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... Illinois, has his campaign derailed by a sex scandal. With nowhere else to go Zajac stumbles into a real issue – housing foreclosures – and accidentally finds a way to revive his dying campaign. The Liberal Democrats, facing big losses at the next general election because of their association with the Conservative Party, are having a Zajac moment. Spooks, now and then C ryptome is the Website of John Young, who has been publishing information about states and especially their 10 <http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/06/vince-cable- tory-budget-taxes-lie> 11 <http://www. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 19 - 18 Oct 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... CBE, General Secretary of the AEU 1975-82, Lord (Harold) Collinson CBE, General Secretary of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers from 1953-69, and W. (Bill) Sirs, General Secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation from 1975-85.(140) The union leaders and the spooks The IRIS-Crozier-British Briefing set-up sums up much of what I have been trying to tease out. Three anti-socialist, senior trade union leaders fronted the clandestine production of an anti-socialist bulletin, written and edited by former intelligence officers, financed by British capital.(141) This anti-socialist ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 18 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/lobcc-08.htm
93. Sources [Lobster #42 (Winter 2001/2)]
... run by William Thomas who had an interesting piece on the subject in Nexus (October/ November 2001). Free Hagar extracts One of the most influential books of recent years has been Nicky Hagar's book on Echelon which triggered the on-going Echelon controversy. Extracts from it are at http://mediafilter.org/echelon/ Spooks down under Dr David Turner writes: the story of how the Australian security files were prised open (and what they reveal) is an interesting one. Below are some useful links on this. http://journalism.uts.edu.au/staff/spies.html - David McKnight, 'Australia's Spies and their Secrets ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 18 - 01 Dec 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue42/lob42-41.htm
... containing over 400,000 pages of sensitive and top-secret information about hundreds of thousands of Danish citizens, enabling the American authorities to reject "unsuitable" individuals applying for visas..... ' We may reasonably presume that Denmark was not the only state to do this.... Is Google in bed with the spooks?John Simkin runs a large Website on the Kennedy assassination <www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKindex.htm> In October he sent me an e-mail, of which this is an extract. During my research on the JFK assassination I received information that an anti-communist group called the Intercontinental Penetration ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 18 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-24.htm
95. Re: [Lobster #45 (Summer 2003)]
... from CIA activities in Afghanistan to anti-Americanism in the Arab world. 'History and September 11: a special issue' The Journal of American History, 89(2 ) (September 2002). Also available in full at < http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ jah/89.2 / >. Spooks Richard L. Russell, an academic based at the Near East-South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, the National Defense University, examines the strengths and weaknesses of American intelligence during the first Gulf War. As you would expect from someone who worked for the CIA (he was a political-military analyst specialising in Middle East and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-19.htm
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 8) June 1985 Last | Contents | Next Issue 8 Books Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA Jim Hougan (Random House, US 1984) Those who read Hougan's last book Spooks will know that the arrival or a new one is something of an event. As expected, his latest has so many trails to follow, intriguing little titbits to ponder that one read is insufficient to do justice to what I expect to be a major work. Having read it once - and then as if it was a political thriller (which it is) - I will be brief and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Jun 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue08/lob08-07.htm
... been filed in early May. As it happens, it was during that same month that Dan Mitrione was in Washington D.C ., being interviewed for a new job with a component of the State Department's Agency for International Development (AID), the International Cooperation Administration (ICA). An acknowledged cover for CIA officers and contract spooks such as Watergate's E. Howard Hunt and the JFK assassination's George de Mohrenschildt, the ICA would become infamous during the 1960s, funding the construction of so-called tiger-cages in Vietnam, and training foreign police forces in the theory and practice of torture. A few years earlier, in 1957, Mitrione had spent three months ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-01.htm
... the Guards to SOE in Baker Street and then, two weeks before Pearl Harbour, to British Security Coordination in New York where his intelligence career began in earnest. He worked on the South American desk under Bill Deakin, later the head of St. Antony's College, Oxford, a college which retained throughout the Cold War a reputation as spook-connected. Ayer remained close to Deakin throughout his life, as he did with many other intelligence personnel first met at this time. His main work with BSC involved researching and writing reports on the various left and right-wing groupings operating in South America. These reports would later provide the basis for the CIA's operations in South ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-02.htm
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 29) June 1995 Last | Contents | Next Issue 29 The View From The Bridge Blob of the month Hear the one about the supposedly spook-watching magazine whose editor mis-spelt the name of the head of MI5? Yep: Rimmington, I had in the last issue: Rimington it should have been. Searchlight News Their campaign against Larry O'Hara has reached new depths. In the March issue they published his picture and described where they think he works and lives. Is this not conspiracy to cause actual bodily harm (or worse) to O'Hara? Since Larry will ignore the threat, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Jun 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue29/lob29-06.htm
... , 2016, £19/$28, p/b The first striking thing about this book is that the author survived long enough to write it. Cockburn has spent nearly 20 years years, mostly in the Middle East, reporting in countries where one of the few things the warring parties agree on is that Western journalists are probably spooks, and are thus worth killing. This book (400 plus large, trade format pages) is constructed from Cockburn's original dispatches, plus notes and diary entries from the war zones as he followed the consequences of the American foreign policy in the Middle East and Afghanistan. The chapters follow the chronology: the imposition of sanctions on Iraq ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 10 May 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster71/lob71-chaos-caliphate.pdf