Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] illustration of the international dimension of parapolitical manipulation represented by the Circle’s promotional activities. It is becoming more and more apparent that the treatment reserved for Harold Wilson at the hands of the intelligence services was only the UK end of an international phenomenon. Around 1973-75 a surprising number of governments were targeted by […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] March 13 conveyed the seriousness as well accuracy of the coup plot allegations. On that day The Guardian’s new political editor Patrick Wintour gave us nothing on Wilson, but a full page on the former leader of the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire under the headline: ‘I should have been a Trappist monk.’ Ah, […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] historical account of British nuclear forces. Milan Rai, Tactical Trident, the Rifkind Doctrine and the Third World, Drava Papers, London, 1994. Rai references the quotations fully. Andrew Wilson, ‘Deadline Midnight’, The Observer, 11 April 1992 Quoted in a paper by William M Arkin and Andrew Burrows, British Nuclear Weapons in the Falklands, published by […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] the election – a coterie of like-minded MI6 officers and Tory party workers had taken matters into their own hands. 13 Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay: Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (London: Fourth Estate, 1991), p. 272 14 Oona King MP (Lab, Bethnal Green and Bow), ‘Losers win’, the Guardian, 18 November 2000 […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] deal of arm-twisting from LBJ, and despite Wilson’s utter dependence on the US at this point for financial assistance to defend the value of the pound, Harold Wilson refused to send even a token force to Vietnam. (Apologists for Maurice Oldfield hint that he was instrumental in keeping the British state out of Vietnam.) […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] in the intelligence response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait……’ Let us look at this ‘response’. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph on 16 September 2001, Colonel John Hughes- Wilson, stated: ‘……I worked in British military intelligence before, and during the Gulf War. We failed to predict the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. After the war….. inevitably […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
Footy and me I did two things with Paul Foot. Over two days, he, Colin Wallace and I copy-edited the manuscript of what became Foot’s Who Framed Colin Wallace? Foot was impressively objective about his own writing, accepting editing suggestions on their merits. During a lunch break he said to me: ‘What’s a bright guy […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
The debate about whether the British should have a military presence East of Suez seemed to have been settled under the Wilson-Callaghan Government in the 1960s and 1970s. The process of withdrawal started with the independence of India and Pakistan (widely celebrated in the UK media recently on its sixtieth anniversary), was confirmed by the […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
Colin Crawford. London: Pluto Press, 2003, £14.99, p/back When World-in-Action and Tribune journalist David Boulton published his excellent book, The UVF, 1966-73, (Torc Books, 1974) he bemoaned a near absence of valuable books and journal articles on Loyalism. In contrast to their Republican counterparts, Loyalists do not have a substantive support base overseas; nor […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] the cold war. Willan’s Puppet Masters shows this process at work in post-war Italy, while the role of J. J. Angleton in fomenting right-wing discontent with the Wilson governments points to a CIA connection with the plots to destabilise the 1964-70 and 1974-79 Labour administrations (see Peter Wright, Spycatcher: the Candid Autobiography of a […]
