Children and the Official Secrets Act

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] as Colonel Oleg Gordiefsky – may carry additional and different burdens, as can those employed in private sector espionage. Note: one of the justifications Dame Stella Rimington gave for writing her autobiography when she stood down from MI5 was because ‘she wished to explain things’ to her daughters. See The Guardian (Weekend) 8 September 2007.

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Lobster Issue 43: Contents

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] scrap one computer made unusable by one — and, by a strange coincidence, they started arriving just after he signed a contract to write a book about MI5. Add this to Malcolm Kennedy’s problems described in previous issues and again in Jane Affleck’s pieces here, and the attempt to smear Robert Henderson, described in […]

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Spymaster

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] take Agee’s word against Kalugin’s. For the moment, I do too.* This alleged Agee connection with the KGB is presumably the flimsy basis of the allegation, from MI5, in the notorious ‘Gable memo’ (reprinted in Lobster 24) that Kelly was a ‘KGB man’. You can see how the smear went: Agee went to the […]

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Your Right To Know: How to use the Freedom of Information Act and other access laws

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] Information Act via s23…..It provides an absolute exemption for information that was supplied directly or indirectly, or relates to the following security bodies: the Security Service ( MI5), the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), GCHQ, Special Forces …the National Criminal Intelligence Service…a certificate from a minister is all that is needed for the exemption to […]

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Hitler’s Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, New York University Press, 1998, £l7.95 Savitri Devi – real name Maximiani Portas; she was part Greek, part French – is an odd subject for a biography. This is someone of little importance to anyone other than extreme environmentalists and/or the ultra-right. Even the title is misleading. She never met Hitler (so cannot, […]

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The British Lion “Letters to the Editor”, from Maxwell Knight

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] interesting companion piece to Jeffrey Bale’s esssay on WACL and the Moonies in Lobster 21. Anybody interested in John Hope’s essay in issue 22 on Maxwell Knight, MI5 and the British Fascisti et al, will want to get a copy of its companion piece, ‘British Fascism and the State 1917–27: a re-examination of the […]

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After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] Kelly had sometimes been ‘an undercover man for the intelligence services’.(20) Unsurprising, perhaps, that veteran journalist Tom Mangold should claim Kelly’s death was investigated by ‘Special Branch, MI5; MI6 had a man present and the CIA had a man present.’(21) Baker’s book details the whole ghastly scandal, from the disputed reasons behind the invasion […]

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A Friendship of Convenience

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Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] had not yet achieved auteur status and was working on potboilers under a variety of pseudonyms. A chance meeting between the two comes to the attention of MI5, and Blunt is instructed to befriend Losey and monitor his activities on behalf of the American intelligence services. In doing so, he comes to admire Losey’s […]

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Spy Wars

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] forces won and the consensus formed that Angleton was a nutter who did terrible damage to the CIA and, by extension, to allied intelligence agencies such as MI5 and MI6.(6) This anti-Angleton consensus is challenged by his former ally Begley, who reanalyses the Nosenko affair and tries to show the reader that their – […]

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Clippings Digest: August – November 1984

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

[…] Branch SB attending Friends of the Earth and NCCL meetings in Manchester. (Guardian 29 November) MI6 Interesting piece on Tony Jones, London solicitor accused of being MI6/ MI5 informant, including the information that Michael Bettaney was the source of the information, in Black Flag 27 November. Political intelligence service of Hamburg police prepare weekly […]

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