Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] there was ‘an “open door” policy for jihadis’. Coles states that Ramadan Abedi – the father of Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi – was ‘a paid MI6 operative’ (p. 62) but offers no citation for the claim. Mark Curtis, working the same material, writes: ‘Ramadan Abedi is believed to have been a prominent […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] the unwitting target of a gay pick-up. Then came the claim that at the time of the encounter, young master Cameron was suspected of being a trainee MI6 officer.4 6 Given Russia’s current stance on homosexuality, the insinuation that young Dave was being eyed up by a pair of men looks like something meant […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] events, it describes four assassinations – Bull, journalist Jonathan Moyle, Belgian politician André Cools, and one Lionel Jones2 – commissioned by the late Stephan Kock, allegedly of MI6, and carried out by British (SAS) personnel.3 This was followed by a vast judicial-state conspiracy to cover it up. But is the document genuine? We will […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] Website of John Young, who has been publishing information about states and especially their intelligence services for about 15 years.14 He recently published a list of putative MI6 officers15 and I was struck by how little it interested me. In 1989 I published A Who’s Who of the British Secret State, over a thousand […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] frequently accused the Foreign Office minister Lynda Chalker of obsessive secrecy in closing the archives. Between 1973 and 1978 the head of the British Secret Intelligence Service MI6, a man then known usually as ‘C’, was himself a real historian. Maurice Oldfield had studied history under A. J. P. Taylor at Manchester, earned his […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] the dear old BBC, whose investigative journalism knows no depths, recently used the regulations to gain information about the energy efficiency of the headquarters of MI5 and MI6, vital information which the public no doubt lapped up hungrily. I decided to use the ‘catchall’ net of the EIR to winkle out some rather more […]