Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] challenge Mr Blair means that the Secret Intelligence Service in effect colluded with the prime minister as he led Britain into a calamitous war. (I show that MI5, the domestic intelligence service, emerges much more creditably.) All this means that we are entitled to assert without contradiction that the Blair government led Britain into […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] noting on p. 196 in his long list of outstanding items in the case: ‘From my experience as a Naval Intelligence officer with a top security clearance, MI5 would have discovered I knew there were things to hide over the Falklands War which were potentially more serious than the torpedoing of the General Belgrano.’ […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] was taken away to Maryhill Barracks. . . . We were not alone in questioning this turn of events, and indeed we were interested to learn that MI5 had inquired how it was possible that Battaglia had turned up and got so close to Hess. Over the years we have tried to learn more […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] Trotskyist doctrine that the workers should ‘take no part in the bosses’ war’. A paid official and organiser of the ILP from 1940, he was monitored by MI5 but no action was taken against him. Perhaps this was because he was declared unfit for war service on medical grounds and thus never had to […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] the racism of empire’ from an early age. The report Morton produced was kept a close secret and forty years later, when Miller requested a copy from MI5, his request was acknowledged and then ignored. Miller goes on: ‘The Foreign Office had a file called “Sri Lanka Security: Assessment 1978”. That file was destroyed […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] say, Hollywood movie moguls. Ostensibly part of a chieftain rolling programme – Sir John’s speech followed those given by the director of GCHQ and directors general of MI5 – the statement was the finale to an impressive three pronged SIS PR campaign. In addition to Sir John’s talk, this comprised the September launches of […]