Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] the secret state seemed important and powerful. These days it doesn’t seem so significant. Would the average MP today be more afraid of the Daily Mail or MI5? How powerful can MI6 be if it is unable to withstand being co-opted by the prime minister’s chief press officer (Alastair Campbell) during the assault on […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] years before 7/7. However, they still had half a dozen instances where they had Mohammad Siddique Khan identified with his name, phone numbers, vehicles and addresses. Nonetheless, MI5 maintain that they never had any idea that he was going to become a suicide bomber. This is a fine example of doublethink because in excusing […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Even Wikipedia . . . In August much of the major media, including the BBC, ran a story about the late Cedric Belfrage, claiming he was a Soviet spy, ‘the sixth man’. Christopher Andrew was among those prominently quoted supporting this thesis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of this, pointing […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] though. The Mob, DISC, FBI-5 through Rev. Bowen, Percy Holt were my contacts, plus 2 In this paragraph he offers the Defence Industrial Security Command (DISC) and MI5 Division 5, who were in a version of the assassination story circulating in the 1970s called The Torbitt Memorandum (which originated in the cast of characters […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] up again in relation to ‘AQIM’. Abu Qatada was a recruiter for both the EIJ and the Algerian Islamic Group (GIA), and editor of the GIA’s newsletter. MI5 agent Reda Hassaine said: ‘I saw Qatada brainwash young Muslims, living in Britain from Africa, Somalia, 38 MoD, see note 22, p. 16. Center for Strategic […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: Peer group pressure Colin Challen Whilst engaging in the topical parlour game ‘Who in the Labour Party is trying to shaft Jeremy Corbyn?’, my mind naturally turned to the master of dark arts, Lord (Peter) Mandelson. I took a look at his entry in the House of Lords Register of Members’ Interests, where I learnt […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] during his ownership, this seemed questionable. I have been informed by a source close to Donovan that he used to be regularly visited by a ‘lady from MI5’ – although this source, when asked to elaborate, declined to comment any further. A tantalising, and yet inconclusive, state of affairs. 5 – James McCann, David […]