Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] Chomsky and Herman is worth having and the Pilger pieces, written in the weeks preceding the invasion, stand up pretty well. There are interesting snippets on the intelligence services and disinformation, psy-ops, US propaganda and media behaviour. The material which has survived best is the essays on the workings of the media and state […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)
[…] portions of it had survived various Gestapo crack-downs and had gone on to become embedded in the new pro-NATO West German state.) Kilzer reasons that because the intelligence provided by the Orchestra to the Soviets was so good, so detailed and so close to the commands issuing from Hitler’s HQ, the source of this […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
[…] (with support from several religious leaders), businesses (British and European bankers, insurers, and manufacturers for example), and by the EU itself. Following the publication of The Economist Intelligence Unit report, Britain in Europe, in May 1961, several of these organisations merged. This report followed two earlier studies, in 1957 and 1958, both of which […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
[…] sold to Spaniards who have no national interest in promoting London’s Heathrow as a gateway to Britain. See Private Eye 27 September 2007. It is possible the intelligence reform highlighted by Nick Clegg MP has been stood down. He was quoted in The Times 11 September 2007 with a plan ‘which would mean a […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)
[…] ‘Peter Wright’ was, according to The Times, 10 November 1952, ‘a professor of history in Cawnpore from 1937 to 1939. During the war he was in the intelligence service, and was Press censor at Delhi’. He was expelled by the colonial authorites in Kenya for being too friendly with members of Jomo Kenyatta’s Kenya […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)
[…] to disappear from view is what made for such a protracted manhunt; and the book itself is a fascinating case study of how the FBI and related intelligence agencies interact to compile information and track their subject. As it is, Coogan’s biography at last centrally locates Yockey, and his importance to post-war fascism, by […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)
[…] of the party which found its voice within the Labour movement through Socialist Commentary and, more widely, through Encounter magazine, one of the wide range of Central Intelligence Agency-funded activities fronted by the Congress for Cultural Freedom from the early days of the Cold War. His perspective is one wholly, almost perversely, absent from […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] ISBN 9780955610547 There are a number of talks in Politics and Paranoia about Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd. (Holroyd had been in the British Army Special Military Intelligence Unit and Wallace had been a Senior Information Officer for the Army, both in Northern Ireland in the 1970s.) Looking back on this now it is […]