Smearing Wallace and Holroyd

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

[…] and Richard Koldewey. I just give them their busfare kick them out (usually by stamping on their clutching fingers) and correct from where I see the stone-throwing mod forming. Richard Koldewey commands the 1 RTR Air Squadron here in Omagh and is a dead keen novice with about 40 free-falls to his name. He’s […]

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Forty Years of Legal Thuggery

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] DEFENCE COUNSELLOR UK DELEGATION TO NATO 1971 PRIVATE SEC TO SEC OF STATE FOR DEFENCE 1973 UNDER SEC CIVIL SERVICE DEPT 1975 ASSIST UNDER SEC OF STATE MOD 1976-83 DEP UNDER SEC OF STATE HOME OFFICE 1984 PERMANENT UNDER SEC OF STATE NI ANNAN, LORD NOEL GILROY OBE (1946) B 25.12.16 KINGS COLL CAMBRIDGE, […]

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Clippings Digest: August – November 1984

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

[…] Clive Ponting have their mail opened. (Guardian 5 September) GCHQ De-unionisation of GCHQ apparently resisted by Sir Douglas Wass (at the Treasury) and Sir Frank Cooper (at MOD) when it was first suggested in late 1982. (Times 28 August) GCHQ staff being asked to allow security staff to see their medical records. (Daily Telegraph […]

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Operation Black Dog

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] with the US Department of Defense officials, no record of the mission had been found. Clearly this was no denial. Moreover, the official who responded to the MOD enquiry was Bernard Rostker, the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illness. Hardly the person one would expect to be privy to top secret information on a […]

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George Korkala’s address book

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

[…] S Rajh Jughemia 11867 Alexander 371 2399 Momtaz Ali 303 390-0693 212 371 1152 Carry Majgurski 212 988 5550 Michael W Yarbourgh MGT Group Inc 505-268 4100 MOD Roger Dach Maj 2184164 Larry Majewski 9885550 Murbe Abdul 305 723 2311 Murbe’s mother (Marjon): Kenya – 23436 Geo Carsten (MOD) 632 6444 Peter Ford – […]

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Big Boys Rules

Book cover
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] an interesting figure. A sometime full-time soldier, now with the BBC, Urban affects not to be just the traditional defence correspondent, dependent on the droppings of the MOD press office. He notes in this book that while he was entitled to non-attributable briefings from the MOD, he chose not to have them while writing […]

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The Campus Connection: Military Research on Campus

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

Rob Evans, Nicola Butler, Eddie Goncalves Student CND, London 1991, £3.00 The contents list is reproduced here. This is not my field but Rob Evans of the Campaign Against Military Research on Campus (CAMROC) now has quite a track record in this area. This is available at £3.00 from Student CND, 162 Holloway Road, London […]

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Shorts

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] by the Ministry of Defence that in an operation called HORNBEAM, trawlers had been used during the first Cold War to spy on Soviet shipping. But the MOD spokesperson refused to confirm that some trawlers had carried intelligence officers. Statewatch Bulletin (Jan/Feb 1992) includes an important update to their paper on Gladio network, quoting […]

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Why are we with Uncle Sam?

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] to serve in NATO. The US and the UK have dominated serious appointments in NATO for years, for this reason. It is the driving priority of the MOD to keep it that way. They do not think in terms of national interest, but of both MOD interest and the American interest.’ And talking about […]

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Re:

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] and GCHQ.’ David Sharrock, ‘D-notice slapped on MoD’s history of censorship, Secrecy and the media, after spat over “turgid” writing’, The Times, 24 October 2008; Jack Lefley, ‘MOD censors its censor’s history for being boring’, The Evening Standard, 24 October 2008. Anon., ‘Former spy wins first round of “son of Spycatcher” book publication battle’, […]

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