Drugs, oil and war

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] factors reinforce the continuity sketched in the preceding paragraph. One is the continuing involvement of regular or “rogue” CIA officers , such as Ray Cline or Edwin Wilson, at every stage.13 Another, not unrelated, is the recurring allegations that the China Lobby, the Unification Church and the APACL have all derived their considerable budgets […]

The CIA and radiation experiments on humans

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

[…] and Development Board, which included several panels and committees. For example, the Committee on Medical Sciences helped to formulate the policy which eventually led Secretary of Defense Wilson to issue the memorandum implementing the Nuremberg Code in 1953. The Code provided sufficient medical and ethical guidelines to safeguard the interest of volunteers in human […]

Two views of Dorril: MI6: Fifty years of Special Operations

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] Government supplied more small arms to its Moslem Northern stooges than the British Army fired in the whole of World War Two. Search the memoirs of Lord Wilson, Lord Healey (directly responsible) and Lord Callaghan (deeply involved in planning the covert operations in Nigeria) and you will find black holocaust denial. Nor, sadly, will […]

Dean Andrews’ testimony to the Warren Commission

Lobster Issue 20 (1990)

[…] telling us that the taxi driver’s version of the shooting in Dallas was not a million miles from that described in the first volume of the Shea/ Wilson fantasy The Illuminatus Trilogy, with teams of would-be assassins bumping into each other in the bushes behind the grassy knoll. If true, ‘Milan’s’ book is a […]

Bean counters and empire

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] much the same way that Malaya (or Korea) had in the ’40s and ’50s. Walker was particularly active in 1974–1976 in manoeuvres that aimed to replace the Wilson government with a non-party coalition. These were interesting times: the miners’ strikes of 1972 and 1974, triggered by years of disputes about pay and colliery closures, […]

The Perfect English Spy

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] – but unsourced. White asked Oldfield about ‘allegations that he was a homosexual and had accepted his denial’. During the Rhodesian UDI crisis, we are told, Harold Wilson asked White to prepare a plan ‘for the overthrow of Smith’, but the officer to whom White gave the job sympathised with Rhodesia and reported ‘he […]

Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Research

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] are crap. Steve Dorril and I ran into this view on our first trip to the Big Nowhere to talk to the higher media about the Wallace- Wilson material. In late ’86, just before Wallace got out of prison, we were invited to see some people at BBC’s Newsnight. We had been told by […]

MI5 and the threat from the left in the 1970s

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] radicalised its policies against the private sector and the UK’s NATO commitments.’ Burns commented that, The paper] appears to give some credibility to claims made by Mr Wilson, following his resignation, that MI5 contained a group of right-wing officers who were incapable of distinguishing between socialism and communism, and were plotting against the government.’ […]

Golitsyn

Lobster Issue 5 (1984)

One of the recurring sub-themes of the literature on intelligence systems in the West in the past decade has been the status of the claims made by KGB defector Golitsyn. Until recently all the book-reading public knew about Golitsyn was (a) that he has exposed some (relatively minor) Soviet operations; (b) made a series of […]

Transnational Classes and International Relations

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] a hypothesis to be worked out later, the succession of high-level assassinations and engineered removals of top politicians (Willy Brandt in 1974, Gough Whitlam in 1975, Harold Wilson in 1976, Aldo Moro and Pope John Paul I in 1978, and Olof Palme in 1986, to name but the most spectacular cases) can probably only […]

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