Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] about the Provisional IRA’s historic turn, their recognition that military victory was impossible? There can be little doubt that one factor was the improved performance of the security forces, in particular of the intelligence and surveillance arms. So effective had they become that the journalist, Jack Holland, could write, with only slight exaggeration, that […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: Chameleo A strange but true story of invisible spies, heroin addiction and Homeland Security Robert Guffey London and New York: O/R Books, 2015, £11.00/$18.00, p/b http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/chameleo/ In 1989 Harlan Girard was going round the London media trying to interest them in his story. He got no takers but someone suggested Lobster – then one […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] the Shayler-Machon drama and the book Defending the Realm by Nick Fielding and Mark Hollingsworth. Nonetheless, familiar or not, this is a devastating critique of the British security services and the political system which is nominally in charge of them. The only agencies which come well out of this are regional Special Branches, who […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] star chamber where he wasn’t allowed to call his own witnesses, cross-examine anyone or to be legally represented.’ In letters to the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee and John Wadham of Liberty, who has been acting for him, Tomlinson alleged that SIS planned to assassinate the Serb leader Slobodan Milosevich in 1992 […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] seems 17 other people did as well. Some of Baker’s sources are hard to assess (see above). Someone, retired, ‘with connections to both the police and the security services’, takes Baker for a glass of wine in a ‘rather nondescript club’ and is warned in a phone call that he could be bankrupted by […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] in Liverpool is so great that there is an involvement by Special Branch because, and I believe I am right in quoting, it has implications for national security. I gave them specific items of information concerning Derek Hatton and other individuals in Liverpool. They went down, Hounam went down, and checked out the information […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] and evasive piece of work. The House of Lords debate on the Intelligence Services Bill, 9 December, 1993 Lord (Roy) Jenkins of Hillhead: ‘I experienced in the Security Service what I can best describe as an inherent lack of frankness, an ingrowing mono-culture, and a confidence-destroying tendency to engage in the most devasting internal […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] soon revealed (and confirmed years later in Alvin Snyder’s 1995 book, Warriors of Disinformation), that the first official transcript of Soviet air-to-ground communications distributed by our National Security Agency (NSA) had been purged of the Soviet fighter pilot’s declaration to his controller, ‘Now I will try my cannons .’ Axed also by our NSA, […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] said he had been an informant in this entire Bristol period, and had driven Jordan on his reconnaissance expeditions to the home of Colonel Baty, while the security services in one guise or another paid for the petrol and his time off work.(2) Jordan pleaded guilty at his trial. Patrick Brazil, the seaman and […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] invariably planned operations which, frankly, stood little chance of success… There was, too, a senseless bravado about the way they behaved which I felt often risked the security of the operations … (MI6) was operating in the modern world with 1930s attitudes and 1930s personnel…” (p72 Spycatcher) Cavendish goes into some detail about his […]
