Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] appeasement and of Anglo-German peace. (De Courcy) Extra-Parliamentary Ball, Sir George Joseph B. 1880.War Office 1911; HQ Irish Command 1914; British Expeditionary Force 1915-21; War Office, 1922. MI5; reorganised Conservative Research Department; signed the cheque which paid the forger of the Zinoviev letter; confidant of Chamberlain throughout his Prime Ministership; editor of Truth, a […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] in the political arena. Internal party groupings like the Conservative Party’s 1922 Committee or Labour’s Tribune Group are also described and there is even an entry for MI5 (but not for Special Branch or MI6). Another useful feature of the volume is its listings of overseas groups or parties who have either a formal […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] repeatedly broken into and articles left, taken or rearranged. No matter how often she changed the locks the break-ins continued. She had been to the police and MI5 – large amounts of documentation on this – with no result. She assumed she was being harassed by MOSSAD. For reasons that I now cannot recall, […]
Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££
[…] saying: “It’s impossible to say how many phones are being tapped at one time. The RUC Special Branch tap a lot … others, including Box 500 ( MI5), Six (MI6) and 12 Int (Military Intelligence). Sometimes you get a local ‘research cell’ (Brigade or Battalion Intelligence) doing their own tapping on a particular target..a […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] other inquiries the security service was not involved in Miss Murrell’s murder and had no knowledge of her before her death.’ I have seen no evidence that MI5 were involved in the Murrell’s death but just to be told, ‘Well, we asked and they denied it’ won’t do. (Though what would do, I admit, […]
Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££
[…] Scott and Iain Macleay’s Britain’s Secret War: Tartan Terrorism and the Anglo American State (Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1990. With only the slightest acquaintance with the ‘Anglo-American state’ (calling MI5 ‘DI5’, for example, and confusing its role with that of ‘DI6’), the authors blunder about in what is potentially a very interesting and under-reported area. Its […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] Cabinet Office in October 2002, if you look up SIS Chief Sir Richard Dearlove in the Index, his column ref. is ….. ‘666’. If you look up MI5 Chief Sir Stephen Lander (new chief not in yet) in the Index, his column ref. is ….. ‘666’. If you look up the Security Service, Secret […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] in its present form to investigate issues relating to the Army or MI5.’3 It is important to note that Sir Anthony Hart was expressing his concerns about MI5 publicly and in the presence of the press. That was an unusual step for a former High Court Judge to take, but it is now suspected […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: Inside British Intelligence 100 years of MI5 and MI6 Gordon Thomas London: JR books, 2009, £20 Spooks The Unofficial History of MI5 Thomas Hennessy and Claire Thomas Stroud (Glos.): Amberley, 2009, £30 Robin Ramsay I haven’t properly read either of these books and cannot really review them. However, there are some things I can […]
