The corporate ex-spook business

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] means anything that damages ‘reputation’: for example, if there is a suggestion that a product is faulty, or if a subsidiary is found to have supported child labour or spoiled the environment. This damages overall business activity and can undermine licence to operate. Resulting action, sometimes including regulatory and legislative action, can cost millions. […]

PERMINDEX: The International Trade in Disinformation

Lobster Issue 2 (1983)

[…] his links to the CIA and the Government didn’t appear to stop his taking on the title ex– CIA. But the biscuit is taken by the US Labour Party who seem to have survived the last decade peddling absolute garbage about Permindex – the conspiracy not only including the Kennedy assassination, but also the […]

Historical Notes: MI5 and the Wilson Plot. USA and Chile. Hess

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] all that a few, a very few malcontents in MI5, a lot of them right wing, malicious…..were spreading damaging and malicious stories about some members of that Labour Government’. This may very well not be the whole story. How many were ‘a few, a very few’, especially when ‘a lot’ of these had extreme […]

SAS: the Stiff Memoir

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

[…] with most Africans, could shoot straight, or seemed able to learn.’) More interesting, he was a member of an SAS team dispatched to Thailand by Harold Wilson’s Labour government to train Thai special forces. This, it was hoped by the regiment, was the beginning of a more substantial commitment that would end with British […]

Baghdad’s Spy: A Personal Memoir of Espionage and Intrigue from Iraq to London

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] the pension she was due and resist SIS attempts to get her to spy for them in Parliament. She formed an unlikely long-distance alliance with the left-wing Labour MP the late Bob Cryer who, like her, was interested in the corruption of the parliamentary lobbying system. They never met. Just before their first arranged […]

The Ulster Citizen Army smear

Lobster Issue 14 (1987)

[…] a fourth is another UDA man, James Mcmichael, who came across from Northern Ireland earlier this year to tell the Ron Horn saga to Merlyn Rees, former Labour Home Secretary and Northern Irish Secretary. While it isn’t difficult to see why a British spook would want to discredit Wallace, the role of these UDA […]

The Dirty War, and, The SAS in Ireland (Book reviews)

Lobster Issue 21 (1991)

The Dirty War Martin Dillon, Hutchinson, London, 1990. The SAS in Ireland Raymond Murray, Mercier Press, Cork and Dublin, 1991 Martin Dillon is a freelance journalist in Northern Ireland with a long career behind him: editor and radio presenter for the BBC in Northern Ireland, co-author of the Penguin Special, Political Murder In Northern Ireland … Read more

South African Connections

Lobster Issue 1 (1983)

[…] Midland Bank; and Sir Ian Gilmour. Current FARI Chairman is Sir Frederick Bennet, Director of CAU and Kleinwort Benson and a member of the Bilderberg group. See Labour Research June 1983 – The South African Connection, for Tory links to SA. Also mentioned are the familiar names of G. Stewart Smith, Ian Greig and […]

Get Gough! The loans affair conspiracy

Lobster Issue 13 (1987)

[…] Committee, PO Box 18541, Christchurch, New Zealand, which publishes and distributes material on US/CIA operations in the region. As multi-national capital shifts east in search of cheap labour and new markets, the focus of CIA et al operations is shifting also. The Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand, is going to be the “hot” […]

Britain, America and Anti-Communist Propaganda 1945-53

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] developed in the fifties and sixties, how IRD came to circulate (and the rest of Whitehall let it circulate) material about the ‘Soviet threat’ within the British labour movement; and how this nonsense came to be inserted into the conflict in Northern Ireland (‘Britain’s Cuba’ as IRD christened it ). For that – what […]

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