President Putin and Sochi 2014 PR

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] virtuous reminder of the then Soviet Union’s wickedness, President Putin’s Russia can promote Tolstoy’s genius in the same way as the UK loses no 2 See ‘The SIS and London-based Foreign Dissidents’ in Lobster 65. 3 Over the next eighteen months, those wishing to monitor the UK’s view of President Putin, which may/may not […]

Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices

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[PDF file]: […] there had been over many years about wrongdoing at Kincora. The HIA Inquiry’s assertion that it was not until 1980 that the RUC Special Branch, MI5, the SIS and Army Intelligence became aware that McGrath had been sexually abusing residents at Kincora was further undermined by a report in The Sunday Correspondent newspaper on […]

Newsinger Uproar

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[…] the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment and persecution of the likes of Peter Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Agnes ‘ Sis’ Cunningham and others. It showed how the US state went after the folk music lefties as part of its campaign against the Communist Party (CP). At […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] though the extant evidence; and there’s a lot of it. En passant he writes, ‘I am a friend and former colleague of Christopher Steele’. Since Steele was SIS, is Snell saying he was, too?16 Flag-waving On Times Radio on 31 May the current leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, described Reform UK as […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] have felt the need to spy on others, and on their own people, they have tried to keep the very fact of their doing so secret – SIS, MI5 and GCHQ didn’t officially exist until 1989. By contrast, the CIA was set up by Congress, and has always been – formally at least – […]

States of Emergency: Keeping the global population in check by Kees van der Pijl

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] COVID was all part of some much wider plan – the Great Reset coming out of the World Economic Forum, and the United Nations Agenda 2030.1 (empha sis added) The United Nations Agenda 20302 is a list of decent, liberal aspirations – ranging from the clearly defined ‘no poverty’ and ‘zero hunger’ to the […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

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[PDF file]: […] – the traditional Tory Party ideas of getting the government off the backs of the producers, reducing taxation and so forth: hence the ‘Selsdon 1 Man’ empha sis. Given these conditions, he believed, British capitalism would produce the investment and modernisation required to meet the bracing winds of competition from Europe. But Heath discovered […]

British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] engaged in more conventional activism! Even Auden’s visit to Republican Spain seems to have gone unnoticed by MI5, although as Smith notes there might well be an SIS file. Interest in Auden did, however, explode into life in June 1951 at the time of the Guy Burgess defection. One of the last things Burgess […]

View from the bridge

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[…] of the other British major media would. On 16 March they carried the text of a 2020 report on Covid’s origins, commissioned by the former head of SIS, Richard Dearlove. The report begins: ‘It is now beyond reasonable doubt that COVID-19 was engineered in Wuhan Institute for Virology’.33 It assembles the evidence that was […]

GLADIO: NATO’s dagger at the Heart of Europe; the Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis by Richard Cottrell

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] shutdown. To this non-existent ‘coup’ plan of 1974 Cottrell has added the Cecil King-Lord Mountbatten meeting of 1968. (pp. 236/7) He has Sir Maurice Oldfield, a career-long SIS officer, as ‘MI5’s director of counter-intelligence and deputy controller’. He tells us (p. 240) that Peter Wright’s book ‘gave credence to Wilson’s persistent claims that he […]

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