Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££
[…] community in the United Kingdon believed that unorthodox methods and techniques were required in the war. The intervention of these groupings, which included Special Branch, military intelligence, MI5 and MI6, was uncoordinated. Much has been written about that period, some of it honest journalism, but most of it (emphasis added) propaganda inspired by the […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] date and agenda for next meeting of DPBAC; records of past meetings; related media articles and speeches. Website reflects increased openness of the D-notice system under Wilkinson. MI5 Data Protection Act Exemption Certificate http://cryptome.org/MI5-straw-gag.htm This certificate, signed by Jack Straw (then Home Secretary) on 22 July 2000, exempts MI5 from the subject access provisions […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] Miller, the former UDA intelligence officer who emerged earlier this year in the Sunday Times (22 and 29 March 1987) to reveal that he had been an MI5 agent inside the UDA. When he first contacted the Sunday Times it was the Ron Horn/UCA story he was most keen they should print. A third […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] ‘Squidgygate’ then became impatient with their proxies and started sending journalists taped copies of the conversation through the post. Naturally, once the story broke, suspicion fell on MI5. Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke told the House of Commons: ‘The security services are strictly controlled in their telephone tapping and I know of no evidence whatever […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] no-one chose them. That is why the FCO can produce specialists in the area. Secondly the ‘stans’, by which I mean principally Pakistan, used to come under MI5 (sometimes army officers seconded from the MOD) and the colonial office, which is again why SIS neglected things. Afghanistan was of interest because of India/Iran/Soviet Union […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] December 1984, p. 8. Document claims RUC, Army knew all about Kincora in 1974 — Ed Moloney and Andy Pollak, Irish Times, 25 June 1985, p. 7. MI5 knew about assault allegations, Kincora cover-up part of intelligence plot — Ed Moloney and Andy Pollak, Irish Times, 26 June 1985, p. 16. The queer card […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
Hollis again What with the opening of the KGB archives and the testimony of Oleg Gordievsky, you might be forgiven for thinking that the question, Was MI5 Director-General Roger Hollis a Soviet spy? had been answered conclusively and resoundingly ‘No’. You would be wrong – or so says the doyen of British espionage writers, […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 The Defence of the Realm The Authorised History of MI5 Christopher Andrew Page 134 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 London: Allen Lane, 2009, £30 Covering the same area as the Hennessy/Thomas book but with access to more recent MI5 documents, Andrew does at least refer to the dissenters named in the preceding […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: The Secret War Between the Wars MI5 in the 1920s and 1930s Kevin Quinlan Woodbridge (Suffolk): The Boydell Press, 2014, £30, h/b T his began as the author’s PhD thesis, based on the MI5 files of the interwar period, and it details some of their successes against the British left who were getting money […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] was not prepared simply to say no.’ (Implicitly: he never considered saying ‘yes’.) According to Cook: ‘The historian who compiled the report has had full access to MI5 and MI6 files’. This is not only dubious as the comments below by Gordon Brook-Shepherd show, it is also impossible to verify. Cook asserts that the […]
