New Labour Notes

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 […]

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Loose cuts and short ends

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 […]

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The International Centre of Free Trade Unionists in Exile

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

At the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of non-German workers, mostly from the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries, were stranded in Germany, while many thousands more were fleeing from areas overrun by Soviet forces. Most of these workers were anti-communist, anti-Soviet and anti-Russian; some had voluntarily collaborated with the Nazis, […]

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Crozier country: Free Agent: the unseen war 1941-1991

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] ‘The truth was told…. but not the whole truth of the still secret role of the CIA.’ Peter Preston, please note. In 1979 Crozier met to discuss MI5 with ‘a senior officer of MI5 who had just retired’ (probably Charles Elwell) (p. 144). Crozier is told about ‘an intellectually weakened organisation no longer prepared […]

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] as his one of his sub-agents. When Makgill died in October 1926, the agency was reorganised under the control of Baker White – and then incorporated into MI5 in 1931. There is plenty of archival evidence to show that under both Makgill and Baker White the IIB was used to undertake work and recruit […]

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A War of Words: a Cold War Witness

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] over in Langley, Virginia. ‘At a critical moment, an important meeting was held between Cabinet Secretary Norman Brook, Pat Dean representing the Foreign Office, the director of MI5, Mr (later Sir) Roger Hollis, and Norman Reddaway representing the IRD. At the end of it, Brook instructed Hollis to make available to the Foreign Office, […]

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Private Warriors

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

Ken Silverstein Verso, London (£19.00) and New York ($25.00), 2000 Ken Silverstein is co-editor of CounterPunch, a very good radical – left radical – newsletter in Washington (http://www. counterpunch.org/). This book is a group of essays centred round a central theme rather than an attempt to encompass the whole area of the relationship between the […]

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Denis Healey

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

Edward Pearce London: Little, Brown, 2002, £25, h/b.   Compared to the present crop of media-trained, PR-conscious, line-following, careerist pigmies who comprise the current Labour Cabinet, Denis Healey looks like a giant from a golden age. Before his well known roles as Minister of Defence and Chancellor of the Exchequer (during the Tory-induced inflation of […]

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Clippings Digest

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Northern Ireland excluded from new (minimal) rules on phone-tapping. (Irish News 16 December 1984) In the wake of the Cathy Massiter revelations about MI5 operations a temporary flood of information on activities like phone-tapping appeared. Those who have been tapped, or claim to have been tapped include: ASLEF members in […]

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JFK, the FBI and the Cambridge phone call

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

In 1976 Mary Ferrell discovered a curious CIA document, a telegram that had been sent from the Agency office in London to headquarters in Langley on 23 November 1963, the day after JFK was assassinated. The telegram reads as follows (blacked-out(1) matter shown by brackets, with suppositions in italic): EXPRESSIONS OF SORROW AND SYMPATHY RECEIVED […]

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