[…] wrong. For Bernie Hawthorn read Bernie Houghton; for Guy Parker read Guy Pauker; for J. Lansdowne read Jay Lovestone; for Roy Gudson read Roy Godson; for Erwin Brown read Irving Brown; for Tom Braydon read Tom Braden; for Allan Wilks read Owen Wilkes. The first of these transcripts is at http://serendipity.magnet.ch/cia/cia_oz/cia_oz1.htm The McGuffin Very […]
[…] specialist Robert Fisk, continues to pose challenges to Blair on foreign policy while remaining generally supportive of New Labour on the home front. Independent columnist Yasmin Alibhai- Brown, under the headline ‘Watch out for these sinister ideologues’ (October 27, 2003), fiercely attacked British neo-conservatives, echoing Curtis’s charge of duplicity being at the heart of […]
[…] to become Mrs Hasnat Khan and live in suburbia as his wife’. A child was also part of her plan and she was convinced that ‘her “ brown baby” would help improve relations between Muslims and Christians.’ Diana was apparently so besotted with Khan that she considered getting herself pregnant with his child in […]
SIS is dead – you read it first in Lobster – but the funeral has not been announced. Established in 1909, it will not make its centenary. SIS once offered a global brand operating in a market that had been previously divided along the lines of accepted cartels (market fixing). Its market-share, however, has been … Read more
[…] she went down, so did they. (For a while they seemed to genuinely believe that Mrs Thatcher was a libertarian; a bit like believing that Blair and Brown are socialists. ) The book’s title is slightly misleading: the sociology takes up only a small section at the end. This is basically a history – […]
[…] father, mother or little brother. What is the difference between training SAVAK and training the Gestapo? None – except in the case of SAVAK the tortured had brown skin. Dorril also includes some brilliant walk-on parts including Professor Ann Lambton (known as Nancy) of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She was […]
This is the text of a letter The Guardian declined to print It was sent from Fred Holroyd on May 13th 1987 Dear sir, It comes as no surprise that Mrs Thatcher over reacted to the media attempting to discover the real facts of the Gibraltar shootings. Her attitude is vulnerable to close scrutiny, especially … Read more
[…] under Bilderberg, it should say page 367 where there are two paragraphs explaining that BC was invited to Bilderberg by Vernon Jordan and where he met Gordon Brown. This indexing error has been corrected in the recent paperback edition. From: Sebastian Cody Just to say, p. 37 of Lobster 48 says Wiebes’ study of […]
A Covert Life. Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster Ted Morgan New York: Random House, 1999, $29.95 Freedom’s War: The US Crusade Against the Soviet Union Scott Lucas Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999, £45 Secret History: The CIA’s Classified Account of its Operations in Guatemala 1952-54 Nick Cullather Stanford (California): Stanford University Press 1999, £8.95 […]
[…] candidate for the title of Fifth Man has recently entered the arena in the pages of the biography of Sir Stewart Menzies, The Secret Servant, Anthony Cave Brown (Michael Joseph, London 1988). There are some intriguing references to MI6 officer David Footman who was a leading authority on the Soviets within MI6. The hints […]
