Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] officials of the Atlantic Council, which has the astonishing ‘charitable purpose’ of building support for NATO. It incorporates Peace Through NATO, the group central to Michael Heseltine’s MoD campaign against CND in the early 1980s. It receives over £100,000 a year from the Foreign Office, as well as payments from the Dulverton Trust.(18) TUCETU […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
[…] who had declined to sign The Beatles. But even if they had pursued the Wilson steer towards Wallace, in 1976/7 finding him would have been difficult: the MOD has parked him in Preston. Had they found him, Wallace says today: ‘…if I had been made aware that the former PM had asked Penrose and […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)
[…] the Thatcher government to push through a highly ambitious nuclear power programme which set the context for this murder. We know from Cathy Massiter (17) that the MoD and Home Office were using MI5 to monitor anti-nuclear war protesters, and from Gareth Parry (18) that an American company, thought to be pressurised water reactor […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] which came in after 1997 which I had not seen before and intelligence got swept up in that.’ During the bombing of Yugoslavia the pressure from the MOD press office to come up with good news was intense. Morrison said: ‘What I did, in effect, was within my crisis staff, set up in effect […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] the 1980s battle of Helen Smiths father, a retired policeman, to prove that his daughter, a nurse, was murdered in Saudi Arabia. This pitched him against spook, MOD and FO officials alike – along with the British class system – who perceived state and private sector interests to be best served by cynical cover-up […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] including confidential legally-privileged material are being routinely intercepted by GCHQ and processed by 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 […]