In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] London police sergeant in the 1850s who brought a couple to trial for an ‘indecent offence’ in a park, but was then demoted to constable for having hidden behind a tree to observe it. Now we accept surveillance cameras in every street, Google’s satellite mapping, the use of ATM and shop receipts to track […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop Garrick Alder Abstract As the title suggests, this essay exposes a psychological operation that began in 1963, the effects of which are still in play more than fifty years later. The present work is in three sections. The first section is a parapolitical portrait of the prominent American conservative Clare Boothe Luce, […]

GArrick Timmi text

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[…] Stasi brutality, attempting to discredit the tour guides by deliberately starting arguments with them in front of their impressionable charges.30 At far higher levels, this network of hidden persuaders has even jury-rigged investigations undertaken by the United Nations, in order to engineer findings that favour ex-Stasi men.31 After 1983, KD Treptow was relocated from […]

View from the bridge

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* ‘This is not a nothing-burger . . .’ . . . was Jefferson Morley’s initial reaction to the JFK documents recently declassified.1 Morley was referring to the revelation that head of CIA […]

Maggie’s guilty secret

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] were then forwarded to Iraq or Iran, usually funneled through Jordan or Cyprus (some shipments of propellant – falsely labelled as chocolate – were, unknown to him, hidden among consignments sent through Asil Nadir’s Unipac in North Cyprus). Exposure and shut-down But by 1986-87 the story was beginning to unravel. Astra Explosives in Kent […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] and communities. In fact, CP is an elitist pro-EU political organisation helping to replace democracy in UK, and worldwide, with CP chosen “elite” leaders. In truth, their hidden networks and political objectives are undermining and destroying our democratic society and are threatening “free will” in adults, teenagers and children. Their work is funded by […]

View from the bridge

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Broken-down Blighty Amidst the chorus of derision at President Trump’s economic policies, I haven’t noticed a single voice pointing out that his apparent aim of rebuilding the US manufacturing economy behind tariff […]

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] we look back at a time when the talk was more important than the walk, and when scruffy entrepreneurs were courted by greedy venture capitalists, their ties hidden in their pockets.’ The crash was even more severe on Wall Street, and in an ominous foretaste of what was to come, the Federal Reserve Board […]

The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] selective sharing of information by the secret state, but not one that the author is interested in addressing. During the Cold War British spies strove to find hidden killer insights into the real nature of the Soviet system, when in actuality the slow collapse of the Eastern bloc might have been discerned from economic […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in the New World Order (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2000). John Lindsay Poland makes much the same point about the media in Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama (Duke University Press, 2003) p. 122. That said, there were many important exceptions, and I am grateful to the diligent […]

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