Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

[…] Dept. Head of Station 1959 FO 1960 Counsellor, Washington, Head of Station 1973 Chief of MI6 1977 Retired 1978 Fellow of All Souls, Oxford 1979 Recalled by Thatcher: Sec. and Int. Co-ordinator, Northern Ireland 1980 retired PERKINS, Col. Harold (Perks) Prague University Merchant Navy Officer (Master Mariner) Owner of a steel mill in Poland […]

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Shorts: James Rusbridger. Illuminati. Gordievsky. Cavendish

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] was the output of these disinformation programmes (a couple of examples are reprinted in this volume) that a tape recording in which the voices of Reagan and Thatcher had been edited together to apparently show them discussing a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union was attributed to the KGB. In the event the tape […]

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Joseph K and the spooky launderette

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] resign; he would not be prosecuted. This agreement was reached just before Pat and I received Zander’s first phone-call. But the Prime Minister was no gentleman. Mrs Thatcher had returned from holiday on the Tuesday and was informed about Ponting. She decided to renege on the agreement Ponting thought he had and nail him […]

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New Labour tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] Murdoch three name checks; and John Rentoul of The Independent on Sunday managed ‘10 brief mentions’ in his big Blair book. Was it any different with Margaret Thatcher? ‘Hugo Young’s much-praised book on Margaret Thatcher, One of Us, reserves one minor, passing reference to Murdoch,’ writes Oborne. Will, the political chroniclers be more outspoken […]

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New Labour news

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

BERR In a profile of John Hutton, the new Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Hutton said that Labour ‘is the natural party of business’,(1) another benchmark (or, in Corinne Souza country, ‘rebranding’) in the shift from old to New Labour. For it was Harold Wilson’s boast that he had made Labour … Read more

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Kitson, Kincora and counter-insurgency in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] of unlawful activities by members of the Security Forces in Ulster in the early 1970s initiated an RUC and Garda inquiry, is currently in correspondence with Mrs Thatcher. He has pointed out to her that the Ulster Director of Public Prosecutions’ statement that “there was insufficient evidence to bring charges against anyone” is simply […]

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Travesty: The trial of Slobodan Milosevic

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] to identify his politics. Three years ago David Aaronovitch wrote about him. (14)Aaronovitch noted that Laughland is European Director of the European Foundation whose patron is Margaret Thatcher, and concluded by describing Laughland (and his associates) as ‘right-wing anti-state libertarians and isolationists, suspicious of any foreign entanglements’. Aaronovitch’s description above isn’t entirely inaccurate, though […]

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The Pinay Circle

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] intelligence services including Count de Marenches, ex Director of the SDECE; Temple Franks and Nicholas Elliot of MI6. “Crozier, Elliot and Franks recently (ie 1982) visited Mrs Thatcher at Chequers for discussions and work.” Crozier’s group designed to ensure victory for Thatcher, Strauss, and to combat terrorism, etc. The group can furnish articles, access […]

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The View from the Bridge. British American Project. Teddy Taylor MP. New Labour

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] interesting for two reasons. One is precisely this ‘tip’ at a time when most of the British electorate had little idea who John Major was and Mrs. Thatcher showed no signs of quitting. The second is the author of this piece, David Moller. The CIA’s links to the American Reader’s Digest during the cold […]

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Elvis has left the building: Political Perspectives on the Fall of Polly Peck

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] sections of the British government, and particularly to MI6, the department charged with protecting Britain’s foreign interests. Target Heseltine? Throughout 1990, the then British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, was fighting for her political life. Dissatisfaction with the Poll Tax, which she had pushed through against the advice of many in her own Cabinet, had […]

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