Classified: Secrecy and the state in modern Britain by Christopher Moran

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to do anything when prime minister Lloyd George took van loads of official (and thus secret) papers home while writing his memoirs. Later PMs, Eden, Churchill and Wilson followed this example. After the war we get accounts of the familiar controversies surrounding the publication of the diaries of Richard Crossman, Harold Wilson’s memoirs, the […]

View from Lob 73

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[…] espousing some of the conspiracy theories. Trump If you are curious about Trump, John K Wilson’s Trump unveiled: exposing the bigoted billionaire is the place to start.7 Wilson has apparently read everything about or by Donald Trump and has produced both a critical biography and a 4 David Brock, Blinded by the Right (New […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] didn’t know that the Iraqis had scrapped their WMDs.’ Innocents abroad? Belatedly I flipped through a copy of the memoir of the former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson, Fair Game (Simon and Schuster, 2007). Plame Wilson had her CIA cover blown by the Bush regime because her diplomat husband hadn’t gone along with the […]

TO CATCH A SPY: How the Spycatcher Affair Brought MI5 in from the Cold by Tim Tate

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] more that when Peter Wright’s book Spycatcher was published, I was so focused on the sections which supported Colin Wallace’s story of secret state machinations against the Wilson government, I barely noticed Wright’s Soviet-spies-in-MI5 story which has been so thoroughly analysed, retold and updated by Tate. And what a story it is. To recap […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] access – but when I had access to it and initially skimmed across its sections, she was using it to attack/critique the treatment of her and Harold Wilson, in the books of Joe Haines (Glimmers of Twilight) and Bernard Donoughue (Downing Street Diary). The fascist plot to take the White House in 1933 I […]

1976 anmd all that

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[…] and Alec Cairncross, Goodbye Great Britain: the 1976 IMF Crisis (Yale University Press, 1992) p. 70. 4 Bernard Donoughue, Prime Minister: The Conduct of Policy under Harold Wilson & James Callaghan (London: Jonathan Cape, 1987) p. 94. 5 2 and also by the IMF official in charge of the IMF team in London – […]

Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

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[PDF file]: […] British Embassy in Dublin. He became an Assistant Under Secretary at the Northern Ireland Office in 1975 to replace Michael Cudlipp, who had been appointed by Harold Wilson the previous year as information adviser to Merlyn Rees, the Northern Ireland Secretary 4 See Document 1 in the separate Wallace Appendices file 5 5 report. […]

The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of Public Information to be able to render a seemingly spontaneous speech ‘within 5 minutes’ at any venue in order to agitate for US war aims. Woodrow Wilson pronounced that the US was entering WWI for this purpose. Wilson’s attorney general A. Mitchell Palmer led the sweeping police raids against political dissidents between 1919-1920. […]

Lobster review: 1992 guide to intelligence periodics

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[…] is the co-author with Anthony Su1nn1ers of Honeytrnp: 11,e Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolso11, 1987). Dorril and Ran1say l1avc rece11tly E published, SMAR!: Wilson & tire Secret State (London: Fot1rtb Estate Lin11ted, 1991). INTELLIGENCE PERIODICALS LOBSTER – a journal of parapolitics 87 been reprinted; some are out of priI1t and […]

The Atlantic Semantic

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] lieutenant’s woman,’ The Times, 19 November 1981. 12 ‘Social Democratic Alliance statement,’ The Times, 29 September 1975. 13 Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril, Lobster 11 (1986), ‘ Wilson, MI5 and the Rise of Thatcher: Covert Operations in British Politics 19741978,’ appendix 6: ‘Examples of political psy ops targets 1973/4 – non Army origin’. 14 […]

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