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... , attracted 16 votes and damaged Heath, who lost to Thatcher by 119 to 130. Was Fraser a spoiling candidate put up to enable a Thatcher victory? ' Well, now...... It's a funny old world.... .. .when the Director of Public Prosecutions attacks 'the relentless pressure of a security state' and describes the government's response to the terrorism threat as 'mediaeval delusions'; (3 )and when the former head of MI5 describes the response to 9/11 as 'a huge overreaction'.(4 ) The minds of bankers Some years ago I was told the following story by someone who was present at some of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-26.htm
... transfers on political grounds, usually related to anxiety about the proliferation of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons. Fourth, willingness to supply defence goods is seen as the price of access to a wider, civilian market. Finally, there is no British arms export policy: decisions in this field are subordinated to considerations of commercial interest and national security, as well as to obligations arising from membership of international organizations such as COCOM. In criticism it has to be said that some part of this book are hard going (especially the chapter on 'Decision-making for British arms exports'). The author admits right at the start that the study began life as a Ph. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue32/lob32-12.htm
... 24 February, 1994 by Richard Norton-Taylor and Ian Katz. A number of people contacted me thinking that his death was suspicious -- something that has been disposed of, I believe, by the Katz and Norton-Tayor article. I never met Rusbridger but enjoyed his letters and shared his lack of regard for the intelligence and security services. His disparaging critics on the right, however, were almost certainly correct in claiming that he had few sources within the spook community. His The Intelligence Game (I .B .Tauris, 1991) was an amusing and witty read, but showed few signs of clandestine sources. Rusbridger would have been amused to learn that ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue27/lob27-05.htm
... (Issue 16) June 1988 Last | Contents | Next Issue 16 Wallace Clippings planted on Chapman Pincher Just for the historical record, these rather faded cuttings from the Daily Express are just two of the stories that Wallace planted on Chapman Pincher while working in Information Policy. By Chapman Pincher the man who gives you tomorrow's news -today THE SECURITY forces in Northern Ireland are facing a serious threat from American ex-Vietnam soldiers being recruited to fight with the I.R .A . as paid gunmen and saboteurs. Until now the few Americans involved have served mainly as instructors and they have tended to remain in Eire. But British Intelligence now has wind of a big recruiting ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue16/lob16-04.htm
... Eden at al to US instructions backed with threats to cause financial chaos to the Sterling area to stop the fighting is not recorded. Yet surely this is the essential prism through which to view this debacle? One is struck when reading this episode that the UK political leadership could clearly have continued the fighting in Egypt for long enough to have secured complete control of the Suez Canal (another 24, maybe 36 hours) and then have told the US that they would run it in future in a manner similar to the way the US operated the Panama Canal, the jurisdiction and operation of which was not, apparently, open for debate within the broader international community. US threats ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue46/lob46-30.htm
... 100 years: the SB was set up without political control. Working his way through such original material as there is, Porter has opened up a number of interesting subsidiary trails. One is his discovery that 'Nigel West's' book on the Special Branch is junk. In a paper in Vol.1 No.3 of Intelligence and National Security (see journals in this issue) Porter describes 'West's' book as "the most unreliable history book ever written by anyone who has not deliberately set out to deceive." (Would we share Porter's assumption that 'West's' deception was mere incompetence?) The other interesting area that is being forced on Porter is what might be called ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Feb 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue15/lob15-09.htm
... was the colour) to deal with the contingency of trouble between themselves and the Americans. That was scrapped at the end of the decade and anyway (like the American documents) existed on paper only. By 1933 the UK Chiefs of Staff had isolated Germany, Japan and Italy as the most dangerous threats to British national and to Imperial security. General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley suggested that the scenario was absurd and must have been drawn up in an attempt to extract funds from the US Government. He may have a point - the US military in the 1930s was small and under-equipped, a threat to no-one except the neighbouring Latin American states. Only ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue38/lob38-02.htm
... driving-force of party thinking, contributing substant-ially, though not always overtly, to the new sense of unity and purpose throughout the Labour Movement' (p . 91);'...the European issue became a central, though not always explicit, element of party strategy geared to seeking a clear primary objective: securing political office. ' (p . 194) It's there at the centre but it just isn't visible. He tells us: 'What has emerged......is a policy approach driven by more than electoralism. The evidence points to an accompanying sense of conviction based on the realisation of the value and inevitability of increasing ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-39.htm
... it was dedicated to forming alliances between the American and European Non-Communist Left in defence of cultural-intellectual values, and as ideological support for the Marshall Plan and the Atlantic alliance. The time was right, in other words, for such an institution to succeed. 'By the 1960s, the CCF was an overextended institution attempting to secure a worldwide network of liberal-minded intellectuals in a period when American power was being harshly demonstrated in Vietnam, and the legacy of western colonialism made it a hopeless task. The CCF could no longer fulfil its hegemonic function in the changed historical circumstances. ' I am not qualified to assess Scott-Smith's debt to Gramsci or evaluate ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue43/lob43-40.htm
... covers the period from 1967 to 1975 and centres on the Angry Brigade events. Thanks to the publicity surrounding Christie's trial and imprisonment in Franco's Spain for smuggling explosives to an anarchist group (unfortunately penetrated by Franco's agents), upon his return to the UK in 1967, not surprisingly, he became a major focus of attention for the British security services, especially Special Branch. (How many explosive-toting anarchists did they have in the UK at the time?) There is much on Christie's encounters with the boys in blue, all of whom, with one exception, an SB officer called Cremer, are portrayed as idiots. Christie's harassment by SB only got worse when ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-45.htm
