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... a witness in Mr Nadir's trial but he died in around 1992. Gerald James is totally convinced that his death was not accidental. ' 3 Dennis Robertson's name has appeared before in these columns, in John Burnes' 'Joseph K and the spooky launderette' in Lobster 36.4 As Burnes commented recently: When I was blacklisted by the spooks and no college in the land would employ me, I ended up in Holland, actually applying for political asylum. I lived in Holland for three months in a refugee camp at OC Zeevolde. The core of my application process for asylum was an official interview conducted by the Dutch Ministry of Justice during which they confronted me with evidence ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 13 Aug 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-asil-nadir-conspiracy.pdf
... from the bridge – Robin Ramsay Page 103 Books reviewed Page 126 Shirley Williams, Climbing the Bookshelves Mark Hollingsworth and Stewart Lansley, Londongrad – From Russia with cash: The inside story of the oligarchs John Ralston Saul, The Collapse of Globalism Gordon Thomas, Inside British Intelligence: 100 years of MI5 and MI6 Thomas Hennessy and Claire Thomas, Spooks: The Unofficial History of MI5 Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5 Andy Beckett, When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies Francis Wheen, Strange Days Indeed David Chandler, Hollow Hegemony: Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance Solomon Hughes, War on Terror Inc.: Corporate Profiteering ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-001.pdf
... you can read it for yourself. Russell interprets his experience at the Guardian as a demonstration of the penetration of the media by the intelligence services. But as I wrote to his daughter, Amy, who nudged my elbow about this story: 'Your dad's piece, which he has already sent me, does not in fact show that the spooks have penetrated the Guardian. That might be true, of course. But his experience doesn't make this conclusion unavoidable. All manner of people traipse into the Guardian and show the journalists stories. I've done it. Few of those people get the outcome they desire. I certainly didn't. The difficulty is that there are all kinds of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-127.pdf
... to claims made by Mr Wilson, following his resignation, that MI5 contained a group of right-wing officers who were incapable of distinguishing between socialism and communism, and were plotting against the government. ' And how bizarre is MI5's view that the root cause of all the trouble in the UK was Watergate, the CIA and a few spook-spotters and critics of the police in London. Never mind the British labour movement, the Heath government's attack on the independence of trade unions and the roaring inflation caused by Heath's 'dash for growth', it was the likes of Tony Bunyan and Phil Kelly! This MI5 briefing, presumably, is the background to the notorious 'Gable ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-34.htm
... most of Fred Holroyd's allegations were made nearly 4 years ago in the New Statesman and on Channel 4's Diverse Reports. There is a major whispering campaign going on against Colin Wallace. One journalist working on the story has heard variations of the "Wallace as Walter Mitty" theme from 5 different sources, only one of them definitely a British spook. How far this campaign has penetrated the Palace of Westminster I just don't know. The major sub-theme in these whispers is about the Ulster Citizens' Army. This is what the British state seems to be relying on to finally discredit Wallace. And it is quite a clever smear, difficult to check out without effort and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Nov 1987 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue14/lob14-02.htm
... of unilateralism and economic protection, moved swiftly to undermine the plans and projections of the multilateralists. ' (p . 67) (11) JFK was trying the same thing as Jimmy Carter: reduce arms expenditure and have a less ruinous competition with the Soviet bloc. Kennedy got killed; and Carter got screwed electorally by an alliance of spooks, the military and their intellectual flunkies who recreated the 'Soviet threat' (Team B, the 'Soviet brigade' on Cuba, etc.). The author's analysis distinguishes him from others who see a neo-con cabal currently running things. He shows them merely fronting and generating rationales for the economic interests of the MIC. He ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-48.htm
... , and rather more from the recent biography of Jesse Helms, Hard Right, Ernest B. Ferguson (W . W. Norton, London and New York, 1986) . This current CAIB also includes more from the splendid Herman and Brodhead on disinformation surrounding the 'Bulgarian connection' and the best biographical essay I know of a super-spook, Frank Carlucci. CAIB - $5 (US) with $2 .50 (US) for foreign airmail, from PO Box 50272, Washington DC 20004. Last | Contents | Next ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Apr 1987 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue13/lob13-15.htm
... , the IRC was involved in establishing refugee camps across the border in Pakistan. According to Chester, while 'the Agency recruited, trained and armed paramilitary units for guerrilla warfare … the IRC provided health care and basic education for the residents of these very same camps. ' The overlap in personnel is also quite remarkable with a number of American spooks showing a hitherto unknown interest in charitable work. William Donovan, the man who set up the forerunner to the CIA, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), was heavily involved with the IRC, as was William Casey, who went on to become CIA director under Ronald Reagan. Of particular interest is John Whitehead, a ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 14 Jun 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster65/lob65-david-miliband.pdf
... With one foot in the 'alternative' or radical media (Mother Jones) and one in the major media, in this book Talbot has come close to bridging the gap between mainstream American political history and parapolitics.(4 ) Notes The Cuban exile community was routinely penetrated by Cuban intelligence, keeping an ear on what the exiles and the spooks were up to. This continues. Take the case of Anna Belen Montes, a Cuban who rose to be the Defense Intelligence Agency's top Cuban analyst, while working for Cuban intelligence from 1985 onwards. She actually wrote a 1998 Defence Department report which announced that Cuba posed no military threat beyond its borders. Montes spied for political beliefs ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-43.htm
... expand the runway on Easter Island to enable it to take the Space Shuttle in case of emergencies. Most commentators assumed the real reason was the US wished it to take military planes. Can the creation of a Southern Region Rapid Deployment Force be far off? NB Andrew Hurrell wrote the article cited above while studying for a PhD at the spooks college, St.Antony's, Oxford. SD Information wanted on the following There was a very small report in the Guardian (30 April 1983) that Britain was setting up a military base in Punta Arenas, Chile, near the border with southern Argentina. British troops, including Ghurkas, were said to be helping to train Chilean ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Sep 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue09/lob09-02.htm
