‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] organization, while in other respects it has the characteristics of a tightly disciplined international political party.’ (101) This conclusion is corroborated by the testimony of ex-Moonies like Diana Devine, who confirmed that ‘ll members of the UC are used interchangeably in any one of the 60 front organizations, as needed or assigned by Moon’. […]

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Gone but not forgotten

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] for Grimsby, the constituency ‘handed on’ to Tony Crosland. His cousin William Younger worked for Maxwell Knight as did ‘Bill’s’ mother Joan (Mrs Dennis Wheatley) and sister, Diana. See Anthony Masters, The Man Who was M: The Life of Maxwell Knight (Basil Blackwell 1984) and Nigel West MI5: British Security Service operations 1909-1945 (Triad/Panther […]

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Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] Office colleague Lord Foulkes in speaking on behalf of the British intelligence services and calling for the early ending of the inquest into the death of Princess Diana. Whereas McShane’s rise in Labour politics was through trade union organisations (British, Polish and international, see Lobsters passim), Foulkes built his career during the Cold War […]

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Inside ‘Inside Intelligence’

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

[…] human being. Like Young, Cavendish was accepted as a Conservative candidate in the early seventies, though their politics were to the right of the party. Cavendish, in Diana Menuhin’s account, was “so British as to belong to a past backed by an Empire that ruled the waves,” a world where “theft, deception, lies, mutilation […]

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Fifth Column: The decadence of our political system

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] to be left alone: freedom not to be blown up, freedom to drink all hours, own second homes and travel overseas and freedom to emote (whether about Diana or Tibet or icebergs melting, it doesn’t matter). Give the people growth, security and feel their pain, and all would be well. But all was not […]

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The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11

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[…] the initial capital for the projects of Caucasian Common Market.” Jamestown Foundation, Monitor, Vol. 3, Issue 206, 11/4/97. Another interested party before his tragic death with Princess Diana was Dodi al-Fayad, the owner of Harrod’s and Khashoggi’s nephew. AFP, “From criminal to Islamist: US journalist traces the life of a Chechen rebel,” JRL 7252, […]

After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] along: there is no document and there may well be no safe either. A recent example might be Paul Burrell, sent off by the coroner in the Diana inquest to retrieve his ‘secrets’, eventually exposed as not being secrets at all. Rule B: Unexplained contradictions and other mysteries do not necessarily mean anything strange […]

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Lobbying

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

One of many reasons why the lobbying industry attracts opprobrium is because Britain’s political system offers only limited public sector facility to those who wish to influence it but lack the funding and/or patronage to do so. ‘The lobbyists’ did not cause the injustice. It is up to government to come up with the solutions. […]

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Fifth Column

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

The Brittle Society Alarmists, like Naomi Wolf, have been exaggerating the degree to which the US, and by implication the UK, have been slipping towards a police state. The evidence for true tyranny in either country is weak. However, since it came to power in 1997, it might be reasonably argued(1) that New Labour has […]

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Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] was arrested and interned on 23 May 1940, along with many of his followers (at least those without powerful friends). His monstrous second wife, the appalling Hitler-lover, Diana Mosley, was arrested soon after. The controversy surrounding their release is usefully chronicled together with the subsequent revival of fascist activity. Once again, Dorril is particularly […]

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