Undercover killers at the BBC

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[PDF file]: […] of raw police intelligence that dropped into the hands of professional criminals in Manchester has exposed the danger of Westminster government schemes that were pioneered by Margaret Thatcher – to create a ‘British FBI’ for fighting domestic crime by 3 4 ‘Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair’, Lobster 34 (Winter […]

Lobster review: 1992 guide to intelligence periodics

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[…] almost right, but LOBSTER is also intriguing. A good example is issue# 11 (April 1986, 55 pp.), which is devoted to ”Wilson, �5 and the Rise of Thatcher,” or, “covert operations in British politics 1974-78.” Despite the up-front political slant, it is a comprehensive account which should be included in 104 serious study of […]

South of the border

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[PDF file]: […] These include a batch that are enlightening as to the See ‘St Paul’s bomb plot: IS supporter Safiyya Shaikh “got cold feet”’ . 56 57 See . Thatcher administration’s thoughts on how to deal with the ‘Acid House craze’ that had emerged over the previous couple of years.58 The first document in the file […]

Angles Morts

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[PDF file]: […] the Navy as a whole. Stanley Bonnett died aged 60 in 1985, the year CND named him as an informer in the case they brought against the Thatcher government at the European Court of Human Rights.22 CND dropped the case in 1988. From Stanley’s possessions his daughter Joanna, 21, produced for his funeral the […]

Book reviews

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[…] the tough world of NUM politics, largely keeping from public view his disagreements with Mick McGahey and Arthur Scargill and others while facing the venom of Margaret Thatcher and the 190 Summer 2010 power of the state.1 1 This is an insider’s view of the 1984/85 miners’ strike, the subsequent closures and the working […]

Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

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[PDF file]: […] be inclusive, not exclusive.’ 8 These commitments were reiterated by President Bush, French President Mitterrand, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and by consecutive British Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major. Soviet security US National Security Archive, Record of conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and James Baker, Moscow, 9 February 1990 at or . 7 […]

Lobster review: Green Anarchist, issue 63, Summer 2001

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A  review of Lobster in Green Anarchist, issue 63, Summer 2001

[PDF file]: […] through the 1980s, Lobster engages with current issues; Northern Ireland, the 1984 Miners’ Strike, CND, GCHQ, Falklands. As the decade progressed, the scene develops; Airey Neave and Thatcher, the Hilda Murrell killing, Stalker, and the field widens on to hacking and what we might now call cyber-warfare, microwave and low frequency sonic weapons, and […]

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