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 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] the embassy in 1968 the Russians had side-stepped it by filling the Soviet Trade Delegation with intelligence officers and by making use of “working wives”.’ By 1971, MI5 estimated that of the near-1,000 Soviet officials (and wives) in the UK, a quarter were involved in ‘undiplomatic activities’. How had this been allowed to happen? […]
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 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] less grand than those O’Donnell arranged between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats: less opulent surroundings, fewer civil servants, no one from the Palace, the head of MI5 not around to give urgent advice. It all felt a bit perfunctory and was not helped by Labour failing to put a clear deal to the […]
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 […]