Two views of Dorril: MI6: Fifty years of Special Operations

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] not only on the Labour Movement and his former allies, but in the words of his former wife Margaret, has sold his soul to the devil. Never mind, that ghastly conservative creep Blair tells us we should be proud of our MI6 boys and girls for they give us a cutting edge over the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] appeared this year on the CBS News website(2) and in The Times.(3) Has the Bilderberg meeting stopped asking for media silence? That would be my guess. Never mind that the CBS story inevitably framed the subject matter – Bilderbergers in the Obama administration – as the ‘crazy’ concerns of ‘conspiracy theorists’,(4) this is a […]

Kitson revisited

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

The publication of Frank Kitson’s Low Intensity Operations in 1971 created a storm on the left.(1) An influential British army officer with considerable experience of colonial warfare was advocating that the army prepare for counterinsurgency operations at home. As far as Kitson was concerned there was a serious danger of revolutionary disturbance in Britain in … Read more

The death of Diana: an update

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] the publication of Trevor Rees-Jones’ book; James Hewitt’s impromptu recreation of the fatal car journey; Mohamed Al Fayed accusing the Duke of Edinburgh of being the master mind behind a plot to murder Diana and Dodi; and the possibility of inquests on Diana and Dodi taking place. A correction A significant correction to the […]

Another Searchlight smear job

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] on the story and journalist Paul Brown drove to Glastonbury to listen to David Icke. After a three-week wait, an article, ‘Ex-nutter rails at New World Order mind benders’ (9 May), finally appeared; but only after author Paul Brown had had a ‘tremendous row’ over the continual delays. Despite the research done by the […]

PR, espionage and language

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] what the British government was doing about the problem. The Hansards automatically went world-wide to the relevant ministers in their governments. As a result, and keeping in mind this is a false example, senior health professionals overseas, supported by the relevant minister, would be in a position to go to their governments pointing out […]

Feedback

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] acclaim. To be fair, this was not the book’s subject, anyway. But reference to Lancaster, which I attended as a mature student from 1969-72, put me in mind of the rumours one heard about the politics department there, the postgrad. students who went off for wargaming at Aberystwyth, and the controversy aroused by proposals […]

Ribbontrop Blair

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] the motive was regime change; what happened behind the scenes over the second security council resolution; and the still unexplained reason for Lord Goldsmith’s quick change of mind culminating in his advice that starting the war was legal even without UN backing.’ Berlins speculated: ‘Even more shocking, if true, is the allegation that, many […]

Euro-bound? Or: the same river twice

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

I met Paul Routledge, the biographer of Gordon Brown, a couple of years ago. ‘Does Brown understand economics?’ I asked him. ‘Well, he reads lots of big books,’ said Routledge. ‘This is not the same thing.’ Of course I asked the wrong question. What I should have asked was: does Gordon Brown understand British economic … Read more

PERMINDEX: The International Trade in Disinformation

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 […]

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