The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] is that the formation of the Civil Contingencies Cadre (CCC) at the centre of those events was the product of a conspiracy theory, propagated by members of MI5 among others – that there was a serious risk from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to what, for want of a better cliché, we […]

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[…] is that the formation of the Civil Contingencies Cadre (CCC) at the centre of those events was the product of a conspiracy theory, propagated by members of MI5 among others – that there was a serious risk from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to what, for want of a better cliché, we […]

The MOSSAD Spy by Olivia Frank

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Robin Ramsay Robin Ramsay This is what £50,000 in notes looks like. They were left in the boot of Olivia Frank’s car – by someone apparently from MI5 – in the hope that the moolah would persuade her not publish this book. The offer was declined: the money has been stashed, not spent, and […]

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[…] is that the formation of the Civil Contingencies Cadre (CCC) at the centre of those events was the product of a conspiracy theory, propagated by members of MI5 among others – that there was a serious risk from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to what, for want of a better cliché, we […]

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[…] is that the formation of the Civil Contingencies Cadre (CCC) at the centre of those events was the product of a conspiracy theory, propagated by members of MI5 among others – that there was a serious risk from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to what, for want of a better cliché, we […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] EIR and the dear old BBC, whose investigative journalism knows no depths, recently used the regulations to gain information about the energy efficiency of the headquarters of MI5 and MI6, vital information which the public no doubt lapped up hungrily. I decided to use the ‘catchall’ net of the EIR to winkle out some […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Dame Stella Rimington’.2 It would appear that the NA holds nothing of significance from her time as a spook. As an example, the publicly available files on MI5 monitoring of the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) only extends as far as February of 1934.3 This is laughable because, undeniably, this continued well 1 […]

The Clandestine Caucus: a minor update

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[PDF file]: […] group named the Anti-Communist (Home) Committee was established, comprising representatives from the Foreign Office, Treasury, Home Office, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Labour, and Security Service ( MI5). Chaired by cabinet secretary Norman Brook, the committee’s objective was ‘to keep communist activities in this country under review and to recommend what counter-action could properly […]

Her Majesty’s secret servants

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] almost a thousand years.1 Neither proposition has ever been better illustrated than by this country’s foreign policy towards Libya in the past 20 years or so. Former MI5 officer David Shayler reported that in 1996 MI6 had paid £100,000 to a Libyan Islamist group for the assassination of Colonel Gadaffi; and, although denied by […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] no evidence to the contrary, the silence from the UK government was ominous. In this context we should note the diary entries of Guy Liddell, a senior MI5 officer.61 He notes on 9 June 1941 that the Poles believed the UK was about to abandon them and ‘the Poles imagine that Hess may be […]

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