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 […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] the biggest British domestic political story for about 20 years, a story of how elements of the secret state and the Tory Right worked together against the Wilson and Callaghan governments of the 1970s, was spurned by messieurs Kinnock and Hattersley; and instead of talking to me about a campaign to uncover the truth […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] May 1995). SIS officer. Niall MacDermot (Obituary by David Leigh in the Guardian, 26 February 1996). War-time MI5 officer, later Labour MP and Minister in the first Wilson government, whose career was halted by MI5 ostensibly because of his wife’s links with Soviet officials, but probably because of his knowledge of the secret services. […]