Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] Lobster on the professional and political activities of Guest More’s father,4 I wrote the foreword to Undercover Killers. Atkinson’s discovery of a devastating leak of raw police intelligence that dropped into the hands of professional criminals in Manchester has exposed the danger of Westminster government schemes that were pioneered by Margaret Thatcher – to […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] creates a striking effect, which is difficult to quite put a finger on. The macro/micro contrast between Oswald’s strange life, shuttling about at the behest of some intelligence agency or agencies – the provocateur in the subtitle being only one of his roles – within some of the hottest years of the Cold War […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
[PDF file]: […] continues even after al-Megrahi’s death. The book makes clear that al-Megrahi was a vulnerable figure. He, along with many other Libyans, was a US sanctions buster, had intelligence connections, two passports and did not tell his wife about his regular trips abroad, including those to Malta. But Ashton also puts that into political context […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] insider’s account of how the CIA spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan (New York: Presidio Press, 2007). 17 5 locals, asking that it be prioritised for intelligence purposes because ‘much more money was available for purely military purposes’. The author states he found it assuring to see the Afghani men going through the […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] lines later there is the following quotation. ‘Brutally summarised……Mrs Thatcher and Thatcherism grew out of a right-wing network in this country with extensive links to the military- intelligence establishment. Her rise to power was the climax of a long campaign by this network which included a protracted destabilisation campaign against the Labour and Liberal […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] had testimony from 36 victims. The US Attorney for South Florida at that time, Alexander Acosta, later claimed that he had been told that ‘Epstein “belonged to intelligence” and to leave it alone’. The incredible deal that Epstein’s legal team, including Dershowitz, negotiated involved him being on work release for twelve hours a day. […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
[PDF file]: […] West Africa. The ELF affair is written up in his previous book, Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil, which had large multinationals, the political and intelligence elites of leading nations, corrupt leaders of developing nations and slush funds administered offshore as ‘a great brothel where nobody knows who is doing what’. It […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] the Cold War gathered momentum. The Western allies began to work hard to loosen the Soviet grip on eastern Europe and to this end British and American intelligence now started to back the OUNUPA struggle against Moscow. They provided logistical support and more Mark Aarons and John Loftus, Ratlines: How the Vatican’s Nazi Networks […]