New Cloak, Old Dagger: How Britain’s Spies Came In From The Cold

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] to ‘a small undercover SAS team stationed at Castledillon in the mid 1970s’. One interpretation of these shifting accounts, all sourced directly or indirectly back to the MOD, is that the Ministry is inching up on the truth – i.e. Fred Holroyd’s position – but doing it slowly in the hope that no-one will […]

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Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] in wheelchairs, had assembled by the Ministry of Defence for their dignified lobbying of MPs, but a Lord Levy LFI fundraiser at the Banqueting Suite between the MoD and the Cenotaph was where the heavy police and Community Security Trust presence took precedence. LFI guest of honour was Gordon Brown. Seen scuttling up Whitehall […]

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Clippings Digest to May 31st. 1984

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] alleges CIA getting their information (re above) from Ministry of Defence. Guardian 14th April In Sunday Times piece (above) link said to be ‘US liaison staff at MOD’. Castro Enteritis Mike Osbourne in Undercurrents Feb/March 1984 Valuable 3pp summary of US (mainly CIA) attempts to wreak eco-war on Cuba’s crops, animals, weather, people. Undercurrents […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] resources on psyops has been the publicity surrounding former Army information officer in Northern Ireland, Colin Wallace and allegations of a disinformation campaign.’ But I thought the MOD line was that Wallace was making it all up? Tara lives? Still in Wallace country, Roy Garland, former member of William ‘the Beast of Kincora’ McGrath’s […]

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Ian Macgregor, Lazards, Pearsons, and Amax

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] (1965) Guardian (4th June 1982) “One important aerospace industry supplier, Fairey, admits that it has cleared the decks in some cases to meet urgent demands from the MOD.” See Desmond Young, Member for Mexico (1966); R. O’Connor The Oil Barons (1972); P. Calvert The Mexican Revolution (1968) See Sampson (note 27) p437. It seems […]

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Clippings: The Lie Detector Story

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

[…] SB had 65 members in 1979. Two page report City Limits (2 September 1983) on list of ex SB members and subsequent employment. Organisation hiring such include: MOD, Standard Telephone and Cable, Plessey, British Gas, and Saladin Security. Convicted murderer Ronald Waldron claims he was a contract killer for Mid East groups while employed […]

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Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices

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[PDF file]: […] 1989 the then Secretary of State for Defence, Tom King, and the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, misled Parliament by not only suppressing the conclusions of an internal MoD inquiry, but also by replacing that inquiry with a new one which had much more restricted terms of reference. For example, the Defence Secretary wrote to […]

Kincora: abuse and the British state

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for the first time, Peter Broderick, Wallace’s boss at the time (1974), confirmed to me that he saw the document (The Tara press brief HIA inquiry disclosed MoD document KIN-102649. See p. 149 at . 4 3 used by Wallace to highlight McGrath’s homosexuality and his role in running a children’s home) and wrote […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 8 Foreign Office quoted in Curtis (see note 5) p. 41. security interests.’9 To the general public, NATO is promoted as a humanitarian intervener. As the UK MoD has said, the public only tolerates war when it perceives ‘moral legitimacy’. Libya has the largest known oil reserves in Africa. Nigeria has the second largest […]

Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] causing the deaths of 35 people. Reporting in 2001, ‘a BBC investigation has confirmed that secret experiments were causing heavy rainfall’, though the Ministry of Defence ( MOD) denied any connection between the seeding experiments and the flood. Initially, the MoD even denied conducting any cloud seeding experiments at all. ‘Survivors tell how the […]

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