Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] in the world rather than considerably further down the list, as would be the case if it relied on its own natural resources. In December 1962 President Kennedy referred to Israel as having a ‘special relationship’ with the US of the same type that the US had with Britain. In the early stages of […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] theories of the right-wing of the US foreign policy world in the 1980s. She has frequently been alleged to be CIA but no evidence has surfaced yet. Kennedy Lindsay John Kennedy Lindsay died suddenly on 8 May 1997 at his home near Templepatrick outside Belfast. He was born in 1924 in Canada and returned […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
I was a student here (1) from 1971-74 doing a social science degree; but more importantly, between 1976 and 1982 I was on the dole much of the time and spent most of my days in the library here, educating myself in post-war history, American history, what was available then about the intelligence services – […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)
[…] The more recent volumes make use of declass’d records, Presidential tape recordings, and other documents. Currently 21 recent volumes are on-line, including those on the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Centre for the Study of Intelligence http://www.odci.gov/csi/ Conducts research on intelligence and publishes classsified and unclassified editions of the Studies in Intelligence journals. […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] female members of the SLL and WRP over a long period of time. The Conservative candidate against him in the February 1974 general election had been George Kennedy Young, the former Deputy Director of MI6. For Young on Young see his ‘The final testimony of George Kennedy Young’ in Lobster 19. A more plausible […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)
[…] with British politics as with certain of its discrete institutions’. Presumably SIS. See Korbonski p. 20. Later American participants included Robert MacNamara, US Secretary of Defence under Kennedy and Johnson (earlier chair of the Ford Motor Company, and later President of the World Bank); and McGeorge Bundy, who worked on the Marshall Plan, was […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
The Cecil King coup plot as precursor to Gordon Brown’s ‘government of all the talents’ Students of parapolitics are divided as to the seriousness of the Cecil King coup plot of 1968 to establish what he called a ‘businessman’s government’, a permanent coalition government dominated by the right of the Labour Party but with unelected […]