Shirley Williams London: Virago, 2009, £20 Tom Easton I learned of this autobiography through catching the husky tones of Baroness Williams reading from its closing chapter on Radio 4. She was warning of the dangers of being ruled by privileged young career politicians who ‘know no life outside politics’. Had I been too harsh in […]
[PDF file]: The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis Garrick Alder It has already been proven in court that the 1968 assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. was the result of a conspiracy involving elements of the US Federal Government.1 This essay is not going to re-hash the work that went into […]
Contents Lobster 58 Unless otherwise stated, reviews below are by Robin Ramsay. Books Climbing the Bookshelves Shirley Williams London: Virago, 2009, £20 Tom Easton I learned of this autobiography through catching the husky tones of Baroness Williams reading from its closing chapter on Radio 4. She was warning of the dangers of being ruled by […]
[PDF file]: […] of 1960, I was the focal-point officer assigned by the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force to provide special Air Force support to certain clandestine CIA overflight operations. In April 1960, a member of the Chief’s Pentagon office staff was in Thailand overseeing a major series of long-range overflights into Tibet and […]
[PDF file]: […] blocked the appointment by threatening to resign. As far as he was concerned, Patel was totally unfit and unqualified. Similarly, when Patel was considered for a top CIA job, Gina Haspel, the Director of the Agency, threatened to resign if Trump went ahead. And then once he was appointed to the NSC, Patel had […]
[PDF file]: […] nationalism, and was deported. The Czech StB defector, Joseph Frolik (who never met, let alone ‘ran’ Stonehouse) named him as one of the StB’s agents to the CIA in 1969/70 when he defected. Frolik also hinted at Stonehouse – without naming him – later in his book, The Frolik Defection (1975). This material is […]
[…] blocked the appointment by threatening to resign. As far as he was concerned, Patel was totally unfit and unqualified. Similarly, when Patel was considered for a top CIA job, Gina Haspel, the Director of the Agency, threatened to resign if Trump went ahead. And then once he was appointed to the NSC, Patel had […]
[PDF file]: […] quietly removed. One reading of this would be as follows: 10 Attlee, too, went full term in 1950, and almost lost. In 1963 the US (specifically the CIA) lost patience with the British old boy network running MI6, following the imprisonment of John Vassall, Philby’s defection and the news that John Profumo MP had, […]
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 Who let the dogs out? Alpha Dogs How political spin became a global business James Harding London: Atlantic Books, 2008, £9.99 Reviewed by ‘Consultant’ In early 2006, a Nepali citizen was kidnapped by Maoist rebels. He had been carrying out opinion surveys on behalf of (pollster) Stan Greenberg’s US firm, to find […]
[PDF file]: […] activity would be just the kind of thing already privatised on the other side of the pond. Some have gone so far as to suggest the entire CIA should be privatised.4 One of the few books on the subject of privatised intelligence, Tim Shorrock’s 2008 Spies for Hire, made it very clear that the […]
