The view from the bridge

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 . […]

Did the Mossad steal John le Carré’s cunning plan?

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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] 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 […]

Holding pattern

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE
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[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 […]

South of the border

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 […]

Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?

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 […]

Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland Peter Taylor London: Bloomsbury, 2023 Hardback, £17 Nick Must This, the most recent in a long line of Peter Taylor’s works on the conflict in Northern Ireland, has been described in other reviews as ‘compelling’,1 ‘a gripping exploration’2 […]

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

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 […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland Peter Taylor London: Bloomsbury, 2023 Hardback, £17 Nick Must This, the most recent in a long line of Peter Taylor’s works on the conflict in Northern Ireland, has been described in other reviews as ‘compelling’,1 ‘a gripping exploration’2 […]

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