Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
‘Rug merchants’ was the epithet former White House Chief of Staff Don Regan used to describe the Iranians who negotiated secret arms deals for nearly a year with senior officials of the Reagan Administration, including Oliver North of the National Security Council. Regan’s dismissive characterization hardly did justice to the sales skills of North’s Mideast […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] talk to the far right but when he does so he is an ‘errand boy’. ‘One of Searchlight’s regular themes is to associate me in the public mind with former NF Directorate member and current Third Way activist Patrick Harrington, whom I have interviewed (along with others) for my research….. Patrick Harrington’s stated position […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] the British intelligence and security services – far more interesting and surprising to me than the details of operations given here. The expression mind-boggling idiocy comes to mind. And this nonsense had the same consequences in SIS as it has elsewhere in the public sector: faced with career-breaking targets and quotas, people fake them […]
Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
[…] media had been turned off Garrison by the increasingly wilder theories, but it did help plant the idea of CIA involvement in the assassination in the public mind. That could be a mixed blessing – perhaps another part of the cover-up for other intelligence agencies (such as Military Intelligence) which may have played an […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] suggested that I take a “target” for a ride in my private aeroplane and drop him out over the North Sea. There was no doubt in my mind that this was a request to act as an assassin. Had I agreed to perform any of the many illegal acts requested I would have found […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] to tell the Chiefs of Staff in early 1948 that ‘there was no one to fight’, but eventually capitulated after pressure from Ernest Bevin, who changed his mind and accepted the line coming out of the Foreign Office,(16) and a resignation threat from the Chiefs of the Imperial General Staff.(17) The same issue can […]
Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
[…] of Towers’ friends, one of whom tried to have sex with her in Paris. Towers, over the next year, made no sexual advances towards Maria but didn’t mind pushing his friends on her. She signed to Towers’ modelling agency and he gave her a large deposit. The day she left for New York Stephen […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] capability or it had some advance inkling of what was about to happen. Two sleepless British government ministers next morning clearly did not. You make your own mind up. Washington’s objective What was more important was the message. The subtext of coverage from the US was that Europeans should be more aggressive about their […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke I.B.Tauris, London, 1992, £9.95. In his last paragraph the author concludes: ‘Books written about Nazi occultism between 1960 and 1975 were typically sensational and under-researched. A complete ignorance of the primary sources was common to most authors and inaccuracies and wild claims were repeated by each newcomer to the genre until an abundant … Read more
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] Cold War Legacy http://www.webcom.com/~pinknoiz/coldwar/index.html Extract from Interim Report of the Advisory C’tee on Human Radiation Experiments; plutonium expts; gas warfare tests on armed forces personnel; Microwaves and Mind Control – Bank Frauds and Covert Operations. Intelligence Internet Uplink http://ionet.net/%7Eeverett/intel.html Links to intelligence-related websites. eg Sources e-journal (www.dso.com/cgi-bin/webc/home.html) ‘Intelligence ejournal delivers in-depth intelligence on issues […]
