In The Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Britain and Saudi Arabia which led to allegations of massive corruption. The investigation was closed down by the Blair government when the Saudis threatened to end their intelligence relationship with Britain if it was pursued.4 He gave hundreds of thousands of pounds to the Conservative Party and made a donation of £20 million to […]

White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate Story by Phil Stanford

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] political sleaze in America’s capital, as well as being an exemplar of Peter Dale Scott’s original conception of parapolitics as being the ‘dark quadrant where CIA, private intelligence operations and Mafia operations overlap.’ They’re all here, but centrally it isn’t actually certain who was running the honey trap. If this isn’t ‘the real Watergate […]

Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller

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[PDF file]: […] recovered, we do know from Reynolds that Morton recommended that Britain provide assistance in the training of Sri Lankan special forces and in training and reorganising their intelligence apparatus. As Miller points out, this involved providing assistance to a regime whose troops and police were routinely torturing and killing Tamil prisoners. Morton returned to […]

White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘the iron curtain’, e.g. how many missiles the Soviets had, etc., was unknown and the ‘danger’ belief was just viable. By 1960 it was clear to US intelligence and military that the Soviet Union was a nuclear minnow, compared to the US. That ‘danger’ was the rationalisation for the CIA’s activities. There was no […]

The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil by Charlotte Dennett

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[PDF file]: […] £21.99, $27.95 (US) Robin Ramsay The author’s father died in a plane crash – flight 3804 – in 1947 in Ethiopia. He was working for the Central Intelligence Group – which was about to be renamed the CIA – and was America’s leading undercover officer in the Middle East. The author, a journalist, describes […]

Well, how did we get here?

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[PDF file]: […] the British state clung to the pretensions of world power status, with all that entailed by way of overseas capital investment and expenditure on diplomatic, military and intelligence activities. The ‘bias’ in favour of the overseas lobby detected by Strange wasn’t so much hidden as so taken for granted as to be invisible. In […]

‘Nobody told us we could do this’

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] at Ditchley Park, in November 2009, under the auspices of The Institute of Government. A selection of academics, civil servants, politicians and the chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee were invited to attend. Following this event O’Donnell drafted ‘A Compendium of the Laws, Conventions and Constitutional Underpinning of the UK System of Government’. Apparently […]

Phil Shenon – a cruel and shocking twist

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] much truth as possible’, it isn’t just the Castro Cuban commies who must be scrutinised, but everyone who associated with the alleged assassin, including the anti-Castro Cubans, intelligence officers and others who became entwined in the assassination story. It is pure speculation on Shenon’s part that Oswald even read the news reports of Castro’s […]

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