[…] as you would expect, did – when eventually asked – deny the assertion in Lobster 11 that Searchlight was being run by, or with the co-operation of, MI5. The only other people who appear to be as suspicious of Gable and Searchlight as we are, are the anarchists associated with Anarchy magazine, and the […]
[…] 26. The same river twice John Hope had an interesting piece in Intelligence and National Security Vol. 9 No. 4 (1994), called ‘Surveillance or Collusion? Maxwell Knight, MI5 and the British Fascisti’. This bears a striking resemblance to the Knight sections of Hope’s piece in Lobster 22, ‘Fascism, the Security Service and the Curious […]
Web update Jane Affleck Thanks to Terry Hanstock and David Turner for contributions. Comments and details of interesting websites are welcome: my email address is 101521.3515 @compuserve.com Freedom Of Information Campaign for Freedom of Information http://www.cfoi.org.uk ‘The Campaign for Freedom of Information campaigns against unnecessary secrecy and for greater public access to official and other […]
[…] happen when they retire, or at an earlier stage. For example, David Shayler was found employment in one of the London-based management consultancies when he first left MI5. (9) In the lobbying industry, one of the most influential was Major General Nigel Gribbon, who is now in his eighties. The General ended his career […]
Colin Wallace On the Colin Wallace front, the big event since issue 17 has been Paul Foot’s book, Who Framed Colin Wallace? (Macmillan, 1989). With this book Paul Foot has re-researched and synthesised all the previous work and produced what is likely to remain the definitive account of Wallace’s biography, his allegations and – most […]
[…] house of cards, the addition of more and more cards does not make the structure more stable. ‘The secret state’ is defined in the Introduction as embracing MI5, MI6 and Special Branch; but the paucity of verifiable information about these organizations obliges our authors to bring in villains who are more visible. This means […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the taste and good sense to publish my Conspiracy Theories and The Rise of New Labour; and will publish a volume from Lobster contributor John Burnes on MI5 this year. So, yes, this is a shameless plug. However Nixon’s book is really rather good. Though neither a beginner’s guide nor a comprehensive summary of […]
See also: Part 1: British Fascism 1974-92 (Lobster 23) Part 2: British Fascism 1974-92 (II) (Lobster 24) Part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II) (Lobster 26) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) ‘Let a thousand initiatives bloom…’ While the piece in Lobster 24 was a (necessary) digression, treating of individual careers and various lurid allegations, […]
[…] Africans, his is the first such memoir I have seen in which the covert world is shown to play a significant part in colonial life. Smith portrays MI5 working with the Colonial Office, bugging, tapping, intercepting mail — as well as producing inept anti-communist propaganda. Then as independence loomed, the Colonial Office/MI5 team were […]
