Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] the BAP, Gloria Craig. Twenty-six years in the Ministry of Defence when Robertson became New Labour Defence Secretary in 1997, she is now its director of general security and safety. Her former MoD colleague, Jonathan Day, moved with Robertson to NATO HQ in Brussels to become director of his private office. He was signed […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

The Strange Case of Patrick Daly, MI5 agent

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 […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

U.S Army Intelligence mind control experimentation

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] was LSD. The plan’s main thrust was the ‘method of approach to prospective volunteers’ who were to be selected from official personnel, based on their records and security clearance information. It called upon the proper code of conduct for volunteers, requiring them to sign a security statement. The volunteers were to be examined physically […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

The British Watergate

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] Labour Government. In Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher: Covert Operations in British Politics 1974-76 using as their starting point information from former members of the security services and the British Army, and, in particular, certain accounts of the period written by Colin Wallace, the authors demonstrate that the outlines of a series […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

Plotting for Peace and War

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] of fading aristocrats and eccentric M.Ps or forces which were much more powerfully rooted in the structure of the British State? What was their relationship with the security and intelligence services? Why did Churchill feel the need to have his own intelligence adviser, Sir Desmond Morton? Costello seems to believe that the pro-appeasement faction […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

Lockerbie, the octopus and the Maltese double cross

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] begun to reveal one of the ugliest political corruptions of recent times. This Byzantine tale is further evidence of just how powerful and ruthless the American-led international security apparatus — the ‘octopus’ — has become. From the start there have been many awkward and unanswered questions about the Lockerbie affair. Why were the widely-signalled […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

Spooks. Hollis. Tomlinson

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 […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair

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 […]

Splinter Factor

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] an essay by Richard Aldrich of Salford University, one of the small but growing numbers of British academics trying to incorporate the activities of the intelligence and security services into post-war British history. In his essay on the Special Operations Executive (SOE) after the end of the Second World War, Aldrich writes that ‘the […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

New Labour Notes

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] Smith (1992-4) and Special Adviser to Jack Cunningham. In 1997 she became Chair of the Atlantic Council and she has since been appointed to the Intelligence and Security Committee.(4) The SIS-John Smith connection extends a little further. John Smith’s widow, Lady Smith, was appointed to the SIS-front organisation, the Hakluyt Foundation. Baroness Smith has […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

Accessibility Toolbar