Forty Years of Legal Thuggery

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

[…] 1ST SEC FREETOWN 1964 NICOSIA 1964 CRO LATER FO 1969 HEAD OF CHANCERY PEKING 1971 LUXEMBOURG 1973 COUNSELLOR N IRELAND (NI) OFFICE. INVOLVED IN TRUCE WITH PROV IRA. CHIEF OF STATION 1976 COUNSELLOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (FCO) 1978 HEAD OVERSEAS INFO DEPT (OID) 1979 GOVERNORS STAFF SALISBURY 1981 HIGH COMMISSIONER MAURITIUS ALLASON, LT […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] showed that a fertilizer bomb of the kind made by McVeigh could not do the damage attributed to it.(6) (C.f. the much smaller damage done by the IRA bombs in the Ciy of London.) And if these surmises are true it means what? Someone was running McVeigh – or had a line into him […]

The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] killing, both on and off duty, of over 300 of their colleagues. One of the most controversial cases Simpson investigated was the dramatic kidnapping by the Provisional IRA of 45 year-old Thomas Niedermayer, a German national, who was the Managing Director of the Grundig electronics factory on the outskirts of Belfast. He had been […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] of the Communist Party who were de facto agents of the USSR. 7 Another of MI5’s themes of the time – the Soviet Union behind the Provisional IRA – was the subject of another Stewart-Smith pamphlet published in 1976, written by John Biggs-Davison, at the time the Tory frontbench spokesman on Northern Ireland. (22) […]

Intelligent Warfare: The Memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] Nevertheless, in the autumn of 1970 he was appointed to command the 39th Brigade in Northern Ireland. Here he presided over the British campaign against the Provisional IRA in Belfast, which, in every way possible, made the situation worse. How revealing is his account? Let us look at one quite well-known episode: Bloody Sunday. […]

Newsinger on KItson

Lobster Issue

[…] Nevertheless, in the autumn of 1970 he was appointed to command the 39th Brigade in Northern Ireland. Here he presided over the British campaign against the Provisional IRA in Belfast, a campaign that in every way possible made the situation worse. How revealing is his account? Let us look at one quite well-known episode: […]

Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] little dissatisfied. You could well describe Peter Taylor as ‘the spooks favourite conduit’. It is true that he has, occasionally, given unbiased coverage to members of the IRA and other such organisations. However, when it comes to the actions of the British state, he always leans toward the state’s version of events. (I give […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

Lobster Issue

[…] little dissatisfied. You could well describe Peter Taylor as ‘the spooks favourite conduit’. It is true that he has, occasionally, given unbiased coverage to members of the IRA and other such organisations. However, when it comes to the actions of the British state, he always leans toward the state’s version of events. (I give […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

Lobster Issue

[…] little dissatisfied. You could well describe Peter Taylor as ‘the spooks favourite conduit’. It is true that he has, occasionally, given unbiased coverage to members of the IRA and other such organisations. However, when it comes to the actions of the British state, he always leans toward the state’s version of events. (I give […]

Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] rise of Thatcher within the Conservative Party, died as a result of the blast.1 Less than six months later, on 27 August 1979, co-ordinated attacks by the IRA killed Lord Mountbatten (a relative of both the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh) in a fishing boat off the coast of the Irish Republic and […]

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