The ‘Terrorist Threat’ in Britain

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] the British Right’s ideological package, but in the past few years they have become much more explicit. At one level it looks fairly straightforward. The British military/ intelligence complex has been preparing for years for the time when the ‘Soviet threat’ ceases to guarantee their budgets. And that might be soon. Georgi(?) Arbatov, one […]

Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] Haig, a popular candidate; second, although not named, he is situated in the past of Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward. Hougan says that Woodward worked for Naval Intelligence at the highest levels and speculates that Deep Throat was connected to Admiral Zumwalt who was opposed to Nixon’s foreign policy. Woodward has denied this, as […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] ‘……the armed forces, police or national security services‘ – a phrase whose time is a-coming, I think; a little hint of the amalgamation of the security and intelligence services now being talked of. (See Corinne Souza’s piece in Lobster 40.) Things reptilian Despite my best efforts to avoid David Icke’s nonsensical ravings a dollop […]

My enemy’s enemy…: Museum Street

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] scandals blighted the Labour Party. Were these events connected? Co-ordinated? If so — and there is no evidence yet — what was the mechanism? The CANZAB counter- intelligence conferences begun in the 1960s look interesting…. Below, Owen Wilkes discusses the first book, albeit a novel, to attempt to elaborate the New Zealand situation; and […]

‘A Most Extraordinary Case’

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] to your case, and are unable to assist you further.’ Kennedy wrote to the Home Secretary, Jack Straw, three times in June/July 1999. The replies, from the Intelligence and Security Liaison Unit of the Home Office Organised and International Crime Directorate (12 August 1999) and from the Home Secretary’s Advisory Board, Metropolitan Police Committee […]

Historical Notes (De Courcy, Pilcher and Hess; The 1949 sterling crisis)

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] ran a publication called Review of World Affairs, a kind of running commentary on the international scene. The USSR suspected that this was an arms length British intelligence operation whose purpose was to sow distrust between members of the wartime Grand Alliance so that when the war finished Britain would be positioned for an […]

Reviews of Lobster journal

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[…] documentation, and in the absence of the rhetoric of the radical left so prevalent in its brother publications ..” — Hayden B. Peake, The Reader’s Guide to Intelligence Periodicals (1992), pages 86-89 “It was a reference at the end of an article in an issue of Lobster that led to the founding of the […]

Export or Die: Britain’s Defence Trade with Iran and Iraq

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

[…] out that the Foreign Secretary and the Prime Minister would have been informed, on the basis of the former’s responsibility for SIS and the latter’s interest in intelligence affairs, not to mention her ‘specific interest in Iraq’s activities’.(1) All the same, a careful reading of the Scott Report does support Miller’s general if not […]

Death of the Strong Man

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] sabotage or a lack of security for the crash, Lt. Gen. Ahmad Gul will almost certainly have to step down as head of the powerful Inter Services Intelligence organisation, ISI. As head of ISI, Gul is the key figure involved in the training and equipping of the mojahedin based around Peshawar, and is their […]

The two Indonesias and the two Americas

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] East Timor were routinely beaten while in the process of being detained…. Four residents of Lavateri village near Baucau, East Timor detained on April 4 by an intelligence team, were reportedly beaten with rifle butts, with one individual suffering a broken rib and another having a cross carved into the palm of her hand. […]

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