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 […]

America, Israel and the Israel lobby

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] the 1918-1939 period. Robert Lansing was the uncle of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles. It is not at all clear how much either Lansing or Woodrow Wilson knew about central and eastern Europe. The Lansing Declaration was made during the US mid-term Congressional Elections. In the last act of the cataclysm favoured by […]

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 […]

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.’ […]

Politics and Paranoia

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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 […]

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 […]

The Open Side of Secrecy: Britain’s Intelligence and Security Committee

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] that they don’t want to, or are unable to, deal with the reality of that system. In their view of this country’s recent history there were no Wilson plots; Northern Ireland is ignored; Cathy Massiter was guilty of ‘moralising misrepresentations’; disinformation, I-ops and bureaucratic rivalries are ignored. Intelligence and security organisations are no more […]

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 […]

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