Parapolitical bits and pieces

Lobster Issue 7 (1985)

[…] an engineering firm facing criminal charges as part of an international black market in stolen British naval parts. (Observer 28 October 1984), and an army major in MOD intelligence (plus his wife and 2 kids).(Sunday Telegraph 2 September 1984) The newsagency, Reuters, is so widely assumed to be a routine cover for British intelligence […]

Lobbying

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] one million pounds from defence contractors and others in exchange for steering government contracts their way and other favours (The Times, 4 March 2006). Similarly, senior British MOD civil servant Michael Hale was jailed for two years in April this year for accepting bribes from an American company (Daily Telegraph, 17 April 2007). The […]

Mind control, mobiles and the military

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] are being denied by the British and American military establishments.See, for example, Michael Clarke, ‘Doing the Wrong Thing in Afghanistan: Depleted Uranium: The Definitive Moral Paradox’ at and Leuren Moret, ‘Depleted Uranium is WMD’ at . There must be special section of Hell reserved for the lawyers who work for the MOD and US Army.

The View from the Bridge. British American Project. Teddy Taylor MP. New Labour

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[…] unremitting hostility to the European Union and his love of Bob Marley’s music. But nearly a decade ago he was the intermediary between Fred Holroyd and the MOD who came with an offer of money if Fred gave up on Colin Wallace. Then he was a deniable intermediary between Libya and the Foreign Office. […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] in wheelchairs, had assembled by the Ministry of Defence for their dignified lobbying of MPs, but a Lord Levy LFI fundraiser at the Banqueting Suite between the MoD and the Cenotaph was where the heavy police and Community Security Trust presence took precedence. LFI guest of honour was Gordon Brown. Seen scuttling up Whitehall […]

Clippings Digest to May 31st. 1984

Lobster Issue 5 (1984)

[…] alleges CIA getting their information (re above) from Ministry of Defence. Guardian 14th April In Sunday Times piece (above) link said to be ‘US liaison staff at MOD’. Castro Enteritis Mike Osbourne in Undercurrents Feb/March 1984 Valuable 3pp summary of US (mainly CIA) attempts to wreak eco-war on Cuba’s crops, animals, weather, people. Undercurrents […]

New Cloak, Old Dagger: How Britain’s Spies Came In From The Cold

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] to ‘a small undercover SAS team stationed at Castledillon in the mid 1970s’. One interpretation of these shifting accounts, all sourced directly or indirectly back to the MOD, is that the Ministry is inching up on the truth – i.e. Fred Holroyd’s position – but doing it slowly in the hope that no-one will […]

Ian Macgregor, Lazards, Pearsons, and Amax

Lobster Issue 5 (1984)

[…] (1965) Guardian (4th June 1982) “One important aerospace industry supplier, Fairey, admits that it has cleared the decks in some cases to meet urgent demands from the MOD.” See Desmond Young, Member for Mexico (1966); R. O’Connor The Oil Barons (1972); P. Calvert The Mexican Revolution (1968) See Sampson (note 27) p437. It seems […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] resources on psyops has been the publicity surrounding former Army information officer in Northern Ireland, Colin Wallace and allegations of a disinformation campaign.’ But I thought the MOD line was that Wallace was making it all up? Tara lives? Still in Wallace country, Roy Garland, former member of William ‘the Beast of Kincora’ McGrath’s […]

Clippings: The Lie Detector Story

Lobster Issue 3 (1984)

[…] SB had 65 members in 1979. Two page report City Limits (2 September 1983) on list of ex SB members and subsequent employment. Organisation hiring such include: MOD, Standard Telephone and Cable, Plessey, British Gas, and Saladin Security. Convicted murderer Ronald Waldron claims he was a contract killer for Mid East groups while employed […]

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