Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] with internal subversion, with Northern Ireland serving as a case study. As Peter Taylor points out in his book on the Stalker affair, it was unlikely that MI5, whose C3 section was responsible for vetting the police, would have allowed him to get this far if there had been a skeleton in his cupboard. […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] first place, Wright never did allege that the Service plotted against the Wilson government. He alleged that certain members of the Service did so conspire. Secondly, notice MI5 does not actually deny that the Service had plotted to undermine Wilson: not finding any evidence is not a denial; and thirdly, there is no mention […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] present time there have been innuendoes in the press to the effect that I am ‘the Fifth Man’, in other words a Soviet agent. The Director-General of MI5 should state publicly that he has unequivocal, repeat, unequivocal, evidence, that I am not, and never have been a Soviet agent.”(2) It was a bizarre letter […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
MI5 and the Wilson Plot The MI5 website (www.mi5.gov.uk) has a section called ‘myths and misunderstandings’, which features, among other things, ‘the Wilson Plot’. The paragraph it devotes to this episode is worth studying. It refers the reader to Spycatcher and Peter Wright’s allegation that ‘up to 30 members of the Service had […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] is the main reason for the new top level censorship committee that was set up in London earlier this year.’ Much more on this at http://cryptome.org/markov-file.htm http://cryptome.org/markov-file2.htm MI5 miscellany Shayler backs Peter Wright David Shayler’s piece in The Observer on 14 January, ‘Why I blew the gaff’, illustrated why he has been received with […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] years older than me and had a serious of indiscreet relationships including some with members of staff at PNL, relationships of which her husband had been unaware. MI5 were concerned because, as David Shayler has recently confirmed, they thought that some junior members of the CPGB had been recruited as KGB assets in this […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] of Communications Tribunal because of its limited remit. (21) He has also used the Data Protection Act 1998 to make subject access requests to various authorities, including MI5 and GCHQ, in an attempt to obtain personal data they hold on him. These have been unsuccessful, and Kennedy had initially hoped to challenge the certificates […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] is there worth saying that isn’t blindingly and depressingly obvious and predictable? Jack Straw, who took over as Home Secretary, and thus formally as the boss of MI5, is determined to sedate any sleeping dogs he comes across. When former MI5 officer, David Shayler, turned up bearing bad news about MI5, Straw bolted for […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] increasingly dire shape, and current levels of government funding for the agencies can no longer be taken for granted. (1) As a result, both the major agencies, MI5 and MI6, have been engaged in high profile operations part of whose rationale has manifestly been to show their nominal masters in the Government that they […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
Tom Bower, Heinemann, London This is the biography of Dick White, the only man to have been head of both MI5 and MI6 (SIS) and it is a massive breach of the new Official Secrets Act. For Bower not only had access to White’s memoir of the period, with White to vouch for him, […]