Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] early April at http://cryptome.org/soil/soiled-dove2.htm appeared a big report, status and origins unclear at time of writing, on BAE, the notorious Al Yamamah deal with the Saudis and Thatcher et al. Looks important. MKUltra Several thousand digitised images of MKUltra documents were provided to Intellnet by an anonymous donor. Archive of document images is at […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
The other Bilderberg Between 1964 and 1966 there was a little-known attempt to establish a new Commonwealth conference modelled on the Bilderberg Group, with Prince Philip lined up to take a leading role. Nothing ever came of it, mainly because of the impact that Rhodesia’s UDI had on Commonwealth affairs. Newly released documents from The […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] capital emerging from the supply of consumer wants (including guns, sex, labour, drugs, untaxed goods and unregulated financial services), the lifting of capital controls by the Reagan- Thatcher generation also meant the globalisation of criminality in all its forms. What happened between the mid-1990s (when the great debate on post-Soviet security took place) and […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
Peter Oborne London: The Free Press (Simon and Schuster), 2005, £7.99, p/b Before his minutely detailed account of some of New Labour’s lies Oborne gives us a potted history of lying in the past 25 years to show us how relatively truthful New Labour’s predecessors were. This old nag won’t run. For example, he […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust Ed. David Bankier New York: Enigma Books, 2006. p/b, $23 US Intelligence and the Nazis Richard Breitman et al New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, p/b, £16.99 On 11 January 1943, the British intercepted ‘one of the most extraordinary messages’ of the war at Bletchley Park: it referred ‘to […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] intelligence services including Count de Marenches, ex Director of the SDECE; Temple Franks and Nicholas Elliot of MI6. “Crozier, Elliot and Franks recently (ie 1982) visited Mrs Thatcher at Chequers for discussions and work.” Crozier’s group designed to ensure victory for Thatcher, Strauss, and to combat terrorism, etc. The group can furnish articles, access […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] interesting for two reasons. One is precisely this ‘tip’ at a time when most of the British electorate had little idea who John Major was and Mrs. Thatcher showed no signs of quitting. The second is the author of this piece, David Moller. The CIA’s links to the American Reader’s Digest during the cold […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] Murdoch three name checks; and John Rentoul of The Independent on Sunday managed ‘10 brief mentions’ in his big Blair book. Was it any different with Margaret Thatcher? ‘Hugo Young’s much-praised book on Margaret Thatcher, One of Us, reserves one minor, passing reference to Murdoch,’ writes Oborne. Will, the political chroniclers be more outspoken […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] sections of the British government, and particularly to MI6, the department charged with protecting Britain’s foreign interests. Target Heseltine? Throughout 1990, the then British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, was fighting for her political life. Dissatisfaction with the Poll Tax, which she had pushed through against the advice of many in her own Cabinet, had […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] War, published in the U.S and Australia, for example, but not here, because of certain sections of it which contain allegations about the business affairs of Mark Thatcher. (See Richard Norton-Taylor in the Guardian October 8 1992) The story in outline has been hinted at often enough: Thatcherfils uses mumsy’s name to open doors […]