The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

Mr Tony was a spook? Issue 7 of Larry O’Hara’s Note from the Borderland () includes a section from the Anne Machon and David Shayler book, Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers (reviewed in Lobster 49), which was apparently dropped by the publisher. The key section is this, from an unnamed MI5 officer: ‘Blair was recruited […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

NFTB There is a new issue, no 6, of Larry O’Hara’s Notes from the Borderland. It is 68 pages, glossy paper, with essays on ‘journo-cops’, Paul Foot, Shayler and Machon and the Copeland bombing. In the UK this is £3.50 from BM 4769, London WC1N 3XX; a two issue sub is £7.50. Outside the […]

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Gone but not forgotten: a further update on Di

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] constant surveillance as part of their remit to ‘protect the Royal Family from scandal that might bring it and Britain into disrepute’.()According to former MI5 officer David Shayler, MI6 wanted to curtail Diana’s liaison with the Al Fayed family. ‘I think that MI6 paid to have Diana and Dodi involved in an accident using […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] trying to overthrow Colonel Gaddafy’s regime. That name might ring a bell because this is the group, an al-Qaeda affiliate we are told, which, according to David Shayler, was paid by MI6 to try to assassinate Colonel Gaddafy. But this was back in the days when Gaddafy was ‘the mad dictator’, some time funder […]

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Stalin’s granny, Christopher Andrew and the Cold War

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] effectively, a political show-trial. At the same time they have hypocritically called for the release of a real mass-murderer, General Pinochet. Disappointingly, the exiled MI5 whistle-blower, David Shayler, has added his tuppenyworth to the tabloid calls to ‘string ‘er up’, prompting the suspicion that he is more like Peter Wright (a bitter-and-twisted reactionary criticising […]

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The Libyans and the death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] answer….. The Guatemala documents are in the National Security Archive, on-line at www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/ This is quoted in Robert Parry’s Lost History, reviewed in this issue, p.27. David Shayler sat on MI5’s Libyan desk for a while and he saw material which persuaded him that the Libyans did Lockerbie. Which tells us that the disinformation […]

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Sources: Spectre. CAQ, etc

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] website address is: http://www.sp.nl/spectre/ Notes from the Borderland Issue 2 of Larry O’Hara’s magazine appeared in late October. It includes: long essays by O’Hara on MI5 (after Shayler etc) and the hanky-panky in Leeds over the last few years between the BNP, AFA et al; Robin Whittaker on ‘A Method of Inducing Mind Disturbance […]

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The Open Side of Secrecy: Britain’s Intelligence and Security Committee

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] has chosen to look into would come a long way down the list of topics chosen by readers of this journal. ISC has not spoken to David Shayler and Richard Tomlinson, for example; nor Tony Holland, Richard Symonds and Michael Smith (who writes is this issue), who have recently begun working together;(1) nor John […]

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Digging in the Oyston archive

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] but was largely unaware that he had been marked down as a dangerous enemy of the centralised British political system. According to the former MI5 officer David Shayler, the intelligence services file on Owen Oyston was re-examined in 1992 by the head of MI5, when it looked as if Neil Kinnock’s revived Labour party […]

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The accountability of the intelligence and security services

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] been stuffed with loyalist place men and women. The committee has never taken up the wide range of issues raised by former intelligence operatives such as David Shayler and Richard Tomlinson, seemingly on the basis that it does not want to encourage whistleblowers, when it is precisely these whistle-blowers who have done the most […]

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