Two Sides of Ireland (Book reviews)

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] and E4A covert surveillance team, and Loyalists on orders from the SMIU were able to launch a series of cross-border incursions which, according to Holroyd, involved one murder, two attempted kidnaps and several undercover surveillance missions. One of these operations, in March 1974, is the beginning of the Stalker saga – an attempt by […]

No smoke without fire?

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] photographic evidence. In such circumstances it becomes difficult to tell the difference between a safe and an unsafe conviction. This approach would not be allowed in a murder or robbery trial, for instance. More importantly it would not be followed in instances where a child is kidnapped and murdered (Soham), or tortured and neglected […]

‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

‘You don’t investigate people for why they think but for what they do.’ – former Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti (1) Introduction If nothing else, the Iran-Contra scandal temporarily illuminated the extent to which ostensibly private organizations have been helping secretive elements within the American government — in this case the core of the executive branch’s … Read more

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] a unique take on the ‘whodunnit’ aspect of the assassination, a synthesis of the left and right wing conspiracy theories: Oswald was involved in the conspiracy to murder the President; and he was an FBI informant and a CIA or Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) agent; but he was also working for the communists […]

The Andropov Deception

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] member of the coterie now gathered around the bloody foreign policies of America’s resurgent right-wing. All of them, like Crozier, are apologists, directly or indirectly, for mass murder in the name of “freedom” and “democracy” in places like Chile, El Salvador and Guatemala. It is, of course, possible that Crozier is a wonderful chap, […]

Anglo-America and the Third Reich

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

Conjuring Hitler: How the Western Elite Incubated Nazism – 1900-38 Guido Preparata US: University of Michigan Press, 2005; h/b, $90.00; p/b $28.95 UK: Pluto Press, 2005; h/b £60.00; p/b £17.99   I would like to introduce a recently published book that has been overlooked. Guido Preparata’s Conjuring Hitler: How the Western Elite Incubated Nazism-1900-38 reinterprets … Read more

British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2 Steve Dorril See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Spooks (Lobster 22) CABLE, ERIC GRANT CMG (1938) B 25.2.1887 … Read more

Where’s Ware?

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] Mail and Daily Mirror – including the ‘Walter Mitty’ theme). The ‘line’ has been changed. At Wallace’s trial, in the effort to get him convicted of the murder of Jonathan Lewis via a ‘karate blow’ to the base of his nose, Wallace was portrayed as a dangerous killer/macho man. I believe that in 1987 […]

American PR and Iraq

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

Mel Gibson’s movie Throughout the ages, the Vatican’s iconic depiction of the Crucifixion has been an example of one of PR’s most effective ‘tactics’: the freeze-framing and subsequent promotion of a single event, to dictate perception, itself a marketing tactic. (The same ‘mind control’ is apparent in marketing today, when, say, a ‘life-style’ freeze-frame is … Read more

Shorts: James Rusbridger. Illuminati. Gordievsky. Cavendish

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] of clandestine sources. Rusbridger would have been amused to learn that since his death he has been reported to have been writing books on the Hilda Murrell murder (private correspondence), autoerotic techniques (Independent , 18 February), the Lusitania (Independent , 18 February) and the production of chemical weapons at Nancekuke in Cornwall (The West […]

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