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... Classified Secrecy and the state in modern Britain Christopher Moran Cambridge University Press, 2012, £22.00, hardback M ost of this is a decently written and entertaining account of the British state's attempts to enforce its everything official is secret' legislation – run through the House of Commons before WW1 during a panic about German espionage – and its subsequent modifications. Before WW2, in practice the state was willing to clobber little people – e.g . the novelist Compton MacKenzie who revealed a handful of secrets about MI6 in a book in the 1930s – but unwilling to do anything when prime minister Lloyd George took van loads of official (and thus secret) papers home ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 95 - 26 Feb 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster65/lob65-classified.pdf
... but who in fact was to use Thatcher's phrase "one of us" .. .. .MI5 terminated Blair in the late 1980s when it was downgrading its study of subversion and Blair was rising to the higher ranks of the Labour Party. ' The spook-wise We've got another MP who takes a serious interest in the British secret state. In the past we have had MPs who had been secret servants (mostly Conservative) and a few Labour MPs who took a temporary interest. Almost twenty years ago Ken Livingstone took a sustained interest until the researcher who was generating the questions he was asking in the House of Commons joined the BBC. Now we have Norman ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 95 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-24.htm
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 37) Sumer 1999 Last | Contents | Next Issue 37 Britain's Secret Propaganda War Paul Lashmar and James Oliver Sutton Publishing, Stroud (UK) 25.00 hb This is a really interesting and important book - perhaps the most important book about the British secret state since Fitzgerald and Bloch's British Intelligence and Covert Action in the early 1980s. The incremental uncovering of the Information Research Department (IRD) story has been one of the continuing threads of British parapolitics since Richard Fletcher's pioneering work on it in the mid 1970s; and for several years now a synthesis of all the extant material on IRD has ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 95 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-13.htm
... The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed Robin Ramsay Please note: the longer documents referred to below in the footnotes are in the Appendices folder here. Introduction During the (first) Cold War, NATO countries set up secret stay behind' networks with caches of arms, ammunition and food/drink etc. in preparation for the day when they were invaded by the Red Army. In the 1970s and 80s elements of these networks were used against the left in Western Europe, notably in Belgium and Italy. In my review of the first book on this I wrote: An organisation set up by NATO to act as "stay behind" groups in the event ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 95 - 29 Jan 2021 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster81/lob81-british-gladio.pdf
... 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 etc. in preparation for the day when they were invaded by the Red Army. In the 1970s and 80s elements of these networks were used against the left in Western Europe, notably in Belgium and Italy. In my review of the first book on this I wrote: An organisation set up by NATO to act as "stay ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 95 - 22 Jan 2021 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster81/lob81-british-gladio2.pdf
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 40) Winter 2000/1 Last | Contents | Next Issue 40 Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs 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 the son of Colonel Gaddafi. (1 ) The story was written by Con Coughlin and attributed to a British banking official'. As the trial revealed, said official came from MI6 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 94 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-03.htm
... just to read it. At this point a little bell may be ringing in your ears. For this is precisely the technique used by Colin Wallace in the British Army's psy-ops unit in Belfast in the 1970s. Wallace would take journalists, especially foreign journalists whose knowledge of British politics was limited, into back room and show them secret documents' - some genuine, some forgeries - which they could read but not copy, in the hope that the more naive of them would publish what they had been shown. Alas, that warning bell seems not have rung for Howe and she lapped it all up. I'm not an expert on the long, intricate history of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 93 - 01 Jun 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue35/lob35-06.htm
... Her Majesty's secret servants Robin Ramsay SIS and Libya H enry Kissinger is widely quoted as having once said that America has no friends, only interests'; and when push comes to shove this is true for all states. This island has been called something like perfidious Albion' for almost a thousand years.1 Neither proposition has ever been better illustrated than by this country's foreign policy towards Libya in the past 20 years or so. Former MI5 officer David Shayler reported that in 1996 MI6 had paid £100,000 to a Libyan Islamist group for the assassination of Colonel Gadaffi; and, although denied by the British formal foreign policy apparatus, a great deal of evidence ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 92 - 13 Nov 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster62/lob62-secret-servants.pdf
... of the Rothschild- controlled neocon cabal were Richard Perle (Rothschild Zionist), Paul Wolfowitz (Rothschild Zionist), Dov Zakheim (Rothschild Zionist), Douglas Feith (Rothschild Zionist), John Bolton (Rothschild Zionist), Lewis Libby (Rothschild Zionist), the list goes on and on. ' 1 7 Were the Rothschilds the secret master plotters behind the invasion of Iraq? Given that Icke, Makow and Hagger offer no evidence, we could simply dismiss their claims. Instead, taking them more seriously than they would otherwise deserve, let us see wh at, if any connections there are between the Rothschilds and the invasion of Iraq. The Power of the Rothschilds ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 91 - 04 Feb 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-rothschild.pdf
... papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford; papers of the Spanish Foreign Ministry archives, Madrid; documents released by the FBI under the Freedom of Information Acts. Published: Documenti Diplomatici Italiani (DDI) Documents on German Foreign Policy (DGFP) Nicholas Bethell, The War Hitler Won (1972) Anthony Cave Brown, "C ": The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Menzies (1988) Richard Cockett, Twilight of Truth (1989) John Costello, Ten Days that Saved the West (1991) Richard Griffiths, Fellow Travellers of the Right (1980,1983) Simon Haxey, Tory M.P . (1939) David Irving, Goering (1989) R. Lamb ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 90 - 01 Nov 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue22/lob22-03.htm
