Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)
[…] with the US Department of Defense officials, no record of the mission had been found. Clearly this was no denial. Moreover, the official who responded to the MOD enquiry was Bernard Rostker, the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illness. Hardly the person one would expect to be privy to top secret information on a […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)
[…] Advisory Team. Other than confirming that 4 Field Survey Troop were in Northern Ireland when and where Holroyd said they were, no further information was forthcoming, the MOD replying, through junior minister Roger Freeman, that ‘Detailed information on this unit, which is not now deployed in the Province, is not available.'() Fast forward to […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] to serve in NATO. The US and the UK have dominated serious appointments in NATO for years, for this reason. It is the driving priority of the MOD to keep it that way. They do not think in terms of national interest, but of both MOD interest and the American interest.’ And talking about […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] and GCHQ.’ David Sharrock, ‘D-notice slapped on MoD’s history of censorship, Secrecy and the media, after spat over “turgid” writing’, The Times, 24 October 2008; Jack Lefley, ‘MOD censors its censor’s history for being boring’, The Evening Standard, 24 October 2008. Anon., ‘Former spy wins first round of “son of Spycatcher” book publication battle’, […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] Ritter as a ‘secretive intelligence activity buried inside the DIS which dealt with Iraqi weapons of mass destruction’.(19) Comfortable consorting with the press (Kelly also attended an MOD senior officers TV course at Wilton Park), we are told by Nick Rufford of The Sunday Times that Kelly had sometimes been ‘an undercover man for […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)
[…] an interesting figure. A sometime full-time soldier, now with the BBC, Urban affects not to be just the traditional defence correspondent, dependent on the droppings of the MOD press office. He notes in this book that while he was entitled to non-attributable briefings from the MOD, he chose not to have them while writing […]