What Price National Security?

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] place under a Labour government again (Cf the ABC case in 1977-8), and that the Labour Party doesn’t know how to deal with national security and the intelligence services. Dorril said authors are under a lot of pressure to cooperate with the D-notice Committee; if they refuse to cooperate, their books are sometimes passed […]

Historical Notes: MI5 and the Wilson Plot. USA and Chile. Hess

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] full support’ but warned against premature action liable to backfire. Meanwhile the CIA agents and their friends in Chile were to deploy ‘propaganda, black operations, surfacing of intelligence or disinformation, personal contacts, or anything else your imagination can conjure’ to secure the downfall of the Allende regime.(4) Of course Allende’s left-wing government, the first […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] think it was ‘an inside job’. But this does not mean that there is nothing to be investigated. As with most official reports into events with sensitive intelligence and/ or political dimensions – and 9/11 had both, in spades – the report into 9/11 was concerned with establishing the official narrative (Al Qaeda attacks) […]

Clippings Jan./Feb. 1984

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] of police phone tapping. Police and Criminal Evidence Bill Government guaranteed pupils’ confidential school records will be immune from police seizure. Daily Telegraph 18th January 1984. Police Intelligence Files A box of said found on rubbish tip in Edinburgh. Contents confirm that the police are keeping files on almost everybody. Described by police spokesperson […]

Following in Uncle Sam’s dirty footsteps: chemical and biological warfare testing in the UK

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] which they confessed to crimes they palpably had not committed, and the accounts given by the POW’s from the Korean War, attracted the interest of the Western intelligence in research and development of methods to control and alter the human mind. The judgements at Nuremberg and human rights issues became irrelevant once more. As […]

Joseph K and the spooky launderette

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] had been laundered in my name through Dutch bank accounts by the late Dennis Robertson, my ex-wife’s accountant; and that he laundered funds for SIS, the British intelligence service. The core of the application process was an official interview conducted by the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry would then make a decision based on […]

Letter from America: CIA set for Pentagon buyout?

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

CIA set for Pentagon buyout? Lester Coleman, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) man who co-authored Trail of the Octopus (about CIA drug-channel involvement in the Lockerbie bombing) writes in the latest Unclassified (quarterly publication of the Association of Former National Security Alumni, no. 34, Fall 1995), that the CIA feels itself threatened by a […]

The ‘Wilson plots’ and related parapolitics (Book review)

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] and he accepts Wilson’s (fictitious) version of his contacts with them. Altogether a most incompetent and evasive piece of work. The House of Lords debate on the Intelligence Services Bill, 9 December, 1993 Lord (Roy) Jenkins of Hillhead: ‘I experienced in the Security Service what I can best describe as an inherent lack of […]

Spook PR

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] agencies. In addition, to further this, it requires personnel (spies) employed locally or from Whitehall who have the appropriate attributes, including, for example, ethnicity, to seek out intelligence (without, it could be added, any effort being put into their personal safety) and/or maximise relationships, sometimes including with such local agencies. (16) If the last […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] late 1950s covered by Carew. They had their own ideas; there was conflict. And there was also Joseph McCarthy. Carew concludes: ‘Links formed within the world of intelligence are not easily broken, and there is no reason at all to suppose that the winding-up of the FTUC and the termination of CIA operations funded […]

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