Spooks – U.K.

Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

[…] To Face M.P.’s Questions. (Peter Hennessy T. April 21 1983) The new Select Committees attempted to monitor the intelligence services and question the criteria for classification of MI5, MI6, and GCHQ documents. John Biffen, Leader of the House of Commons, said: “It is by no means clear that the intelligence services should come within […]

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] CIA reports and briefings); Declassified records (CIA, DIA, State dept, Nat Archives etc); Historical Espionage (eg Venona prog) and SIGINT (eg Bletchley, Enigma); Other historical docs ( MI5 and SOE); Ames Affair; debates and controversy (eg CIA as economic spy, budget of the IC, drug smuggling and the CIA). US Military Intelligence Sites http://www.loyola.edu/dept/politics/milintel.html […]

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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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Late breaking news on Clay Shaw’s United Kingdom contacts

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] lease that Lord Rothschild had on a three- story maisonette in Bentinck Street in London expired: Blunt moved in with Tessa Mayor (then Lord Rothschild’s secretary in MI5, later his wife), Patrician Rawdon-Smith (who later married a friend of Blunt’s) and Guy Burgess. They were soon joined by Jack Hewitt, a sailor boyfriend of […]

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Churchill and Secret Service

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] Official Secrets Act. The book covers a number of issues relating to the Second World War. The importance of Ultra, the activities of SOE, Churchill’s attitude towards MI5, the close cooperation between the British and Irish secret services, the assassination of Admiral Darlan and the rise of the Anglo-American intelligence alliance are all covered. […]

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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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Deadly Illusions

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Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] KGB archives. Five years ago, unimaginable. Today… today it certainly makes a striking contrast with dear, declining Britain, where MP’s may not even ask parliamentary questions about MI5 and 6. On the front cover is the legend “The KGB secrets the British government doesn’t want you to read’. I suspect that this also went […]

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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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Two Sides of Ireland (Book reviews)

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] in the “hayshed shoot-out” in November 1982. Doherty is critical of early reports of the existence of a tape-recording of the incident made by E4A using an MI5 bug, and dismisses it as a red herring. This seems unlikely considering the amount of information about the tape, and Stalker’s struggle to obtain it which […]

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The Kincora Scandal

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Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] (mostly unsourced) information about William McGrath and his strange organisation Tara. At various points Moore asserts that McGrath and Tara were being run by British intelligence – MI5, apparently – though it is never entirely clear, because Moore offers no evidence. I had a chat with Harry Irwin who compiled the Kincora bibliography in […]

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