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 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 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
What our pols read on their hols This summer it was hard to avoid laudatory pieces about or extracts from the Drew Weston’s book The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.(1) Here, it was said, was the explanation of how George Bush beat the Democrats and – by […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
