Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
For some time, the world’s secret services have been making use of loose structures parallel to the official clandestine hierarchies for their more controversial activities. Fred Holroyd’s revelations have shown how the British state employed Loyalist paramilitaries for kidnap and assassination operations in Eire, whilst the Irangate hearings have exposed what is, so far, the … Read more
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
Secret Nazi Technology which could have changed the course of WWII Gary Hyland and Anton Gill, Headline Books, 1998, £18.99 Thirty years ago schoolboys built model aeroplanes. The most common and popular were, for the Airfix generation, the main combat types of the last great war – Spitfires, Me109s, Mustangs, Zeros, Lancasters, Flying Fortresses etc … Read more
Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
[…] specific instructions from CIA officer ‘”Maurice Bishop”. As Veciana tells it, “Bishop’s” intention was to cause further trouble between Kennedy and Russia – within months of the Missile Crisis which had brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. His purpose was “to put Kennedy against the wall in order to force him […]
Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££
[…] bigger names, writes: “The authors not only endorse Soviet negotiating positions.. they endorse the official Warsaw Pact line almost in its entirety … (they) present recent Soviet missile deployments in Poland, Czechoslovakia and the GDR as legitimately defensive ” etc. A large (two page) piece on the murder of Hilda Murrell (the anti-nuclear campaigner) […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
The Imperial War Museum book of Modern Warfare: British and Commonwealth Forces at War 1945-2000 Edited by Major General Julian Thompson London: Pan Books, 2003, £8.99 This is the paperback edition of the book published by Sidgwick and Jackson a year ago. It contains 15 essays on conflicts that have involved British armed forces … Read more
Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££
The Shadow Warriors Bradley F. Smith (Andre Deutsch, London 1983) The network of close personal connections established in O.S.S. (the fore-runner of the CIA) “helped bridge some of the widest gaps in American society and could be called upon in cases of need long after the war ended. For example, when in 1964 former British … Read more
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] section of the superb Federation of American Scientists website. Includes What’s New; Hot Documents; Intelligence Reform Project; Intelligence Agencies and Budgets; Intelligence Threat Assessments such as CBW, missile proliferation, terrorism, crime, narcotics, environment, cybersecurity GAO and Congressional reports, eg Information Security: Computer Attacks at DoD Pose Increasing Risks (GAO/AIMD-96-84)). Web Resources: huge resource of […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] in the repeated bombing of Iraq and the wars in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan.’ As a vivid example, Curtis reminds us of Blair’s support for the 1998 US missile attack on the Al Shifa plant in Sudan where 90 per cent of that very poor country’s pharmaceuticals were made. In words to be almost exactly […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] copy be destroyed. The report was obtained after a 2 year FOIA effort by the National Security Archive. The report is at: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/latin_america/cuba/ig_report/index.html On-line version: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/latin_america/cuba/ig_report/images/Cuban_Operation.htm Cuban Missile Crisis http://oyez.nwu.edu/history-out-loud/jfk/cuban/ Includes audiofiles documenting the crisis between Oct 18-29 1962, including JFK’s conversations with staff. David Turner’s Homepage http://www.canterbury.u-net.com/ Website of David Turner, a phd […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
Advertising In 1960s Iraq, the children of the poor carried their most treasured possessions to school in much coveted, branded soap-powder packets. When these eventually disintegrated, what remained was stuck up on the classroom wall. As a result, children could pick out the words ‘Tide’ or ‘Omo’. Praised by their teacher for doing so, a … Read more
