The Labour Finance and Industry Group: a memoir

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] of social and political changes that they have neither understood nor wanted to understand. It has a web site at . As you read this, bear in mind that this is a historical memoir of a particular period in time, from around 1991 to around 1998 at the latest. The LFIG should not be […]

The corporate ex-spook business

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] security companies, give or take a few ex-KGB bods, are all Anglo-Saxon, with personnel institutionalised by specific national agendas, including the commercial. This not only conditions a mind set, which includes belief in racial and other dominance, but leaves them unable to cope in a market-place where: a) the ‘prestige’ (for want of another […]

The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and their Influence on Nazi Ideology

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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

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 […]

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

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 […]

Web Update

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

On reaching 50 Reaching 50 issues is something. More or less than I hoped? Obviously, it never occurred to me twenty plus years ago that I would still be doing this now. But I never had any hopes beyond simply selling enough copies to keep producing it (and maybe, one day, producing an issue which […]

Northern Ireland Act 1974

Lobster Issue 14 (1987)

[…] more to boost support for those pursuing a violent solution for Northern Ireland than anything that they could have done themselves. There is no doubt in my mind that the Royal Ulster Constabulary had a shoot-to-kill policy. That has been successfully covered up, but it came close to exposure when Mr. John Stalker was […]

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 […]

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