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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 34) Winter 1998 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 34 Our Secret Servants: the Shayler affair Things had been going rather well for the British security and intelligence services in the 1990s. Under pressure from the Wright-Wallace-Massiter revelations of the 80s, they had conceded a notional form of parliamentary accountability with the creation of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With members who either knew nothing about the subject, or who, like chair Tom King, had been part of the system as a minister, said ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 38) Winter 1999 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 38 Defending the Realm: MI5 and the Shayler Affair Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding Andre Deutsch, London, 1999 17.99 At one level this whole Shayler affair is quite odd. For Shayler is the quintessential, contemporary, football-mad, New Labour-oriented, a-political technocrat- someone who can use the word 'modern' without blushing and putting it in scare quotes. (Shayler's complaints about MI5 can be seen in his submission to the Cabinet Office Review of ...
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... ) Winter 2003 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 46 Defending the Realm: Inside MI5 and the War on Terrorism Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding London: Andre Deutsch, 2003, p/b 8.99 An updated and expanded version of Defending the Realm: MI5 and the Shayler Affair which was reviewed in Lobster 38, this account of MI5's adjustment to the post Cold War world is one of the best books on the UK's intelligence services, up there with Stephen Dorril's MI6 book, Paul Lashmar and James Oliver's book on IRD and Richard ...
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... 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 he comes across. When former MI5 officer, David Shayler, turned up bearing bad news about MI5, Straw bolted for respectability, proving a worthy inheritor of the Labour tradition of grovelling towards our secret servants exemplified by Merlyn Rees in the Callaghan Government. David Aaronovitch in the Independent on Sunday (9 April 1998) ...
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... look like an idiot. (And, of course, their budgets are increased.) Everything you need to know about out politicians' relationship with the security services is expressed by the fact that they – the politicians – refused to even listen to what Machon and Shayler had to say. As did the Intelligence and Security Committee. Oversight? Overlook, more like it. As always happens, the system then tries to shoot the messenger bearing the bad news. When it comes to this, the system springs into life and ...
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... no-one from the authorities was present. Many members of the Labour government had been very critical of, and voted against the OSA 1989 because it allowed the prosecution of whistleblowers, but a Labour Attorney General consented to the prosecution of the author Tony Geraghty, Wylde and Shayler. Nick Fielding of the Sunday Times said that most of the debate was taking place in the courts and Parliament was left behind in the debate, the government refusing to discuss secrecy issues. A free press was the last resort for getting allegations out, David ...
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... wrote to the ISC Chairman on 8th October establishing the inquiry's terms of reference....' This what you are allowed to do.... While the ISC were being invited to look at Mitrokhin and the way he was handled by MI6, messrs Shayler and Tomlinson, the two most important defectors from the British security agencies since Philby, were in exile in one case and in jail in the other. While Shayler was sitting in a French jail the House of Commons had its first debate on the work of ...
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... As the journalist, along with Nick Fielding, who first reported David Shayler's revelations about MI5 in the Mail on Sunday in 1997, I would like to set the record straight on your piece in Lobster 36 ('Peter's Friends'?) I have remained close to David Shayler and Annie Machon, his girlfriend and also a former MI5 officer, since we first broke the story. Consequently, I can clarify the issue of whether David or Annie possessed or knew of 'concrete evidence' that senior Labour ministers had 'worked for the Security Services ...
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... . Number one on the list was the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group which, we are told, is trying to overthrow Colonel Gaddafy's regime. That name might ring a bell because this is the group, an al-Qaeda affiliate we are told, which, according to David Shayler, was paid by MI6 to try to assassinate Colonel Gaddafy. But this was back in the days when Gaddafy was 'the mad dictator', some time funder of the IRA and head of the regime which organised the Lockerbie bombing. But the great engine of ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 44) Winter 2002 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 44 Web update Jane Affleck Many thanks to Terry Hanstock for contributions. Comments and contributions to 101521.3515@compuserve.com Shayler case and human rights David Shayler went on trial at the Old Bailey in October/ November 2002 for disclosing information and documents relating to security and intelligence, under s1(1) and 4(1) of the Official Secrets Act 1989. During the trial he was not able to utilise a public interest defence (previously ruled ...
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