Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] my knowledge, MI6 did not block investigations in Kincora. Indeed, Craig Smellie supported the press briefings about Tara that I did in 1973.’ Smellie was the chief SIS officer in Northern Ireland and it does seem unlikely (at best) that Smellie would encourage press interest in Tara if SIS had an operational interest in […]
Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££
[PDF file]: […] government – which, at the time, many people put down to Wilson’s paranoia and his continuous skirmishing with the press. Not everyone will accept the authors’ analy sis or conclusions but there is sufficient evidence to make people go back and relive those events and wonder exactly what was going on and who was […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] the Army Estimates.’ (p. 54) In 1945 . . . ‘Despite the personal specificities of each history, a number of identifiable strands coalesced. Thus there was an SIS version of history, a Bletchley Park version of history, a Naval Intelligence version of history, a JIC version off history, an SOE version of history, and, […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] comments in brackets are mine.) Professor Norman Stone (historian) Sir John Webster (perhaps the Royal Navy Webster) George Young (presumably George Kennedy Young, former Deputy Chief of SIS) Sir Michael Howard Smith (Director-General of MI5) Cranley Onslow MP (former SIS officer) Ian Gow MP Charles Elwell (MI5) Mr Hanley (presumably Michael Hanley, some time […]