Robin Ramsay, editor

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[…] Picnic Publishing, 2008) Who Shot JFK? (2002) The Rise of New Labour (2002) Conspiracy Theories: Almost Everything You Need to Know in One Essential Guide (2000) Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (1991) by Stephen Dorrill and Robin Ramsay  Interviews and talks Article: Sunday Herald in 17 August 2003. See also: Robin Ramsay at […]

Updating and Ongoing

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] of which he was Secretary. Published in 1968, an A2 format pamphlet, Biafra included some acute insights into the politics of oil, the feeble response of the Wilson Government, and the role of the tame British Africa correspondents recycling the Foreign Office line — almost everything, in fact, except the Harold Smith material. Non-lethal […]

Historical Notes: Blair and Gladstone

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] the Ottoman perpetrators at least kept the Russians out of the Balkans) and worked for Irish Home Rule. He has been seen as a forerunner of Woodrow Wilson, whose crusade for national self-determination inspired millions at the end of World War One, and as one of the founders of liberalism. So how can he […]

Terrorism and Intelligence in Australia

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] CIA in funding the opposition parties and leaning on ASIO.(1) Will the academic version of MI5 for this period (should there ever be one) be as forthcoming about ‘the Wilson plots’? Notes A decent recent summary of those events, ‘The Hidden Australia – a secret recent History of the Whitlam Dismissal’, is available at .

Sources

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] absolutely priceless illustration of the mind-boggling hypocrisy of so much US foreign policy. Copies are free on request from The Cold War International History Project Bulletin, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 100 Jefferson Drive SW, Washington DC 20560. They are also on the project’s Website: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/cwihp Flatland Flatland 14 contains 63 pages of […]

From roll back to blowback

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] today Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, a leading U.S. expert on South Asia said here.’ ‘”I warned them that we were creating a monster”, Selig Harrison from the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars said at the conference here last week on “Terrorism and Regional Security: Managing the Challenges in Asia”.’ ‘…….Harrison said: “The CIA made […]

Within The Secret State: a disturbing study of the use and misuse of power

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] in which he reminds us of Brigadier Kitson’s ideas, the talk of a coup in The Times in 1974, General Sir Walter Walker’s Civil Assistance and ‘the Wilson plots’. This isn’t done very well – not enough detail and no indication from Evans that this field has been ploughed already – but for a […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] wrote: ‘I can now reveal that in 1967, I talked at some length to the head of MI6, the late Sir Maurice Oldfield, who helped to persuade Wilson not to accede to Lyndon Johnson’s request to send a battalion of bagpipers (sic) to Vietnam. (Johnson wanted a token presence in Vietnam…)’ Anthony Cavendish, former […]

Miscellaneous: Cold war. Disinformation. Elite. Unclassified. G.K. Young, Unison

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)

[…] of all people and who regard the idea of hereditary privilege elites as both divisive and morally repugnant.’ 16 A4 pages, it is published by Dr. Edgar Wilson at 29 Heath End Road, Alsager, Stoke on Trent ST7 2SQ at 1.50 per issue. (No information on overseas prices or subscriptions.) I found it rather […]

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

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] that the British state was engaged in continuous guerrilla warfare in its colonies after the war. On the revelations in the late 1980s of campaigns against the Wilson government we get nothing but repeated and unsubstantiated rubbishing of the late Peter Wright (pp. 17, 60, 65). There are some new fragments. He has interviewed […]

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