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Lobster Issue

[…] bell. Patrick Meehan claimed MI5 framed him for murder because he knew something potentially embarrassing about the British state ‘springing’ Soviet spy George Blake from prison;7 Colin Wallace was framed for manslaughter because he knew about MI5’s antiLabour psy-ops in 1974; and Peter Sanderson was framed for robbery to discredit anything he chose to […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] bell. Patrick Meehan claimed MI5 framed him for murder because he knew something potentially embarrassing about the British state ‘springing’ Soviet spy George Blake from prison;7 Colin Wallace was framed for manslaughter because he knew about MI5’s antiLabour psy-ops in 1974; and Peter Sanderson was framed for robbery to discredit anything he chose to […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] bell. Patrick Meehan claimed MI5 framed him for murder because he knew something potentially embarrassing about the British state ‘springing’ Soviet spy George Blake from prison;7 Colin Wallace was framed for manslaughter because he knew about MI5’s antiLabour psy-ops in 1974; and Peter Sanderson was framed for robbery to discredit anything he chose to […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] can be found in a piece on him on Powerbase.9 This includes Wilkinson’s role in trying to disinform Channel Four News’ investigation of the allegations of Colin Wallace. Wilkinson passed to Channel Four an elaborate smear about From ‘George Monbiot and the Guardian on “Genocide Denial” and “Revisionism”’ by Edward S. Herman and David […]

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Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Huh? Among the government files from the 1980s which were released in late December, was one concerning the Peter Wright book Spycatcher. The Guardian reported that on one of these documents prime minister […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Challenger 3. Each of the Challenger 3s will cost nearly £5.5 million; total order £800 million. As part of the launch of this story, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace was reported as saying this tank is better than anything the Russians have.3 This really is bizarre. Mr Wallace is apparently envisaging a tank battle somewhere […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Huh? Among the government files from the 1980s which were released in late December, was one concerning the Peter Wright book Spycatcher. The Guardian reported that on one of these documents prime minister […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] rice and wheat crops. The Iraqis looked at this in the 1980s for possible use against 14 The Net attributes this to the American novelist David Foster Wallace but it’s much older than that. I just can’t remember who said it first. 15 16 See below under subhead Ah yes: the USA as moral […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] being reviewed by someone else. But I can’t resist commenting on a couple of pages on Northern Ireland about which I have some knowledge. First there’s Colin Wallace, ‘an information officer based at the British army headquarters in Lisburn, Northern Ireland He had apparently adopted a rather too cavalier approach to his job’. (pp. […]

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