Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
A secret service? In the Guardian of 12 June 2000 David Leigh had an important piece on the relationship between our secret servants and the media. At the core of this was his account of the revelation, via a libel suit in London, of an MI6 operation to plant disinformation in the Sunday Telegraph about … Read more
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
The state in politics: Wallace, Holroyd and Lobster Colin Wallace’s 1980 conviction for the manslaughter of Jonathan Lewis was quashed on 9 October 1996. Considering the size of the political iceberg beneath that little tip, with the notable exceptions of the Guardian and Channel Four News, the response of the media on mainland UK was … Read more
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] Rothschild and Korda (see below). Legg, too, became a Wilson-hater, denying publicly his own communist past, writing a short book espousing geopolitical views derived from Haushofer, the Nazi political theorist. Two younger Labour figures moved into the area and joined this group: Giles Radice, who later helped arrange Tony Blair’s parliamentary seat in 1983, […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] out of Belfast in 1989 and the UVF did likewise with Combat 18 in 1993. That said, Johnnie Adair was a member of the National Front and Nazi rock band, Offensive Weapons, before ever he joined the UDA in 1989; and McDonald and Cusack add that Rathcoole UDA commander John Gregg was an admirer […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
Here is a selection of sites on the Internet that may interest Lobsterreaders. The usenet newsgroups are for discussion of issues and anyone can contribute; some of the contributions are pretty far-out, or just plain abusive, and much of the material is US-oriented. The content of newsgroups is continually changing, and the examples I have … Read more
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] the nation’s highest office.’ Factbook on Intelligence http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/facttell/index.html Updated version of the CIA Factbook on Intelligence, a history and guide to the CIA. German Propaganda Archive http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ Nazi and East German propaganda, translated. ‘Includes both propaganda itself and material produced for the guidance of propagandists. The goal is to help people understand the two […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] payments system in which sterling would be the leading reserve currency.’ And thus, ‘The policy of appeasement followed naturally from the politico-economic priorities of inter-war British governments. Nazi Germany, with a foreign economic policy based on exchange controls and on barter agreements, was constructing an increasingly autarkic system of trade and payments in central […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] Raikes’ IPG colleague, the Earl of Mansfield.(9) In 1950 the Scottish League for European Freedom sponsored a conference in Edinburgh of Eastern European exiles, many of them Nazi collaborators and war criminals, who had been recruited by British intelligence and moved to the U.K. during the scramble at the end of WW2 by the […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
The Kennedys: The Conspiracy to Destroy a Dynasty Matthew Smith Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, h/b, £16.99, 2005 State Secrets: The Kent-Wolkoff Affair Bryan Clough Hove: Hideaway Publications, 2005, £15 (US $27.50) Matthew Smith has written several books covering the tribulations of the Kennedy family and is described on the book jacket as a screenwriter and […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] said the internet saved his life. Protest groups and activists The report discusses the use of the internet by international protest groups and activists, e.g. by neo- nazi groups in Germany and the Zapatistas in Mexico. It claims that the largest and most active political groups using it appear to be the San Fransisco-based […]