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

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] 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 Rise of New Labour: Into Office

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] didn’t get any attention and didn’t sell but is still available in ebook form. I was prompted to make this available because of the rehabilitation of Gordon Brown recently. Lest we forget, he is one of the chief architects of the economic mess we are in. This chapter shows how. Robin Ramsay Chapter 8 […]

‘Nobody told us we could do this’

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] MP’s: a primary allegiance to personal liberty and a belief in free market economics.4 None of this mattered very much in 2006 or in 2007 when Gordon Brown finally ascended to the position of prime minister. If he thought about it at all, given his personal dealings with senior Liberal Democrats Ashdown, Kennedy, Campbell […]

Hack Attack: How The Truth Caught Up With Rupert Murdoch by Nick Davies

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] to get Murdoch to change sides. As Davies points out, since 1979, ‘no British government has been elected without the support of Rupert Murdoch….Thatcher, Major, Blair and Brown have consistently cleared their diaries and welcomed him to the inner sanctum of their governments (and then disclosed as little as possible of what passed between […]

The economic crisis continues

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] what the bankers call a reverse takeover. The scale is mindblowing. RBS’s £2 trillion of liabilities dwarfs not only the government reserves but the entire UK economy. Brown hasn’t so much nationalised the banks, he has bank-ised the nation.’ 4 Nelson used the term ‘bankocracy’, which I thought was recent; Anne Pettifor has used […]

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