The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] they are doing anything wrong or unusual. G2, 27 March, 2007. Did anyone in that press office know that the theme of the book is the meaningless murder of an Arab? Four of them were reviewed in The New York Review of Books 1 March 2007. The National Institute of Standards and Technology issued […]

SAS

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] men to ‘kill on sight’. The squad is known as Echo Four Alpha (or E4A), sometimes working within special support units. Constable John Robinson, acquitted of the murder of Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) member Seamus Grew was a member of an 11-strong special support unit, operating from Police Headquarters in Knock. In fact […]

The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

Robert Caro New York and London: Alfred Knopf, 2002, hb $35 (US) £35 (UK) (But in the UK only £22 from Amazon.com)   This is the third volume in Caro’s biography of LBJ. The first two volumes are wonderful pieces of work, the best biographies I have read; and in many ways this is their … Read more

The Myth of the SAS

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

Since the storming of the Iranian Embassy in London on 5 May 1980, the Special Air Service (SAS) has become a cultural phenomenon as much as a military one; has become, in the words of its former Director, Peter de la Billiere, ‘a living embodiment of the individualism of the British’. Their heroic exploits have […]

Inside ‘Inside Intelligence’

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

[…] account, was “so British as to belong to a past backed by an Empire that ruled the waves,” a world where “theft, deception, lies, mutilation and even murder are possibilities.” (p13) Cavendish and Young were to work together from 1973 in Unison, the co-ordinating committee which was to play its part in the anti-Wilson […]

The Enemy Within: Thatcher’s Secret War Against the Miners; GB84

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Miners Seumas Milne London: Verso, 2004, p/back, £8 GB84 David Peace London: Faber & Faber, 2004, p/back, £12.99   On the 20th anniversary of the most significant power struggle in post war Britain, two very different books on the miners’ strike of 1984-85, read alongside each other, … Read more

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[PDF file]: […] publisher on the eve of its appearance. I am grateful to Lobster for reviving “Transnationalised Repression”. Though the essay starts from events of the seventies (Watergate, the murder of Orlando Letelier in Washington, the Nixon war on drugs) which have since passed into history, the essay also builds to a general overview of transnationalised […]

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] as a copycat crime, carried out by unconnected criminals. It took nearly four months for the LAPD to arrest and indict Manson and co. for the two murder sprees. O’Neill sets out to prove that the powers-that-be of the LAPD knew early on that Manson and the Family were the murderers; which leads to […]

GArrick part one trial

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[…] He eventually died in 2020 from renal failure. 34 Biletsky had been released from prison the previous month, having been convicted in 2013 of involvement in a murder committed in 2011. His premature release was the result of a national amnesty for political prisoners. 35 14 ‘sounds somewhat absurd’, and remarked dismissively that ‘love […]

lob81-british-gladio2

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The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed Robin Ramsay Please note: the longer documents referred to in the footnotes below, can be found in a separate file in the Appendices here. Introduction During the (first) Cold War, NATO countries set up secret ‘stay behind’ networks with caches of arms, ammunition and food/drink […]

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