Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the men who stole the world by Nicholas Shaxson

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] West Africa. The ELF affair is written up in his previous book, Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil, which had large multinationals, the political and intelligence elites of leading nations, corrupt leaders of developing nations and slush funds administered offshore as ‘a great brothel where nobody knows who is doing what’. It […]

Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] to achieve a rapid seizure of power in the name of the ‘National Will’, in senior ranks of the armed forces and sections of the security and intelligence services, on the Right of the Conservative Party, in business and financial circles and among sections of the media. The object seems to have been the […]

War on Terror Inc

Lobster Issue

[…] will be the decision by the American state – with its British chum tagging along behind, as per usual – to privatise much of its military and intelligence services; essentially to surrender its monopoly on the use of violence for political ends. Why did the US and UK military and intelligence agencies, qua agencies, […]

A Thorn in Their Side: The Hilda Murrell murder by Robert Green with Kate Dewes

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] in late 1982 when I was on leave before ending my Naval career. I was one of only two officers in Northwood with access to top secret intelligence signals relating to the Belgrano sinking who had taken redundancy.’ The other officer was also burgled, his house ransacked and nothing taken. Even Francis Pym MP, […]

On getting it wrong and getting it right: Ronald Stark, LSD and the CIA

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] Stark’s involvement in LSD production was either part of a CIA operation, or tolerated by the agency as long as Stark was in a position to supply intelligence. The parapolitical ‘classics’ in this field are: • • Stewart Tendler and David May, The Brotherhood of Eternal Love: From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia – […]

The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] gone along with it in the first place. Nor is it any good to pin the blame solely on General MacArthur, for egging Hoover on with false intelligence about communist infiltration of the protests. Hoover had other and better sources of information available, but chose instead to rely on someone who drew out his […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] about his dealings with Canada’s CSIS in Lobster 65: ‘Canada’s spy agency gone rogue: Prime Minister Harper couldn’t care less’ at . CSIS is Canada’s Security and Intelligence Service. 4 We have provided the Court with considerable sworn testimony by affidavit, including detailed testimony on the Zersetzen crimes and their cover up. This sworn […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] because it did not stop Corbyn from being ‘a communist fellowtraveller’. (p. 37) Bower does his level best to assemble evidence that Corbyn was working for Czech intelligence in the late 1980s. They gave him the codename ‘COB’, presumably short for Corbyn and considered him a ‘potential collaborator’. But in the end Bower has […]

Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] Air Force Phillips Laboratory, and the Air Force Materiel Command. An Air Force document advocating the application of ‘benign weather modification’ – the biggest oxymoron since ‘military intelligence ’– noted back in 1997 that ‘The Chinese recognize the value of weather modification and believe, incorrectly, that the US military continues to use weather as […]

The Clandestine Caucus: a minor update

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] recommended that a ‘Home Desk’ should be ‘added to the Information Research Department . . . to act as the focus for the collation and dissemination of intelligence about communist activities on the home front’. McEvoy describes some of the later concerns of the Home committee – for example the historian Eric Hobsbawm and […]

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