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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 44) Winter 2002 Last| Contents| Next Issue 44 Spook PR Corinne Souza Public relations, more usually referred to these days as 'communications', is a method used by organisations to explain themselves or issues, or sell a product/message/strategy. To create/manipulate their audiences' various external environments so that these can prevail, sophisticated organisations firstly recognise competitor or negative PR; secondly, they counter it. The means by which they do so include tactics such as photo-opportunities, branding, viral marketing and local spokespersons. These tactics have been used to devastating effect by al-Qaida. Its communications campaign has been textbook- identical to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 164 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-11.htm
... first was a closing statement, even if the new chief cleverly made it look like an opening one.1 In much the same way as the influence of 'big oil' is in decline because, with the exception of Washington, everybody else recognised the environment debate, so too has 'big' espionage collapsed. The last of the Cold War spook agencies with leading brand status to topple in ignominy like the rest of them was SIS: in its case because of the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq, and allegations of complicity in torture, rendition and other issues. The condemnation of spook behaviour, led by activists, some journalists and politicians, and some supporting 'silent lobbying' ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 140 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-120.pdf
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 1) September 1983 Last| Contents| Next Issue 1 2. Spooks- U.K.Freedom and the Security Services- a Labour Party Discussion Document (£ 1.50 plus postage from The Labour Party, 150 Walworth Road, London, SE17 1JT) With this the Labour Party has taken a significant step towards the public recognition that, as far as the spook industry is concerned, the view of this society long held by its left-wing is fundamentally correct. Coups, bugging, surveillance, wiretapping, Special Branch, moles- the first 60% of this reads like a precis of State Research.(With some conspicuous omissions: Agee/ ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 125 - 01 Sep 1983 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue01/lob01-02.htm
... apportionment of blame. This has served to obfuscate one of the real problems: over the years 'intelligence' has come to be defined by separate 'products' such as weapons inspection, which have a predetermined objective, when 'good' espionage can be exclusive, but is holistic, never singular. Other obfuscation includes the threat to government, including spooks, posed by 'do-it-yourself' diplomacy and/or justice: e.g. the campaigns mounted by Ken Bigley's family, prior to his execution in Iraq, to secure his release; or that of hotelier John Ward following the murder of his daughter Julie in Kenya. These personal tragedies have been presented in a vacuum, when the reality is ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 116 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-14.htm
5. Spooks [Lobster #22 (Nov 1991)]
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 22) November 1991 Last| Contents| Next Issue 22 Spooks Stephen Dorril See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks "Who's Who" (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in 'Inside Intelligence' (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who's Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Below is a list of spooks, both dead and alive, I have spotted over the last eighteen months. Full biographical details will be published in an updated Spooks Who's Who. (C)= controversial. Assessment based on career details. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 111 - 01 Nov 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue22/lob22-07.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 42) Winter 2001/2 Last| Contents| Next Issue 42 Spooks and the House of Commons An interesting piece by Mark Hollingsworth appeared in Punch of 23 May-5 June 2001, 'Spooks in the House', on intelligence and security personnel who become MPs. Some of the material was familiar but less well known were Raymond Fletcher, and Le Cercle. Fletcher was a Labour MP who was witch-hunted by MI5 as a KGB asset when really an MI6 agent. New information on Le Cercle (aka the Pinay Circle: see Lobster 17) from Hollingsworth is the role of former MI6 officer Geoffrey Tantum as Le Cercle UK secretary and Jonathan Aitken's ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 95 - 01 Dec 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue42/lob42-19.htm
... what could have been a new dominion: moral secular authority that did not segmentalise, over the vast unconquered empire of a zillion minds. All this potential was trashed when Prime Minister Blair, and the political cadre alongside him, turned parts of this country's state machine into a badly fitting condom for America'sdick. Against this background, the country's spooks were expected to rehabilitate their profession and attract appropriate applicants. Government rhetoric was, and remains, that it is important to concentrate on the future since there is no point lamenting that which is done proactive PR while the spooks were abandoned to the reactive lowlands: recruiting from the very communities which were not happy with the idea ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 90 - 01 Dec 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue50/lob50-34.htm
... was suspicious-- something that has been disposed of, I believe, by the Katz and Norton-Tayor article. I never met Rusbridger but enjoyed his letters and shared his lack of regard for the intelligence and security services. His disparaging critics on the right, however, were almost certainly correct in claiming that he had few sources within the spook community. His The Intelligence Game (I.B.Tauris, 1991) was an amusing and witty read, but showed few signs of clandestine sources. Rusbridger would have been amused to learn that since his death he has been reported to have been writing books on the Hilda Murrell murder (private correspondence), autoerotic techniques (Independent [news] ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 84 - 01 Jun 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue27/lob27-05.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 36) Winter 1998/9 Last| Contents| Next Issue 36 Old spooks' tales John Loftus is probably best known in this country for his The Belarus Secret (Penguin 1983). His latest, The Secret War against the Jews, contains the largest number of new allegations, and alleged revelations about the post-war era, of any book I have read. However, many of these new claims are sourced to 'interview with old spook'. Loftus (and co-author Mark Aarons) claim to have interviewed hundreds of elderly, unidentified, retired intelligence officers for the information in the book. Though this is deeply unsatisfactory, it is nonetheless ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 81 - 01 Dec 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue36/lob36-02.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 5) August 1984 Last| Contents| Next Issue 5 Spooks UK De LAMBRAY Gay News (29th September 1983) carried a short article on Vikki De Lambray (formerly David Christian Lloyd-Gibbon), famous gay socialite, convicted High Society art thief, and apparent MI5 tempter/temptress. The article notes Lambray's brief sexual relationship, in 1982, with Sir James Dunnett, former Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence, and with Captain Anatoli Zotov, former Soviet Naval attache. The affair was probed by MI5 for possible security leaks. Sir James is interesting in that he was at the Ministry of Defence from the arrival of British ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 78 - 01 Aug 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue05/lob05-06.htm
