Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] copies to various people in the media known to have been interested in the story and the handful of politicians who had been active in the Wright/ MI5 story earlier in the year. The Independent got 4 copies. We didn’t tackle the attack on Fred Holroyd because he was on holiday and out of […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] In America, for example, this was reflected by Edward Epstein (one of Angleton’s most devoted followers) in his book Legend; in this country via the likes of MI5 channels like Chapman Pincher, the ‘Fourth Man’ episode, and the so-called Hollis affair. Golitsyn now has a book out, New Lies For Old (London 1984) written […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] the introduction of a bill under which it would become illegal to claim that any individual is an officer or agent of either the Security Service ( MI5) or of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). It was also made known that the publication of British Intelligence and Covert Action last year was considered provocative […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] 22 employees of the embassy to leave the country without hindrance? Hints from Ministers The then Home Secretary, Leon Brittan, was so unhappy with the performance of MI5 that he threatened a drastic reorganisation. Reliable press sources believe that the Security Service retaliated by spreading rumours about Brittan’s sex life, even producing anonymous fliers […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] terror groups either to be put into the hands of a special police unit attached to the Police National Intelligence Bureau, or to be turned over to MI5 and MI6…. this proposal might astonish some of our readers. But it is clear that Special Branch’s head office in London had failed to comprehend the […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] This happens this is allowed to happen because there is virtually no political control over the security organisations: when they fuck-up nothing happens to them. MI5 botch a surveillance of an IRA operation and £300 million’s worth of damage is done to the City of London; and nothing happens, no heads roll. […]
Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££
Organisation, History and Politics In the early years of the Thatcher decade, the radical or ‘new’ right was generally treated as though it was a united palace guard for libertarian Conservatism. More recently it has become clearer that the radical right in Britain was, at best, an ‘anti wet’ alliance between authoritarian/ nationalist and libertarian/radical […]
Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££
[…] A scuffle ensued among the exclusively male gathering, as a result of which the civil servant returned to London. The Counter Intelligence branch of the Secret Service, MI5, is now believed to be running the show in Northern Ireland after the removal of MI6’s top man in Ulster, David Wyatt. Mr Wyatt, a casualty […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America James Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Yale University Press, London and Yale, 1999, £19.95 The Haunted Wood: Soviet espionage in America – the Stalin era Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev Random House, New York, 1999, $30.00 So now we know: most of what the Republican right in the US, […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] little on 1952, by inference he was working as a technical expert for the British government in the UK, and just beginning to work on secondment with MI5. According to Wright’s autobiography, and everything else that has appeared about him, this can’t be him. Wright was a boffin, one of the men in white […]