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... 9 Last| Contents| Next Issue 36 A War of Words: a Cold War Witness Christopher Mayhew I.B. Tauris, London, 1998, (hb) £25. Christopher Mayhew died recently thinking he set up the Information Research Department. As I have shown elsewhere, he was throughly manipulated by the Foreign Office- just like his boss at the time, Ernest Bevin, come to that. This short (142 pages) book contains 47 pages of Mayhew reminiscing about his involvement with IRD. His recollections were taped and edited by Lyn Smith, author in 1980 of one of the first big academic articles about IRD. One or two passages, for example on pp ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue36/lob36-14.htm
... seems to be another fragment of evidence in that direction. Waco wake-up I don't always agree with Alexander Cockburn, but this is right on the money: 'The ashes of the murdered Branch Davidians and their children-- all 74 of them- were still glowing as the nation's major news institutions rousingly endorsed the decision of Janet Reno and her boss, Bill Clinton, to give the FBI (and, as it turned out, the Delta Force) the go-ahead for an operation that ensured massacre. Newsweek, we particularly remember, rushed out its cover of Koresh swathed in flames like one of the damned in a mediaeval painting. It was one of the great failures of American ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue38/lob38-06.htm
... one time the data from social research was lodged and made available for independent assessment. So are we now to find social scientists searching the wreckage of New Labour for the black box containing the data Gould and Mattinson used to persuade Labour leaders and much of the media to accept the creation of New Labour? The spoils of war Mattinson's overall boss at Chime Communications, Lord Bell, was one of the beneficiaries of taxpayers' largesse through contracts issued by the Blair government for post-invasion work in Iraq. Bell's Bell-Pottinger – for a while home to No 10 press chief David Hill where he worked on the Monsanto account – received £3m, according to The Independent newspaper, for promoting ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue51/lob51-14.htm
... suggested the latter was an enormous threat to the survival of the former. The spirits lift, however, once one reads beyond the front cover. McIntosh is a former Whitehall official who served as director general of the National Economic Development Council (Neddy) from 1973 to 1977. This is a diary of those years. As befitted a boss of this quintessentially consensus-minded institution, McIntosh was a firm believer in getting the unions (and everyone else) round a piece of furniture that, during the crisis years of the 1970s, acquired semi-mystical status: 'the table'. Neddy was a key custodian of 'the table', acting as a place where all sides could meet on ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-36.htm
... struggling to resist his sexual identity in button-down, homophobic, white America. All of which means? Nothing, perhaps: at best we have more layers to the onion, central figures in the drama with lives already draped in concealment, to whom we might properly attribute another layer of deception. Gay gangster, gay businessman, gay FBI boss, gay anti- Castro activist and, perhaps, emerging gay patsy. As Dean Andrews might have said, 'How d'you like them apples?' Mr Liebeler. I am advised by the FBI that you told them that Lee Harvey Oswald came into your office some time during the summer of 1963. Would you tell us in your ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Nov 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue20/lob20-03.htm
36. The View [Lobster #44 (Winter 2002)]
... a former Special Branch officer described how, during the Heath regime, he had warned MI5 of the looming miners' strike but MI5 had not passed this on to the Prime Minister. Were MI5 already gunning for Heath at that point and trying to drop him in it? In the second there were some comments of the former British Leyland boss Michael Edwardes who described going to the Cabinet Office to read the minutes of meetings between 'the Communist Party and our[ Leyland's] shop stewards...It was absolutely clear- the intention was to break the company...bring the company down, bring the country down.' This didn't sound too plausible to me so ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-22.htm
... an insane act – such as resorting to the first use of nuclear weapons. At some point early in his presidency, Nixon began to conflate himself and the nation, and to consider the 'credibility' issue as personal, rather than related to matters of state. Kissinger played Nixon's confusion to his own political advantage. Believing, like his boss, in 'threat diplomacy', Kissinger encouraged the president to adopt increasingly drastic measures: 'Be prepared to take tough escalatory steps....(mining Haiphong, bombing Cambodia, etc.) .... to fail to do so would be to risk your credibility.’ (p. 118) Kissinger told Russian ambassador Dobrynin that ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 13 Jul 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-nixons-nuclear-specter.pdf
... is headed 'Truth Drugs' and runs to some eleven pages. Schmidt asserts that Britain's exploration of 'truth drugs' seems to have 'partly' come from the United States with a visit to the UK by Henry K. Beecher, a Harvard anaesthetist and former member of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services). Beecher was tasked by his bosses to gather information on drugs and narcotics and asses their potential as weapons. This assignment was part of Operation Artichoke2 set up by the CIA in 1951. Another of Beecher's objectives was to identify scientists who could be recruited for secret work back in the US. Schmidt then goes on to discuss LSD experiments with service personnel at Porton Down ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 08 Sep 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-secret-service.pdf
... adding an entity called 'the permanent government', which comprises 'the Cabinet Offices, the Armed Forces and Ministry of Defence, the nuclear industry and its satellite ministries' [sic], as well as MPs, 'particularly Tory MPs' and 'the network of very senior civil servants'. At appropriate points the City arid the South African service BOSS are added for good measure. The idea that all those in these broad categories, extended to include former members, were somehow engaged in blackening the faces of Wilson, Benn, Falkender& Co is very hard to take seriously. Confusion is confounded when, without explanation, a fufther hostile entity called 'the British state' is introduced ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue25/lob25-11.htm
... picture given by Peter Wright on p. 359 of Spycatcher, of the 1970s expansion of the counter-subversive F-branch at the expense of counter-espionage K branch. But there are lots of things missing. This is the list I compiled on first reading. Missing are: his failed Freedom Blue Cross venture; his role in James Goldsmith's Now!; BOSS; James Angleton and his fantasies; his role in the disinformation put out in the early 1980s that the KGB was running world terrorism; the Israeli connection; Crozier's financial funnel, the International Freedom Fund Establishment. The central chapters for me are those on Britain in the 1970s and 80s, the years when Crozier was engaged full-time in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Dec 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue26/lob26-11.htm
