Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] and Technology, which is still investigating the collapse five years after the event. See for its latest summary. Claire Regan, ‘Queen’s boffin to write official history of MI6’, Belfast Telegraph, 7 December 2005. The account will parallel the official history of the Security Service, currently being written by Cambridge historian Professor Christopher Andrew. His […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] itself, involved in them. Christie’s book presents great problems for this reviewer. Who, in this country, is qualified to say anything intelligent about it? Some members of MI6 maybe. This kind of parapolitical research into anything just isn’t practised here: Christie’s book is virtually without precedent in this country. So, the first thing to […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] the Centre for Conflict Studies, Washington.’ (Presumably sponsored means paid for by.) It includes a paper by ex ISC Peter Janke, now Director of Research for the MI6 operation, Control Risks. Editor Tucker is a former Deputy Head of IRD. No team like the old team. (Thanks to H. G. in Canada for the […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] Portuguese readers that he came to Oporto in a KGB training mission as it was said in court in November 1993……. And I recall that the ex- MI6 officer, Richard Tomlinson saw an MI5 report on the case which concluded that Mr. Smith had not given any important or damaging information to Victor Oschenko. […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] Office, bugging, tapping, intercepting mail — as well as producing inept anti-communist propaganda. Then as independence loomed, the Colonial Office/MI5 team were replaced by the Foreign Office/ MI6 people. Smith’s encounter with colonial corruption climaxes with his discovery that among his duties was election rigging for the British. ‘I had been ordered during the […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] society. On this it is worth looking at Stephen de Mowbray’s Soviet Deception and the Onset of the Cold War in Encounter (July/August 1984). De Mowbray, ex MI6, is one of the quartet who wrote the introduction to Golitsyn’s New Lies For Old, discussed in Lobster 5. He argues that the Soviet Union misled […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] then the reputations of such featured icons as the ‘golf balls’ at Fylingdales and Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire, the Greenham Common airfield in Berkshire, and the MI6 building at Vauxhall Cross in central London. Many English landscapes particularly but not exclusively at airfields east of the Pennines, closest to our expected foes […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] to the capture of a small army of Soviet ‘moles’ in Britain, Sweden, West Germany, Israel, Denmark and France. His most important catch was the high ranking MI6 official George Blake, whose unmasking led in turn to the exposure of Kim Philby, the most famous ‘mole’ of all time. Most disturbing of all, however, […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] Meyer Lansky in Bermuda. Parker paints a picture of the British royal family tinged with homosexuality, drug addiction and general decadence, and attributes to a hitherto secret MI6 report, allegations that the Duchess had been an enthusiastic participant in threesomes in some high class brothels in China. Another version of this territory is said […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] as internally. For this reason, the public is told: ‘…..fraud investigators from the Benefit Agency are being taught how to use surveillance techniques by former SAS and MI6 officers. The company, AMA Associates, a security agency, has coached nearly 1000 government fraud officers on a Professionalism in Security (PINS) course accredited by Portsmouth university…….’ […]