Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] of January 1982, that during the course of investigating the ‘coup’ story he and his colleagues had come across some ‘disturbing rumours’. Martin Furnival-Jones, Director General of MI5 from 1965 to 1972, told Heren that, although some of these rumours may have involved no more than ‘loose talk by gin-sodden generals’, they were taken […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] the planes involved in the attacks were ‘missiles wrapped in holograms’. At this point the author puts forward a theory of his own. Could Shayler be an MI5 plant ‘designed eventually to discredit the so-called 9/11 Truth Movement with increasingly extravagant absurdities?’(30)Or could he in fact be a higher being?(31) DANGO DANGO, the database […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] particularly thin if limited to British examples. Then there is official disinformation, another area in which Britain excels. As Home Secretary, Leon Brittan spent two weeks investigating MI5, concluding that ‘the Security Service has carried out no operation, investigation, surveillance or action against any individual otherwise than for the purposes laid down in its […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] she expressed ‘misgivings’ about Harold Wilson’s ‘reliability’ although her evidence was wholly anecdotal, based on such matters as Wilson’s visits to Russia thirty years earlier, and his employment of figures such as Geoffrey Goodman (on whom MI5 had a file) whose political reliability she evidently questioned.’ Three meetings to express her ‘misgivings’? Don’t think so….
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] decade after the 1991 Congress voted to dissolve the CPGB after seventy-one years of political life and to reconstitute itself as the Democratic Left, more than one MI5 officer could be heard to claim (a) that the British Security Service “had been virtually running the CPGB at the end….”, Assuming this claim about MI5 […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] Ulster Political Research Group by John MacMichael, then head of the UFF, who used it in his power struggle against Andy Tyrie. That MacMichael might have had MI5 links was revealed when he himself recycled the UCA smear, this time against Colin Wallace, to Independent journalist David McKittrick, formerly of BBC Northern Ireland. (With […]
Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
[…] on Public Records in 24 th Annual Report of Public Records Office. (Guardian 1 July 1983.) Thatcher personally stops publication of two books: official histories of war-time MI5 and war-time counter intelligence operations. (Guardian 25 November and 8 December 1983) Anthony Lester QC lecture states UK increasingly isolated from Europe and Commonwealth by refusal […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] as in no publication that I know of since David Miller’s Queen’s Rebels (Dublin, 1978).() While the authors are right not to accredit the 1974 strike to MI5 conspiracies, and to differentiate it from Paisley’s 1977 strike, they omit all reference to the activities of the secret state during this critical period. McDonald and […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] such quarters by reference to other views, even when readily available. For example he recounts (p. 67) the highly questionable Searchlight/World in Action view of the C18- MI5 relationship as though it was the only one. Importing into academic discourse the propaganda output of Searchlight magazine gravely hampers what at first sight seems the […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] Information-wise, it is almost useless, though there were one or two nice pictures. It was mostly bits and bobs of spy- or intelligenceish news, recycled from newspapers. MI5 lost laptops! Le Carre was a spy! ETA are bad! Star Wars hack Donald Rumsford has ‘vast political experience’ and his credibility is ‘sky high!’ FBI […]