The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] five years and they did blog intermittently during that time52 but there has been no formal announcement saying, ‘Our conclusions are . . . .’. 49 Oliver Wright, ‘Johnson snubs captains of industry’, The Times 4 February 2020. 50 See . or I think that what they are quoting is something I wrote in […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] one of the results of its labours is a collection of essays, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference: Case Studies from the Athena Project (Terrorism) edited by David Wright. You might think the EU would want the information widely available, posted on a website somewhere, with free access. Au contraire. This was published in late […]

‘Nobody told us we could do this’

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] of Commons. It only remained that the document should – in some way – be ‘officially’ approved or accepted by Parliament. O’Donnell sent it to Dr Tony Wright MP, the chair of the House of Commons Public Administration Committee, who declined to consider it.10 It was then sent to Sir Alan Beith MP, chair […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] credibility chart as far as I am concerned. Huh? Among the government files from the 1980s which were released in late December, was one concerning the Peter Wright book Spycatcher. The Guardian reported that on one of these documents prime minister Thatcher wrote in October 1986: ‘I am utterly shattered by the revelations in […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] credibility chart as far as I am concerned. Huh? Among the government files from the 1980s which were released in late December, was one concerning the Peter Wright book Spycatcher. The Guardian reported that on one of these documents prime minister Thatcher wrote in October 1986: ‘I am utterly shattered by the revelations in […]

Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare T. J. Coles Didn’t it rain Declassified records show that from 1949 to 1955, the Royal Air Force (RAF) released various substances, including dry ice, silver iodide, and salt into the atmosphere at high altitudes in order to induce rain. ‘The clouds would then precipitate, pulled down […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Huh? Among the government files from the 1980s which were released in late December, was one concerning the Peter Wright book Spycatcher. The Guardian reported that on one of these documents prime minister Thatcher wrote in October 1986: ‘I am utterly shattered by the revelations in […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Huh? Among the government files from the 1980s which were released in late December, was one concerning the Peter Wright book Spycatcher. The Guardian reported that on one of these documents prime minister Thatcher wrote in October 1986: ‘I am utterly shattered by the revelations in […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] at least part of the time searching for the heavyweight figure who would lead Britain out of its ‘crisis’ (only to come up with Lord Mountbatten). Peter Wright claimed in Spycatcher that King was one of the MI5’s agents. Which means what? King had a controller, a case-officer? Or merely that King chatted to […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] the Soviet Union ran the 20 Details at . In Lobster 81 at or . 21 Precisely when they discovered this isn’t clear. In his Spycatcher, Peter Wright dates it to 1956 or 7, after the Soviet invasion of Hungary which led to a big fall in the CPGB’s membership. Professor Christopher Andrew, in […]

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