Britain spinning in the Sibel Edmonds web

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] British media link was The Observer’s David Rose, who wrote an article for Vanity Fair three years ago.(6) Rose recently revealed that he had a relationship with MI5 and MI6 in the past,(7) and, given the proximity of British intelligence to the A. Q. Khan network, which forms the core proliferation group which Edmonds […]

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Two views of Dorril: MI6: Fifty years of Special Operations

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

MI6: Fifty years of Special Operations Stephen Dorril Fourth Estate, London, 2000, £25 hb   Harold Smith As I can testify from personal experience, having in 1960 been summoned to Government House in Lagos, Nigeria, to have my death sentence pronounced by the Governor General, MI6 is brutal, cruel, merciless and totally unforgiving. Dorril’s courage, […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] attacks ‘the relentless pressure of a security state’ and describes the government’s response to the terrorism threat as ‘mediaeval delusions’; (3) and when the former head of MI5 describes the response to 9/11 as ‘a huge overreaction’.(4) The minds of bankers Some years ago I was told the following story by someone who was […]

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Princess Diana: the Hidden Evidence

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] (9) the most interesting one concerning Camilla Parker-Bowles’ car crash two months before Diana’s death. This, according to King and Beveridge, was a failed assassination attempt by MI5 intended to ‘clean up the constitutional mess’ caused by the marital and extramarital predicament in which the Prince of Wales found himself’, whilst at the same […]

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Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] strategies could be effective only in the wider context of the incorporation of the working class into the political order.” Blowing the gaffers Paul Demetriou Leveller/Monochrome April 1985 Interview with unnamed MI5 officer: details tapping, break-ins, surveillance (some of them included in the Clippings Digest). This is an important companion piece to the Massiter revelations.

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Errors, corrections and updates

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] a long piece, over 5,000 words, on Newton’s political career, Bateman’s account (and the errors allegedly therein) and why he did not believe Newton had been an MI5 agent. Very interesting indeed. But he attached a condition: print intact, unedited, or not at all. So I sent it back. (I didn’t want to materially […]

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Following in Uncle Sam’s dirty footsteps: chemical and biological warfare testing in the UK

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

In 1953 Dr Drank Olsen, a scientist working for the CIA, was found dead on the pavement outside a New York hotel. The Agency instituted a cover-up of the circumstances of his death. The cover-up survived until 1975 when it was revealed that Olsen had been one of many people who had been unwittingly given […]

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Smearing Robert Henderson

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] 36, has had weeks off-line caused by a succession of computer viruses. The viruses started arriving shortly after he signed a contract to write a volume on MI5 for the Pocket Essentials series. I wrote about Robert Henderson and his experience of having Special Branch and a tabloid sicced onto him by the Blairs […]

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Kiss me on the apocalypse!

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] they were too timid and had not been allowed sufficient time. In late 1973 Goldsmith, fellow Clermont member, David Stirling, and ‘other businessmen’ met Peter Wright, an MI5 officer, at the suggestion of Victor Rothschild, a distant cousin of Goldsmith. Wright said that during the meeting Goldsmith stated that a large number of ‘significant […]

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‘A Most Extraordinary Case’

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] duty that night in Hammersmith police station were involved with Quinn’s death; or, at least, knew what happened and covered up. Kennedy speculates that Special Branch and/or MI5 may be involved, and suspects that an interception warrant, established during his case, is being constantly renewed. He believes the intention is to damage his business […]

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