Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] bridges with the Republican Party. As the Democrats became radicalised by war in Vietnam, by environmentalism and feminism, by new sexual freedom and a permissive attitude towards drugs, the Republicans gained support from social conservatives and the evangelicals began what they saw as a crusade against godless hedonism and flagrant disregard for the divine […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
Lost plot After Lobster 35 I received a long letter from John Pilger, followed by a revised version of it, complaining about my review of his recent book, Hidden Agendas in 35. With the second version came a note asking me to publish his letter without comment. I replied that I was happy to publish … Read more
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] intelligence community – as well as Source #69, who is a retired official of the United States Customs Department and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (now the Drug Enforcement Administration), and Source #70, who is a former Southeast Asian Border Police officer, and Source #71, who is a retired CIA official […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] about ‘George’ is that he is interested in the Naga people of the Himalayas. Both writers should have informed us of this key player’s long record of drugs offences, and his reputation as a ‘grass’ after making deals with both Police and Customs. Nevertheless, ‘George’ tells an interesting tale. While some members of this […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] Neither Roy Hattersley, nor Anthony Howard, who reviewed this in the Daily Telegraph, noticed (or thought worth mentioning) a major feature of Falkender’s behaviour: she was doing drugs, speed (purple hearts, named by Donoughue), sleepers and tranquillisers. Donoughue shows that Wilson’s doctor, Joseph Stone, certainly gave her some of them. These days we know […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] in America. It covers everything from the apparently trivial – campaigns to get kids still in primary school to snitch on their parents if they are using drugs – through to Cointelpro and all its successor projects. Redden discusses, among many other things: a law enforcement system dependent upon criminals licensed to operate by […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] campaigners however, the book has less to offer. In many of the topics, such as those covering the Calvi murder, the plots against Harold Wilson, the CIA drugs connection etc, anyone who has been following the topics will feel that some of the more obvious and important texts have not been referred to. The […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] prostitution: William McGrath, Van Straubenzee, Clifford Smyth Wilson’s affair with Marcia Williams (Secretary) in Moscow Finance: Maudling, Thorpe, Wilson, Short etc. Fianna Fail: Charles Haughey – IRA/ drugs link. Bill Fuller ‘Old (illegible) Hotel’ Norman Frank Butler/Sammy Smyth UDA Jackie Watson: Billy Hull LAW funds Paisley: transfer of funds to USA, Australia and S.Africa […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
A spook, moi? One of the formative experiences of my youth – and we’re talking early 1960s here, beatnik days, when wearing a narrow leather tie was pretty hip – was going to the Mound in Edinburgh on Sunday nights. The Mound is like Hyde Park Corner in London, a place where local by-laws allow … Read more
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
Patriots not sneaks After a year of New Labour I feel beholden to write something on this subject, but what is there worth saying that isn’t blindingly and depressingly obvious and predictable? Jack Straw, who took over as Home Secretary, and thus formally as the boss of MI5, is determined to sedate any sleeping dogs … Read more
