Beaumont novel copy

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[…] has given enough of his life in service to a state that appears unable to defend its most basic interests. (p. 81) Field officer Sharman resigns from SIS, becomes a consultant/researcher and stumbles across the traces of a Russian spy and influence network based on Oxford University, involving some of the people he knew […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

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[PDF file]: […] 1688-1914 (London: Longman, 1993), pp. 306-15. 3 1 As far as the first of these is concerned, the best way to approach it is through the analy sis developed by two historians, Ronald Robinson and Jack Gallagher, in a famous article called ‘The Imperialism of Free Trade’. This appeared in 1953 in the distinguished […]

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] corroborates the general view of their brilliance. This stands out particularly by contrast with the stupidity of Britain’s main overseas espionage organisation at that time, MI6 ( SIS), staffed by ‘men of moderate abilities, drawn into the organization by the lure of playing out a pastiche of Kipling’s “Great Game”, and often after earlier […]

Colin Wallace and the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] following paragraphs are from chapter 3 of that report.6 para 391 We are satisfied that it was not until 1980 that the RUC Special Branch, MI5, the SIS and Army Intelligence became aware that McGrath had been sexually abusing residents at Kincora, and they learnt of that when it became the 4 . One-time […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] outfit, Veruscript, whose founders are Russian.1 9 Is it a front for Russian intelligence? Not that anyone can demonstrate; but that didn’t prevent people – including former SIS chief Richard Dearlove – resigning from the forum because… well, just in case, I suppose.2 0 And Professor Andrew resigned from the board of the publishing […]

Newsinger Uproar

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[…] the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment and persecution of the likes of Peter Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Agnes ‘ Sis’ Cunningham and others. It showed how the US state went after the folk music lefties as part of its campaign against the Communist Party (CP). At […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] by a body-double during her brief reappearance on the sidewalk, as she appeared to be behaving in a totally normal way. The traditional arsenal of amateur photoanaly sis was unleashed, with before-and-after comparisons of Mrs Clinton’s fingers, gait, hair, weight and ears all being relied upon to support this theory of a stand-in.2 The […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 1 – the early years

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] that were, at the very least, covertly approved by the government of the United Kingdom. Stephen Dorril’s book on MI6 has a chapter that details how both SIS and GCHQ provided what was, at times, significantly more than discrete assistance.3 The entire cadre of Stirling’s assistant commanders in Watchguard appear to have been current […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] though the extant evidence; and there’s a lot of it. En passant he writes, ‘I am a friend and former colleague of Christopher Steele’. Since Steele was SIS, is Snell saying he was, too?16 Flag-waving On Times Radio on 31 May the current leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, described Reform UK as […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Telegraph Jeremy Warner commented: ‘Over the last ten years, the has been pretty much wrong about everything of substance. It failed to see the financial cri sis coming, and it failed to anticipate the eurozone debt crisis, having essentially become a cheerleader for integrationist ambitions of monetary union. It then proceeded to become […]

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