Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] Peter Blaker discuss newly-appointed Minister Robert Atkins Blaker You know that Robert’s in the government now? Murrin Yes, I did. Yes. Blaker Which is good for him. Mind, he deserves to be. Done a great job. …. I think we should keep Robert in on this, by the way. Murrin Oh everything that you’ve […]

Updating and Ongoing

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] ‘Application of Extremely Low Frequency Electromagentic Fields to Non-Lethal Weapons’. Anybody who has wondered why I have been running — however incompetently — the material on ELF, mind control etc. since Lobster 19, please note. This stuff is for real: potentially this is the biggest military technology development since the hydrogen bomb. Spooks bending […]

A Note on MRA, CIA and L. Ron. Hubbard

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

A Note on MRA, CIA and L. Ron. Hubbard In response to my snippet in issue 38 (p.22) on Moral Rearmament and the CIA, Daniel Brandt (1) sent me the following from Miles Copeland’s, The Game Player: Confessions of the CIA’s Original Political Operative (London: Aurum Press, 1989, pp. 176-177). This is a nice demonstration … Read more

Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust, and, US Intelligence and the Nazis

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] had to be rethought. Inevitably, which contributions seem most important in a collection such as this reflects the interests and concerns of the reviewer. Bearing this in mind, of particular interest in this are Piotr Wrobel’s ‘An NKVD Residentura (Residency) in the Warsaw Ghetto’, Hilary Earl’s ‘Confessions of Wrongdoing, or How to Save Yourself […]

Bank-havens: Exposures Of The Rich

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

As a recent TV programme (James Bellini’s ‘The Polite Conspiracy’ 4th April 1984 BBC2) made clear, the rich have devised some artful ways of avoiding tax. Of course they also have a government committed to drastically reducing their tax ‘burden’ (e.g. Nigel Lawson’s abolition of investment income surcharge, formerly payable on high unearned incomes). Naturally, … Read more

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] have received no reply. The murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher Joe Vialls’ exploration of this murder – which he thinks he committed, while under some kind of mind control – has taken a significant lurch forward. In the Australian magazine New Dawn number 27 (GPO Box 3126FF, Melbourne, 3001), Vialls has a long analysis […]

Searchlight again

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] apparent when he insisted on trying to foist an unusable programme idea on colleagues of Gerry in television. A free lunch always at the forefront of his mind, Riley went off, leaving his unlocked briefcase in their office. Gerry promptly opened it and copied Riley’s rather uninteresting address book.(7) Watch this space. O’Hara cannot […]

Hacks, pols and PR

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

The Triumph of the Political Class Peter Oborne London: Simon & Schuster, 2007, £18.99 Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy Edited by William Dinan and David Miller London: Pluto, 2007, £15.99 End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair CounterPunch and AK Press, Oakland … Read more

Re:

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

Who was who? The newly published Oxford Dictionary of National Biography not only surveys the lives of the great and the good, but also includes accounts of individuals in the murkier fields of human endeavour. Over fifty spies are listed, for example, including historical figures such as ‘Parliament Joan’ (c1600-1655?) and ‘Pickle the Spy’ (c1725-1761). … Read more

The Pinay Circle and Destabilisation in Europe

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] with the resistance in Scandinavia. Reflecting on the Pinay Circle and its apparent role as European coordinator of media manipulation, several other avenues for investigation come to mind. The UK: the role of Arthur ‘Dickie’ Franks. Before the publication of the Langemann papers in 1982, Franks’ only known connection to the Wilson story was […]

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