Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)
[…] fourteenth, and seventeenth meetings of the Committee on Medical Sciences. CIA History Staff Memo, 1994, pp. 10-12. ‘In Vivo Caliberation Studies Using Humans Administered Niobium-92 Barium-133, Palladium- 103, Chromium-51, and Strontium-85. Human Radiation Experiments Associated with the US Department of Energy and Its Predecessors’, US DoE, Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Health, July […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
[…] his ambition of selection for the SAS. This had one drawback: it meant he missed the Suez invasion ‘in which should have much liked to fight’ (p. 103). Instead, he was sent to Malaya to take part in the closing stages of the counter-insurgency campaign against the Communists. According to de la Billiere the […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
There is an unmistakable thread running through America’s move eastward since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Using their vast economic clout – in the form of loans, grants and sanctions – and backed by threatening military supremacy (to say nothing of the devious use of ‘unattributable’ mercenary groups such as the MPRI), … Read more
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] Cottrell, recently sent me the text of his new book on Lockerbie, Ashes in the Fall: Iran-Contra, the godfather of terror and the bombing of Pan Am 103 (forthcoming from Red Door).81 The paragraphs below are from the introduction. I have not been following Lockerbie and this was new to me and thus, perhaps, […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
[PDF file]: […] system, and many of its senior members, emerge from Lockerbie with little credit. But, as the canny First Minister also says, the fate of Pan Am Flight 103 on that December evening is caught up in matters of high political import. The feelings of al-Megrahi’s family and friends come very low on the agendas […]