Two views of Dorril: MI6: Fifty years of Special Operations

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] 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 […]

Letter from Fred Holroyd to The Guardian

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

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

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] 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 […]

USA & the CIA

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

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 […]

Rothschild, the right, the far-right and the Fifth Man

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] 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 […]

The accountability of the intelligence and security services

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[…] the Commissioners who review the operation of the various activities authorised by the Act. The position of Intelligence Services Commissioner is currently held by Lord Justice Simon Brown. He is responsible for reviewing and reporting upon the issue and authorisation by the relevant minister of warrants for operations by the Agencies for example warrants […]

Journals

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

[…] Michael Speers and Nigel West, editors. $30/year (4 issues) from Michael Speers, PO Box 232, Weston, VT 05161. USA. International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence: F. Reese Brown, editor-in-chief, $10/year (quarterly) from Intel Publishing Group, PO Box 188, Stroudsburg, PA 18360. USA. Lobster: Robin Ramsay, editor. $14/year (4 issues) from Lobster, 17c Pearson Avenue, […]

The Tory Right between the wars

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

[…] 6 January 1923 (for B.E.U.) A constant feature of the Tory right-wing has been its xenophobia. Since the Monday Club’s appearance the targets have been black and brown people in Britain. Before the second World War it was the Eastern Europeans in general and the Jews in particular. These were the ‘aliens’. Immediately after […]

Parallel development: the Workers Party and the Progressive Unionist Party in Northern Ireland

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[…] a woman. He had two tickets to Canada, for himself and his daughter, in his pocket and was subsequently accused of having embezzled UDA funds. (24) Gregory Brown walked into a Police station in England and confessed to Herron’s killing in 1983.(25) This incident didn’t mark the end of political radicalism in the UDA […]

The death of Diana: an update

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] Stone to the alt.conspiracy.princess-diana discussion forum – 16 March 2000. Trevor Rees-Jones with Moira Johnston, The Bodyguard’s story: Diana, the crash and the sole survivor, (London: Little, Brown, 2000.) One gets the impression that Moira Johnston did the bulk of the writing. An earlier book of hers, Spectral evidence: the Ramona Case – incest, […]

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