Wallace etc

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] Maurice Tugwell said: ‘Mooney had his own agenda. He reported to this extraordinary Foreign Office set-up that was run by Howard Smith, who later became head of MI5, in Belfast…It was the liaison office between the Foreign Office and the Northern Ireland situation. And whilst he (Mooney) kept the General Officer Commanding briefed he […]

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Kincoragate

Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

[…] engage both Protestant and Republican forces. With 90% of the RUC Protestant, the Army saw that it couldn’t be relied on for intelligence on its own community. MI5 officers were called in to sort out intelligence gathering. At this time Army Intelligence were “strictly forbidden to give information to the RUC.” (6) Even though […]

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Stalin’s granny, Christopher Andrew and the Cold War

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] criminals and demanding, effectively, a political show-trial. At the same time they have hypocritically called for the release of a real mass-murderer, General Pinochet. Disappointingly, the exiled MI5 whistle-blower, David Shayler, has added his tuppenyworth to the tabloid calls to ‘string ‘er up’, prompting the suspicion that he is more like Peter Wright (a […]

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At Her Majesty’s Secret Service: The Chiefs of Britain’s Intelligence Agency, MI6

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] in those sections you are getting ‘the real inside story’. Somewhere along the way, for example, I have acquired the idea that his second and third books, MI5: A Matter of Trust and MI6 were both something like in-house histories, given – edited no doubt – to Allason in the great spook rivalries of […]

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Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Dissent

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] Two possible explanations come to mind. One, he had been much involved in the Ulster troubles as Northern Ireland Secretary. Then as Home Secretary, and responsibility for MI5, he had to deal with the IRA mainland bombing campaign. Two, he had a long record of seeking to bring Nazi war criminals to justice and […]

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Updating and Ongoing

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] Director of the Center for Scientific Anomalies Research, PO Box 1052, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106-1052, USA. The Red Menace I thought my piece about the CPGB and MI5 (in Lobster 25) was something of a bombshell. In the event it turned out to be a damp squib. However, Laurens Otter wrote to me: ‘Your […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] The spy caught up in his own web of intrigue’, Sunday World, 31 May 1987, ‘Garda “Spy” Now A Hero’, Sunday World, May 3, 1987, and ‘The MI5 Plot to Smear Paisley’, Sunday World, May 17 1987.) Occasionally his name would appear in the Sunday Times on small bits. This all changed when he […]

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The Green Anarchist/GAndALF Case

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] Selwood, is the only serving judge who is a member of the Armed Forces. In his evidence, the police officer in charge of the case admitted that MI5 were involved. The prosecution’s view of Green Anarchist was that it became dangerous with the issue in which agent provocateur Tim Hepple was first published. Hepple […]

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Training other people’s police forces

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] training that we know even less about is the training of foreign Special Branch and intelligence agents. Security training is arranged through the Metropolitan Special Branch and MI5. Courses are also run by the Defence Intelligence Staff at Ashford, Kent. SAVAK agents were trained in England, probably at Ashford. More sensitive training has been […]

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Elvis has left the building: Political Perspectives on the Fall of Polly Peck

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] the clearing banks had been allowed to become more adventurous in their investment policy. The Bank of England added weight to the position. Cuckney was an ex- MI5 officer. (5) He had also worked at Farnham Castle, a government centre for intelligence briefing, from 1974-84. Before that, he was attached to the Crown Agency […]

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