Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] The Murrin campaign cost Oyston £9 million, lost in a single day on the Stock Exchange, £300,000 in Inland Revenue penalty payments, £10 million in a wrecked cable TV deal, the chairmanship of Trans World Communications plc and the almost unquantifiable cost of dealing with years of successive investigations by the following authorities: HM […]

The DFS, Silvia Duran and the CIA-Mafia connection

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] Oswald’ as the public one.(9) We find the same conversion or suppression of the name ‘Harvey Lee Oswald’, and its replacement by ‘Lee Harvey Oswald’, in a cable of November 29, 1963, from the FBI Legat in Bern, Switzerland,(10) and again in documents from the Secret Service.(11) So many scattered and unexplained references to […]

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Book Reviews

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Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

[…] is always better than no bread. Just how far we are from the American situation is beautifully if unwittingly demonstrated by James Cable’s review in International Affairs. Cable, actually Sir James Cable, ex Ambassador Cable, focuses on Verrier’s ‘startling assertion’ that Lord Normanbrook, Secretary to the Cabinet, “used SIS liaison with CIA as a […]

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The United States and the overthrow of Sukarno, 1965-67

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] the planning of the bloodbath. The impression created is that U.S. officials remained aloof from the actual planning of events; and we can see from recently declassified cable traffic how carefully the U.S. government fostered this image of detachment from what was happening in Indonesia. (83) In fact, however, the U.S. government was lying […]

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Feedback

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] Kate Sharpley Library as Kate Shipley Library over the page, the following sentence struck me: ‘A lifelong trade unionist, he fought Moseleys Blackshirts in the Battle of Cable Street and was involved in the Cairo Muutiny in the British Army in 1946.’ The ‘Muutiny’ (sic) bit makes you wonder, as does spelling ‘Mosley’ as […]

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‘A Most Extraordinary Case’

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] calls were not coming in, and now, with five advertisements in various local directories, two web-sites and three different phone numbers, (two land lines – BT and Cable London – and a mobile) and a buoyant economy Kennedy says he gets virtually no serious enquiries, (during the last month (April-May 2000) he reports only […]

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The limits of accountability

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] cabled the CIA (called ‘a foreign intelligence agency’ in the documents) and said that they were Islamic extremists and that they were flying to Gambia. A subsequent cable reminded the CIA of the first cable and gave the men’s flight details and said that they were associates of Abu Qatada, a radical Muslim cleric. […]

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British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] 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 D 7.5.70 UNI’S LONDON, HEIDELBERG MI6 (COL Z. FISHER/READ 1984) 1904-39 HELSINGFORS, HAMBURG, RIGA, STANLEYVILLE, STOCKHOLM, DANZIG, OREGON, SEATTLE, COPENHAGEN […]

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Cyberspace Wars: Microprocessing vs. Big Brother

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] and a few other computer millionaires, but is now underwritten by IBM, Apple, Microsoft, AT&T, MCI, Bell Atlantic, Adobe, the Newspaper Association of America, and the National Cable Television Association.(6) And the word ‘cyberspace’ is trumpeted in Scientific American, Time, Washington Post, and The New Republic. We can expect to see it soon in […]

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Telecommunications at the End of the World

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

Michael Ryan’s outburst at Hungerford in 1987 caused the Telephone Preference Scheme to be put into operation for the first known time in twelve years. (1) The system seems to have been less useful than might have been hoped. Other telephone voice communication systems, already in place but generally unavailable, could be used in a … Read more

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