Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] human rights and press freedom sites; newsgroups. Includes Richard Tomlinson’s May 1999 declaration to French magistrate on the death of Princess Diana (www.inside-news.ch/Tomlinson/Tomlinson_deposition.htm) and the list of MI6 officers (www.inside-news.ch/Tomlinson/List/Liste_Alpha.htm). Echelon Watch http://www.echelonwatch.org http://www.aclu.org/echelonwatch/index.html Website administered by the American Civil Liberties Union in conjunction with EPIC and the Omega Foundation, which produced the Appraisal […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] the Telegraphs – it is reasonable to assume that there is a decent chance the material is coming from the Foreign Office or the psy-ops people at MI6. Beyond that little is certain. I do not see what is accomplished by suggesting, as he does here, that Martin Bright of The Observer might (or […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] are therefore inaccessible. (5) Who dares to say that our civil servants are lacking in initiative? Same old Con Undeterred by the disinformation given to him by MI6 about Gadaffi’s son which led to a successful libel action against The Sunday Telegraph,(6)and undeterred by all the nonsense he ran in the run-up the attack […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] 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 campaign against Colin Wallace, discussed in Lobster 16, which led, […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] is still transparently false. There is no ‘syndicate’, no matter how loosely you define it – and his definition is very loose indeed. And how long are authors going to continue taking seriously John Coleman (he of the ‘Committee of 300’ nonsense, cited extensively here), and his description of himself as a former MI6 officer?
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] years ago that they are now. The two characters who receive this treatment are the brothers Paul and Hume Boggis-Rolfe, together with Carl Aarvold. Paul Boggis-Rolfe, ex- MI6, was allegedly involved in drafting the land deal for which de Courcy was framed. Hume Boggis-Rolf, ex-MI5, was a senior official at the Lord Chancellor’s department […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] going to win, particularly as communist-affiliated groups were attempting to take the initiative on this soon after WWII. As Stephen Dorril has stressed in his book on MI6, the British involvement in these activities was ahead of the Americans in many respects. Aldrich related how the Cultural Relations Department, a forerunner to the more […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] one of the first historians to acknowledge the parapolitical dimension in modern British history, from the formation of the Special Branch to the construction of the new MI6 headquarters over a century later. This is allied to a perception that covert forces, including in the 1970s the CIA, have generally worked to protect the […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
Editorially Writing in mid-January… good news is the arrival of The Digger, apparently set fair to replace Private Eye as the major outlet – major above ground outlet – for British parapolitics. (Lobster, as one British academic said to me, is ‘underground’…). The new Kincora-Blunt trail, opened up by Ken Livingstone in the House of […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] Paget MP (Labour — Eton, Trinity College, European Movement); Conservative Cabinet member Duncan Sandys; Patrick Wall MP (founder of the secret 92 Group of Tory MPs);(15) ex MI6 officer Stephen Hastings MP; Lord Salisbury, the Society’s President, and his son Lord Cranborne; Lord Coleraine, Judge Gerald Sparrow, Lord Hinchenbrooke (Victor Montagu), Lord Forester, the […]
