate sponsors. The NuLab and Conservative parties’ use of PR is discussed but that isn’t the meat of those chapters. This is the best introduction to real power politics in this society […]

Clippings Digest: August – November 1984

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

[…] League. The Tory MP Sir Patrick Wall is the BACC Hon. President. BACC joined the WACL in 1983. Dally is ex-RAF, and was an agent for the Conservative Party for 11 years. He worked for something called Intelligence International Ltd. from 1969 to 1984. BACC recently published a book by Dally, The Hong Kong […]

The death of Diana: an update

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] agreed with the Coroner and rejected the application.(5) Charles Wardle MP One of the more intriguing events occurred in March of this year when Charles Wardle, the Conservative MP for Bexhill and Battle who asked a number of pertinent questions about the crash in the House of Commons in June 1999, joined the board […]

People

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] his knowledge of one of the anti-Harold Wilson plots of the 1960s, reported on p. 174 of the Dorril/Ramsay book Smear! Clive Derby-Lewis, briefly a South African Conservative MP, elected Honourary President of the renamed Western Goals Institute in February 1992, was arrested in April for his alleged part in a conspiracy to assassinate […]

All the news that fits

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] Observer had stood out against the British invasion of Suez in 1956, despite courting the scorn of the government and the loss of some of its more conservative readers and advertisers. And yet this newspaper which had thrived on scepticism was seduced into accepting unproven and extravagant claims; this flagship of the left was […]

Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] series this hasn’t mattered too much, but with a subject like this the results are pretty catastrophic. The most striking example concerns Joseph Ball, who founded the Conservative Research Department back in the 1930s, which was then, and may still be, the Tories’ covert ops./black propaganda operation. Ball is an interesting figure in the […]

Web update

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

Thanks again to Terry Hanstock and David Turner for contributions. Although all URLs are checked shortly before publication, occasionally websites unaccountably disappear. Contributions, comments and info welcome – my email address is Secrecy, censorship FOI and released records Freedom of Information Draft Bill http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/foi/dfoibill.htm Link to the draft FOI Bill (May 1999) and FOI … Read more

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