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

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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)

[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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[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 […]

Six Moments of Crisis: inside British foreign policy by Gill Bennett

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] foreigners’. By contrast, Eden was ‘an Arabic speaker with a deep knowledge of Middle Eastern history and politics, and had a long association with Egypt’. So Harold Wilson grovelled in front of American President Lyndon Johnson at every opportunity? As Washington huffed and puffed over ‘East of Suez’, insisting Britain ought to stay, the […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] Party, their chief focus – were marginalised or ridiculed. 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 […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] bugging of Oliver’s phone that have nothing to do with call 76 Hougan, Secret Agenda, p. 115. The trick book included the names of CIA agent Ed Wilson and KCIA agent Tongsun Park, who allegedly arranged ‘trysts for the politically powerful’ at Park’s George Town Club, which the CIA may in turn have monitored […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] self-education course on the 1970s and the British Right. After the publication of issue 11, I had assumed that the major media would pick up the ‘ Wilson plots’ story and I went back to the library to continue reading about the British right.3 Looking back, it is extraordinary that Steve Dorrril and I […]

View from

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[…] I am reformatting parts of the early editions of Lobster and have reset issue 12, from 1986. Having produced Lobster 11, centrally about the plots against the Wilson government, Steve Dorril and I assumed that the major media would use our research and pursue the Wilson plots theme. So I went back to the […]

View from

Lobster Issue

[…] I am reformatting parts of the early editions of Lobster and have reset issue 12, from 1986. Having produced Lobster 11, centrally about the plots against the Wilson government, Steve Dorril and I assumed that the major media would use our research and pursue the Wilson plots theme. So I went back to the […]

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