Starting Notes On The British In Vietnam

Lobster Issue 4 (1984)

[…] 1969. During the Vietnam War the GCHQ monitoring station at Little Sai Wan in Hong Kong (UKC 201 in the international Sigint network) provided the Americans with intelligence up to 1975, long after Harold Wilson had – publicly at least – expressed his Government’s opposition to the war. The NSA co-ordinated all signals intelligence […]

Groupings on the British Right

Lobster Issue 13 (1987)

[…] and propaganda. The name reminds me of the Institute for the Study of Conflict and this may turn out to be another in the evolving sequence of intelligence fronts which includes ISC, Forum World Features and Control Risks. Moral Re-armament MRA last appeared on the fringes of the miners’ strike. Now Manchester Chief Constable […]

Deadly Illusions

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Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] these are very much the KGB secrets the Russian government and KGB does want us to read. And no wonder. This is a story of how Soviet intelligence ran rings round the Brits. If there are any secrets the British government is trying to keep buried here, I missed them. But I’m probably suffering […]

The View From The Bridge

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] announced that Combat 18 was an MI5 ‘honey trap on the far right’; that one of its founders, the American Harold Covington, ‘had known links to the intelligence services’ and was a ‘long-time asset of the FBI’; and that its creation by MI5 was ‘understandable and possibly justifiable at the time’. I kid you […]

America, drugs, corruption and the British national interest

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] March The Scotsman carried the comments of Juval Aviv, PamAm’s senior Lockerbie investigator.(5) Aviv offered a version of the story first told by Lester Coleman, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer, in Trail of the Octopus. (6) The Aviv-Coleman version is that the bomb was put on the plane at Frankfurt. In 1987 US […]

How many divisions does the Pope have?

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] seeking support for what was called a Danube Confederation. This was actually a recasting of Intermarium, a project that the Vatican, and, to a certain extent, British Intelligence, had tinkered with since the 20s. This produced little actual success. Two British-backed attempts to install pro-western clericalist governments in Poland and Slovakia before the arrival […]

‘Conspiracy Theories’ and Clandestine Politics

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] though they do not conform to the elaborate and often bizarre scenarios concocted by conspiracy theorists. How, indeed, could it be otherwise in a world full of intelligence agencies, national security bureaucracies, clandestine revolutionary organizations, economic pressure groups, secret societies with hidden political agendas, and the like? No monolithic conspiracy There has never been, […]

Scott et al

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

[…] to the bottom of a subject as complex as this simply by appointing a judge and a couple of bright lawyers. You would need a large team, intelligence personnel with access to everything and Prime Ministerial power to sack people for non-cooperation or obstruction, and expert guidance from some of the participants. And none […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] weapons and its weapons potential. Some of these might have been true but there is so much disinformation and propaganda being generated by the US and UK intelligence services there is no way of telling with most of it. Three spectacular examples of fakery are worth noting.On 27 September, in ‘Agency Disavows Report on […]

Tittle-Tattle

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] general election against then Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, and has since become Rector of the University of Dundee. Once the use of torture in the production of intelligence became an issue parliamentarians could no longer ignore, Murray hoped he would be called to give evidence to the Joint Human Rights Committee investigating precisely that […]

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