Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
[PDF file]: […] later Neville Chamberlain and other supporters of the appeasement policy secretly bought and ran the weekly newspaper Truth. This was largely an operation run by the former MI5 officer and éminence grise of the time, Sir Joseph Ball. He used the official government information machine to push the Chamberlain line, formed the National Publicity […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[PDF file]: […] For one response, see the letter from former full-time CP employee Bill Brooks in Guardian 21 November 1991. 2 1 communist CPGB to which she belonged.3 Enter MI5 So far, so straightforward but, like most stories which involve the security services, there is more here than meets the eye. According to Falber, in 1958, […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 The miners and the secret state * Robin Ramsay In his 1987 book Spycatcher former MI5 officer Peter Wright revealed one of MI5’s biggest secrets; but focused as we were on his comments about the plotting against Harold Wilson, we didn’t initially notice the section on page 175 where he wrote […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG Nick Must In his book Manufacturing Terrorism,1 T. J. Coles mentions that ex- MI5 officer David Shayler has recently claimed that Ramadan Abedi (the father of Manchester Arena suicide bomber, Salman Abedi) was the MI6 asset who had previous been identified solely with the cypher ‘Tunworth’. Shayler first […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] this to Kincora, even though he had read Wallace’s documents, some of which were about it.3 Hitherto the agency linked with Kincora in media stories has been MI5. It is MI5 – who had replaced SIS as lead intelligence agency in Northern Ireland – who refused to take action when informed about McGrath’s activities […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] the text there is footnote 195. This leads to a piece by Nafeez Ahmed,5 which, in turn, cites a report in Middle East Eye, headlined ‘”Sorted” by MI5: How UK government sent British-Libyans to fight Gaddafi’. Its first sentence is: ‘The British government operated an “open door” policy that allowed or 3 See, for […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] who originated untrue stories spread about Thomas Niedermayer. On p. 184 the following appears: ‘Following the abduction, journalists were given off the record briefings from Wallace and MI5 officers that suggested several alternative reasons for what had happened. In two of these scenarios, loyalists were blamed for the kidnapping. According to Robert Fisk, journalists […]