Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
FREE
[PDF file]: […] increasingly difficult to avoid in rural areas. Roughly speaking, we are where the anti-smoking lobby was in the mid-1950s with the idea that tobacco caused cancer.49 Bliar, MI5? Thanks to SC for pointing out that the extract from former MI5 officer Annie Machon’s book, Spies Lies and Whistleblowers, 46 This quotation is from . […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
FREE
[PDF file]: […] to John le Carré. 1 The Little Drummer Girl, (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1983). 2 Born David John Moore Cornwell, in Poole, Dorset, 19 October 1931, ex- MI5, ex-MI6. 3 Agent Running in the Field, (London: Viking, 2019). 4 5 The Little Drummer Girl, foreword. The autobiography of the English-born Mossad field officer Olivia […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
FREE
[PDF file]: […] on the matter at all, concluding his recollection of the episode with a cryptic joke about the Palace having been in the scandal-burying business for centuries and MI5 being a comparative beginner. Wright must have known at least part of the purpose of Blunt’s mission, because it was reported by the Daily Telegraph back […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
FREE
[PDF file]: […] afternoon in a pub on the outskirts of Belfast, followed a man into the toilets and propositioned him for sex.’ ‘Elements of the security services’? He means MI5. And why not identify the story and its author? The book’s subtitle, after all, is Spies and the Media. The story was ‘Pub incident that exposed […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
FREE
[PDF file]: […] plotting to kill British Prime Minister, Theresa May. Initially, ‘Rahman made contact with an FBI agent posing as an IS official online, who introduced him to an MI5 role-player.’16 The jury took thirteen hours to reach their decision and, after he was convicted, ‘. . . a probation report read to the court by […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
FREE
[PDF file]: […] to Asil Nadir’s London solicitors in November 2010 by Olivia Frank. Ms Frank, who spied in Germany for the Israeli secret service in her youth, says that MI5 arranged for her to be jailed at the high-security Cookham Wood prison in Kent where she was to conduct negotiations with Mrs Elizabeth Forsyth, Asil Nadir’s […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
FREE
[PDF file]: […] it didn’t go back to Biblical times), and was thought to be porous, because of the openness of American society. It is partly for this reason that MI5, MI6, SOE, the FBI and OSS – the US’s new, swashbuckling foreign intelligence agency – found it difficult to co-operate. Two other reasons were American (especially […]