Enduring Freedom

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] February that more than 11,000 injured had been through Andrews air force base in the previous nine months and the real figure was probably higher than that. Mike Small is one of an editorial group running Indymedia Scotland – – and is writing a book on ‘Blairusconi: the New Labour Project and the Italian Right’.

Book Reviews

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Lobster Issue 3 (1984)

[…] to the Birmingham bombings. It is a devastating expose of an intelligence system out of control and outside the state system. Talk of democratic accountability from the Labour Party is a sick joke when one reads what took place when they were in power. Both of the above have good appendices (including a long […]

Plotting for Peace and War

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] within the Conservative Party, the security and intelligence services, the City of London and the Bank of England and large-scale industry. Together with a handful of renegade Labour M.Ps like Richard Stokes, they might have formed a National Government committed to a non-aggression pact with Germany and the pursuit of a managed capitalism at […]

Peter’s friends?

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

On Friday 7 August I was told by a journalist at another paper that the Mail on Sunday had a story that Cabinet Minister Peter Mandelson had worked for the spooks – though which branch was not clear. ‘That doesn’t surprise me,’ I said, and described Mandelson’s 1978 Foreign Office (or SIS?)-funded trip to Cuba. […]

Re:

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] compile a detailed account of the Commonwealth Bilderberg’s origins in which he also suggests that the original Bilderberg had assumed a significant degree of importance to senior Labour Party figures. Philip Murphy, ‘By invitation only: Lord Mountbatten, Prince Philip, and the attempt to create a Commonwealth “Bilderberg Group”, 1964-66’. The Journal of Imperial and […]

Philip Agee, the KGB and us

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] range as a reference group, thought the KGB story was a smear. Agee told us the lie we wanted to hear. (And one or two of the Labour MPs involved may have been within the Soviet orbit at the time.) Further, in the Soviet-American competition of the Cold War, to say something bad about […]

Iraq

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] damning intelligence against Iraq being selectively chosen, while intelligence assessments, which might have worked against the build-up to war, were sidelined. Intelligence work had become politicised under Labour, and spies were taking orders from politicians. They provided worst-case scenarios which were use by politicians to make factual claims.'(3) There were no names and no […]

The Police and Computers: Some Recent Developments

Lobster Issue 3 (1984)

[…] computer-based information handling, only with the computer’s assistance can this kind of intensive information gathering be usefully handled. On Humberside, after a flurry of anxiety within the Labour Party, the Humberside Police Committee awoke briefly from its slumbers, and asked the Chief Constable to produce the Operational Requirements of the system. He refused, instead […]

Termini

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] conviction, guilty or otherwise; net snooping at work; Echelon and its cousins; the origins of the surveillance society in 19th century use of private detectives to break labour organisations; the history of so-called ‘red squads’; the growth of federal law enforcement agencies and their intelligence gathering; the growth of private, political intelligence gathering from […]

Clockwork Orange 2 Jottings

Lobster Issue 14 (1987)

[…] passed to PIRA and own bank account David O’Connell/Marie Maguire affair Jeremy Thorpe: misuse of party funds Funds from East Germany to finance Wilson’s campaign McGrath/Paisley/McKeague Are Labour deliberately damaging the economy to assist USSR plot against West? Psychoanalysis: Wilson, Benn, O’Connell, Paisley Treasury study shows economy on verge of collapse Jo Richardson, Joan […]

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