ELF, microwaves, etc. update

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] Victorian” ‘. In it Alexander complains about Victorian’s success in getting information and notes on p. 2, ‘I have learned that the CIA has asked both British Intelligence and the police to assist in resolving problems’ with Victorian. This may or may not have anything to do with the fact that Victorian no longer […]

The Perfect English Spy

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] – with G. K. Young prominent – needed reigning in. They were too expensive and too embarrassing when things went wrong. White wanted SIS to be an intelligence service – yes, with clandestine sources – but also one which, he could assure his colleagues in Whitehall, would not embarrass them. No more coup plotting […]

Mind control and microwave update

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] this field, they commented on ‘The increasing number of persons contacting us for assistance in ending what they believe to be electronic harassment by elements of U.S. Intelligence’. The July issue of their magazine Unclassified (discussed above) has a couple of pages on ‘microwave harassment’. That ANSC is giving credence to the microwave/mind control […]

Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare 1945-60

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Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] the perceptions of the American tax-payer and the subject populations of the informal American empire. (Alternatively, this shows how loyal American academics helped the military and the intelligence services win the war with communism.) My problem with it is that I know nothing at all about ‘modern communication theory’ or its practitioners; and learning, […]

The KGB Lawsuits

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] Ethnos. In all three cases Crozier and a large team of researchers, with financial support from Goldsmith and additional aid from a large cast of (chiefly US) intelligence officers, tried to find proof of KGB influence that would satisfy a court. This is far too long to describe and I would merely summarise it […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] Net. He appears to believe that he can negotiate with MI6 in some fashion. But as Phillip Knightley says in the Belfast Telegraph piece, they’re the Secret Intelligence Service and they will pursue him to the ends of the earth: pour encourager les autres, if for no other reason. In a posting at Cryptome […]

Weapons of Mass Deception and Regime Unchanged

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] left to say. In the absence of evidence of the Iraqi regime’s ‘weapons of mass destruction’, to the distress of the professional diplomats and most of their intelligence services, the Bush-Blair ‘allies’ used dodgy information from defectors, selectively edited what other information they had, or simply made it up as part of the ‘perception […]

Smearing Wallace and Holroyd

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

[…] These included the Miami Showband killings of July 1975. Besides this forensic evidence Holroyd had knowledge of the history of these guns. He knew, through his own intelligence work, two of those involved in the massacre and that they were ‘used’ by a RUC Special Branch officer, who he has named. That officer Holroyd […]

Liddle and Lobbygate: reflections on a Downing Street drama

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] into the Atlanticist circuit Briefly told, Ramparts magazine disclosed that the work Martin and his colleagues had defended had, for many years, been funded by the Central Intelligence Agency.(8) The fuller story of how student politicians from the Cold War onwards eased into the state establishment – Draper being only the most recent example […]

Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] zealous control for the next twenty years’ — and never mentions it again. Mangold tries to explain Angleton’s enormous power wholly by his being head of Counter Intelligence. This is not convincing. Surely part of Angleton’s bureaucratic power came precisely from the “Israeli account’. The book is essentially an account of the disastrous effects […]

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