[…] of MI5. Our fearless journalist reports that ‘Sir Steven had clearly been shaken by cruel and untimely remarks made by Tom King, chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee.’ Poor baby! How fortunate that EYE SPY! was there to sympathise. Unnamed fearless reporter continues: ‘The Director-General should never have been put in this position.’ […]
[…] ‘The Round Table Movement and India 1909-20’ in Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies, November 1971 A.L. Rowse, All Souls and Appeasement (Macmillan, London, 1961) M.G. Fry, Illusions of Security (University of Toronto, 1972) W. B. Nimmocks, ‘Lord Milner’s Kindergarten and the Origins of the Round Table’ in South Atlantic Quarterly, Autumn 1964. D.C.Watt, Personalities and Policies […]
[…] damage to the Afghan supply line may go further than just those killed in the crash. If the joint American/Pakistan inquiry blames sabotage or a lack of security for the crash, Lt. Gen. Ahmad Gul will almost certainly have to step down as head of the powerful Inter Services Intelligence organisation, ISI. As head […]
[…] traditional boundaries and areas of responsibilities, with access to classified and unrestricted information…’ Sebestyen Gorka and Richard Sullivan, ‘Biological toxins: A bioweapon threat in the 21st century’, Security Dialogue, 33 (2) (June 2002), pp 141-156. The Cold War The Congress of Cultural Freedom’s ‘The Future of Freedom’ Conference held in Milan in 1955 is […]
[…] vigorously fight his conviction. We believe he is a victim of a miscarriage of justice perpetrated by the British MOD, Crown Prosecution Service and Police. The British Security Services continue their underhanded methods as revealed by the current case of ex-MI5 spy, David Shayler, who tried to whistle blow on his secret service bosses.’ […]
[…] Maybe it comes down to this. Were I living in the Soviet bloc I would be extremely interested in – and fearful of – that bloc’s intelligence/ security agencies. Living in Britain I can see little reason to be interested in, let alone fearful of, their activities. But looking at Northern Ireland, or the […]
Charlie Bubbles One of Lobster’s contributors had dinner a few years ago with Charlie Falconer, the current Lord Chancellor, and reported that he was a fount of information on the B-sides of pop singles of the 1960s. Well, pop-pickers, our civil liberties are safe in his hands then. Or not. As New Labour prepares to … Read more
[…] MI6 station chief Budapest 1941 (Letter, The Times, 22 April 1991). Douglas Gordon: British Consul-General Aden, expelled for spying (Sunday Correspondent 26 August 1990). J. Johnston: Radio Security Service in WW2 (letter, Sunday Telegraph 12 August 1990). Group Captain William Cross: Expelled Algeria (Independent 15 April 1991). John Peskett: “Former Intelligence Officer’ (letter, Sunday […]
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. The history of the last century suggests that, to challenge these stultifying forces of expansion and repression, traditional processes must themselves be rejuvenated by fresh inputs of human energy. Traditional modes of political organisation, whether reformist or radical, have little chance by themselves of challenging the CIA’s ‘world-wide infrastructure’ … Read more
[…] state – will have to be defeated or reformed; and as the tales of being pepper-sprayed in this volume remind us, you can’t just by-pass the national security state. Before the language of globalisation, these issues were discussed in terms of multi- or trans-national capital – terms which appear very, very occasionally in this […]
