Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
Parapolitics: “Generally, covert politics, the conduct of public affairs not by rational debate and responsible decision-making but by indirection, collusion and deceit.” – Peter Dale Scott The Watergate tag is appropriate to Kincora because, like that epic affair, an initial minor offence was the key that unlocked many secret doors. As James Angleton noted: “A … Read more
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] the security and intelligence services. Communications between Britain and Ireland were intercepted via an MOD installation at Capenhurst in Cheshire and later, it is claimed, by the Echelon system. The rights groups say that RIPA fails to provide adequate safeguards to protect individual privacy, a principle enshrined in the HRA and ECHR. (3) In […]
Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
As Steve Dorril shows in his essay on Permindex, the lack of a satisfactory resolution to the assassination of Kennedy allowed Soviet intelligence to use the event to their own ends. The French also had a go with the pseudonymous book Farewell America which made public considerable information about the CIA’s activities while pretending to … Read more
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] The HSCA, however, concluded that Oswald never went to Taiwan and remained at NAS (Naval Air Station) Atsugi as part of the MAG-11 (Marine Aircraft Group) rear echelon unit. From page 220 of the HSCA report: ‘It has been stated that Oswald claimed to have served in Taiwan. The committee’s review of his military […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] Technologies is the data analytics company that was founded by PayPal creator and venture capitalist Peter Thiel. Their software uses the same principle as the ‘Five Eyes’ Echelon system of keywords to trigger flags.32 Palantir software looks at, amongst other things, ‘emails and browser histories, GPS locations from company-issued smartphones, printer and download activity, […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] while manipulatory cunts using actors such as party organisers, mass organisation leaders, propagandists and covert operators — in short academics — would appear in the elite upper echelon gaining prestige and influence: taking on the appearance and vocabulary of top cunts. Here we need only drop hints that academic cuntologists, like Hayek, could be […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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