Cloak and Dollar, and, Know Your Enemy

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones London: Yale University Press, 2002, £22.50 Know Your Enemy: How the Joint Intelligence Committee Saw the World Percy Craddock London: John Murray, 2002, £25   Jeffreys-Jones is Professor of American History at Edinburgh University and writes on the American intelligence services. His book’s subtitle … Read more

Smearing Wallace and Holroyd

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

[…] September 1987. Letters to the Editor Sir, I realise that I must temper my language in reference to the recent article by David McKittrick, ‘Doubts over Ulster murder claims’ (Independent 2/9/87). Anger at such an appalling piece is not the way to respond to this totally biased reporting. A close look at the facts […]

The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] E. Moldea W.W. Norton, London and New York 1995 I didn’t notice this when it was first published and came across a remaindered copy. Unlike the JFK murder, this case is absolutely straightforward. The forensic evidence is quite clear and inarguable: Robert Kennedy was shot three times at point-blank range – i.e. a range […]

The Committee

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] Belfast journalist, Martin O’Hagan, who was publishing it in the Sunday World. Setting out to investigate allegations that the RUC was colluding with Protestant paramilitaries in the murder of Catholics, McPhilemy’s researcher on the programme made contact with O’Hagan who put him in touch with his source, Sands. Asked why he was telling the […]

Policing the Future

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] not descend upon the working class ghetto in order to find the person who had stolen Mrs. Smith’s wages (it was probably Mr. Smith anyway!). Apart from murder, the violence of which is always a serious threat to the State (15), the police only went into working class areas in search of those who […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] used its techniques against the radical left, take heart! The Evening Standard Diary 13 June 2001 reported that the diaries of Private Lee Clegg, convicted for the murder of two joy riders in Northern Ireland, and a minor cause célèbre for the right and the British Army, disappeared in the mail despite being sent […]

Agreement! The State, Conflict and Change in Northern Ireland

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] read or see about developments in Northern Ireland has been given a new perspective. It is one that shows conclusively that the British government colluded with the murder of lawyers sympathetic to the republican cause in that province. Their names may be familiar: Pat Finucane and Rosemary Nelson. The question revealed for us all […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] began running interference for MI5 at the Wapping gulag. I wrote to Mr Greenslade pointing out these earlier events but to date 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 […]

Web Update

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] Misc Pat Finucane Centre www.serve.com/pfc/index.html Pat Finucane, a human rights lawyer in N. Ireland, was murdered in 1989 by the UDA ‘One of those involved with his murder, Brian Nelson, was working for the Force Research Unit, an undercover unit of British Military Intelligence.’ Includes info on the Finucane case; the FRU and their […]

Irangate and Secret Arms-for-Hostage Deal

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] first discussed the same deals (San Francisco Chronicle, 1/6/87, from Washington Post Wire). Shortly before his death in July 1986 – which many believe to have been murder (Executive Intelligence Review, August 1, 1986, p. 47; Los Angeles Times, June 12/13, 1987) – Hashemi also offered to help the government gain release of the […]

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