Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] early April at http://cryptome.org/soil/soiled-dove2.htm appeared a big report, status and origins unclear at time of writing, on BAE, the notorious Al Yamamah deal with the Saudis and Thatcher et al. Looks important. MKUltra Several thousand digitised images of MKUltra documents were provided to Intellnet by an anonymous donor. Archive of document images is at […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
The other Bilderberg Between 1964 and 1966 there was a little-known attempt to establish a new Commonwealth conference modelled on the Bilderberg Group, with Prince Philip lined up to take a leading role. Nothing ever came of it, mainly because of the impact that Rhodesia’s UDI had on Commonwealth affairs. Newly released documents from The […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] overthrow him gives some insight into the murky world of mercenaries and their financial backers.(28) One well known name that keeps cropping up is that of Mark Thatcher, although, thanks to the efforts of his mother, he ‘never spent a day in jail, despite investing in an aircraft that the plotters intended to use […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] capital emerging from the supply of consumer wants (including guns, sex, labour, drugs, untaxed goods and unregulated financial services), the lifting of capital controls by the Reagan- Thatcher generation also meant the globalisation of criminality in all its forms. What happened between the mid-1990s (when the great debate on post-Soviet security took place) and […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
BERR In a profile of John Hutton, the new Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Hutton said that Labour ‘is the natural party of business’,(1) another benchmark (or, in Corinne Souza country, ‘rebranding’) in the shift from old to New Labour. For it was Harold Wilson’s boast that he had made Labour … Read more
Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
[…] of unlawful activities by members of the Security Forces in Ulster in the early 1970s initiated an RUC and Garda inquiry, is currently in correspondence with Mrs Thatcher. He has pointed out to her that the Ulster Director of Public Prosecutions’ statement that “there was insufficient evidence to bring charges against anyone” is simply […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] to identify his politics. Three years ago David Aaronovitch wrote about him. (14)Aaronovitch noted that Laughland is European Director of the European Foundation whose patron is Margaret Thatcher, and concluded by describing Laughland (and his associates) as ‘right-wing anti-state libertarians and isolationists, suspicious of any foreign entanglements’. Aaronovitch’s description above isn’t entirely inaccurate, though […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] intelligence services including Count de Marenches, ex Director of the SDECE; Temple Franks and Nicholas Elliot of MI6. “Crozier, Elliot and Franks recently (ie 1982) visited Mrs Thatcher at Chequers for discussions and work.” Crozier’s group designed to ensure victory for Thatcher, Strauss, and to combat terrorism, etc. The group can furnish articles, access […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] interesting for two reasons. One is precisely this ‘tip’ at a time when most of the British electorate had little idea who John Major was and Mrs. Thatcher showed no signs of quitting. The second is the author of this piece, David Moller. The CIA’s links to the American Reader’s Digest during the cold […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] sections of the British government, and particularly to MI6, the department charged with protecting Britain’s foreign interests. Target Heseltine? Throughout 1990, the then British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, was fighting for her political life. Dissatisfaction with the Poll Tax, which she had pushed through against the advice of many in her own Cabinet, had […]