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 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 […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] dropped.() British spook heritage PR As part of their PR strategy, two of Britain s spook employers are producing certain bestsellers: public sector 100th anniversary accounts of MI5 and SIS.()Moving their civil servants away from the mythology, they are positioning them – possibly as part of spook turf wars – as mainstream parts of […]
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 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] far as I can tell. Most of it is a rehash of the Wales’ miserable marital life with the Paris revelations left until the end. In brief: MI5 carried out the killing (with the French supplying the Mercedes). The car’s seatbelts were tampered with. Henri Paul was briefed by one of his intelligence handlers […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] payments of £14,000 and £15,000 in 1978.’ In fact, as has been reported in these pages before, Falber’s role as the Soviets’ bagman was first revealed in Peter Wright’s Spycatcher in 1987. Falber’s role had been known by MI5 from the outset. MI5 for whatever reason chose to let the ‘Moscow gold’ continue.
Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] lease that Lord Rothschild had on a three- story maisonette in Bentinck Street in London expired: Blunt moved in with Tessa Mayor (then Lord Rothschild’s secretary in MI5, later his wife), Patrician Rawdon-Smith (who later married a friend of Blunt’s) and Guy Burgess. They were soon joined by Jack Hewitt, a sailor boyfriend of […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] who followed the instructions. Reported in Counterpunch, Vol 5. No 21 (December 1-15, 1998) PO Box 18675, Washington DC 20036. Another cunning Commie plot Erstwhile Director-General of MI5, Stella Rimington, was the subject of a long profile in the Sunday Telegraph, 21 June 1998. Rimington said that when she became D-G she ‘tried to […]
Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££
[…] To Face M.P.’s Questions. (Peter Hennessy T. April 21 1983) The new Select Committees attempted to monitor the intelligence services and question the criteria for classification of MI5, MI6, and GCHQ documents. John Biffen, Leader of the House of Commons, said: “It is by no means clear that the intelligence services should come within […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] (mostly unsourced) information about William McGrath and his strange organisation Tara. At various points Moore asserts that McGrath and Tara were being run by British intelligence – MI5, apparently – though it is never entirely clear, because Moore offers no evidence. I had a chat with Harry Irwin who compiled the Kincora bibliography in […]
