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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

Korean war biological warfare? Issue 11 of the Bulletin of Cold War International History Project contained what appears to be evidence that the allegations by North Korea and the Chinese that the US were using biological warfare during the Korean War were false – were in fact disinformation. Documents apparently from former Soviet archives seem … Read more

ELF: from Mind Control to Mind Wars

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] were so clear-cut. One of the things that some of the Greenham Common women reported was ‘voices in the head’; and I have a 1976 US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report, ‘Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation’ which notes (p. 2): ‘The potential for the development of a number of antipersonnel applications is suggested by […]

New Labour, New Atlanticism: US and Tory intervention in the unions since the 1970s

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] that he ‘has been a long standing member of the Trade Union Committee for European and Transatlantic Understanding’. Conclusion These are just some of the right-wing and intelligence efforts to suborn the trade union and Labour Party Right in recent decades. So, should anyone take notice of any of the above? Radical trade unionists […]

Feedback

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] experimental than strategic, but it was definitely offensive rather than defensive, and was part of an ongoing development program within the bowels of the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence establishments. Re: the comments in Lobster 45 p. 24, subhead ‘Monkey business?’, the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie Foundations poured millions into women’s studies, black studies, and […]

Ribbontrop Blair

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi […]

There’s no smear like an old smear

Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

[…] who will be sent to work as Resident Operators and Control Agents in foreign countries will amount to about 230.’ Considerate of them to tell the counter- intelligence services of the NATO alliance, is it not? A decade later we find the same theme in J. Bernard Hutton’s 1972 The Subverters of Liberty (p. […]

A War of Words: a Cold War Witness

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] Sir) Roger Hollis, and Norman Reddaway representing the IRD. At the end of it, Brook instructed Hollis to make available to the Foreign Office, with security collateral, intelligence about communist malpractices in the unions that could be used by IRD. This led, among other things, to the ousting of Foulkes and Haxell from the […]

Eye Spy!

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] Lander, Director-General of MI5. Our fearless journalist reports that ‘Sir Steven had clearly been shaken by cruel and untimely remarks made by Tom King, chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee.’ Poor baby! How fortunate that EYE SPY! was there to sympathise. Unnamed fearless reporter continues: ‘The Director-General should never have been put in […]

The Labour Party

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] to them; on other issues that clearly bore on the question of war, like decolonisation, Europe, and the economy; on possible extraneous influences, like business and the intelligence community; on strands of Labour opinion outside the parliamentary party – trade unions, Fabians, pressure groups, and at constituency level; and a little further back in […]

Silent Coup: the Removal of Richard Nixon

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Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] the low-level functionary portrayed in his famous televised confession. Before becoming a journalist, Bob Woodward, of Woodward and Bernstein, had been a U.S. Navy ‘briefer’ with considerable intelligence connections, among them Alexander Haig. ‘Deep Throat’ was a device to conceal the fact that Haig was leaking to Woodward. (Or: Haig was ‘Deep Throat’.)’ One […]

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