Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] Western engagement against Islamism in Western Asia would naturally create conflicts of loyalty. While MI6 might enjoy itself understanding the intricacies of Pathan tribal politics, it was MI5 that was going to have to pick up the pieces. As we move towards 2008, the last Prime Minister’s over-speedy insertion of expensive military collateral into […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] not, he is the referee and he can send any man off the field and call our man on at any time he likes’. Presumably an exaggeration, MI5 felt strongly enough about the comment to have it excised from a 1981 Panorama programme, presented by Tom Mangold, the first ever made about ‘British intelligence’. […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] to tackle something as sensitive as immigration and concern about the impact on trade with Middle Eastern countries. The combination of these led the British state, through MI5, coming to a kind of unstated agreement with the Jihadists that they wouldn’t play at home. Hence the growth of Londonistan, argues Phillips. It is the […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] curious press reports that both Shell and BP had hired ex-MI6 staff and a former German intelligence agent to infiltrate Greenpeace (3) and that Tesco had asked MI5 to investigate the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. In an obscure spat about salmon farming Tesco believed – apparently – that the RSPB had […]
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.
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] the police and army stepped beyond the law, in terms of indigenous collusion, is understandable if not to be condoned. What matters more to historians is how MI5, as an example, intervened in this process to service various agendas, some of which had little to do with fighting terrorism in Northern Ireland. The attempted […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] NB on this paragraph see the correction in Lobster 26. Kevin Taylor — Manchester businessman, Chair of Manchester Conservative Association, whose life and business were ruined by MI5 and the police looking for dirt with which to smear his friend John Stalker, then deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester. (See The Poisoned Tree, Kevin […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] three times annually by two British eccentrics with a limited distribution to “about 50 like-minded friends.” N.B. It is anti-intelligence, specifically against the Western intelligence services, particularly MI5, MI6 and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The subject matter is apparently varied, eclectic, and highly interesting and informative for intelligence professionals and buffs.’ While good […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] Among the dross was this curious statement from retiring committee member, Dale Campbell-Savours, who, in the late 1980s, was one of the Labour MPs asking questions about MI5: ‘We could never allow a system whereby someone could be appointed without great consideration. Ultimately, the whole system survives because of the relationship between the services […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] many of the articles (and a knowing tone of voice which I find irritating). On the front cover is advertised ‘Eliza Manningham-Buller: uncovering the link between the MI5 director-general and recent royal scandals’. But there is no link that I can see. After four thousand or so densely documented words, the question is posed: […]
