Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] was a guest on his show). There are several pages of an ultimately inconclusive account about alleged abuse and cover ups at Knowl View Children’s Home and MI5 get name checked on p. 195 as having kept Smith out of trouble (‘but no one is prepared to go on record about it’). Danczuk mentions […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] Played With Fire: Stieg Larsson’s Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin Jan Stocklassa, Seattle: Amazon Crossing, 2019, £13.15 (h/b) The Man in the Brown Suit: MI5, Edward VIII and an Irish Assassin James Parris (Harry Harmer) Cheltenham: The History Press, 2019, £14.00 (h/b) The Stocklassa book is about the killing of Olof […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] Wright’s book ‘gave credence to Wilson’s persistent claims that he was the target of a conspiracy against him by a cabal consisting of at least 30 extremist MI5 officers.’ Wilson didn’t claim that. The 30 figure came from Wright who said that ‘up to 30’ MI5 officers were involved in or cognisant of the […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] Ireland.3 1 The influence of Morton in this process is unmistakeable, as he had recently been operational in Northern Ireland himself – and his work there for MI5 had been integral to counter-insurgency. The visit duly took place in June of 1983, less than a year after the killings in Northern Ireland that lead […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] at Manchester’s International Anthony Burgess Foundation, confirmed by e-mail: ‘We’ve not yet come across any records within our collection which support the claim that Burgess worked for MI5.’ Note that careful ‘not yet’. And note also the reference is only to MI5 and not MI6. But by the same token, there is absolutely nothing […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] Section D or Section VII. Any such large-scale effort within the UK border by one of the security agencies would have more naturally been the responsibility of MI5, but they were already stretched to full capacity in attempting to monitor both German and Communist agents who were already in place.5 Roughly 3,000 men were […]