Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] Throughout the byzantine and years-long unfolding of the News International hacking scandal, there have been a few glimpses of what might have been peripheral involvement by the Security Service, MI5. I have only been keeping half an eye on the entire affair so the one that sticks in my mind is the 2011 revelation […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] his collaboration with Marks.19 6 – MI6 The writers for Friends/Frendz magazine, as well as James McCann and Howard Marks, were all on the radar of the security services. A retired police Special Branch officer, who worked in Northern Ireland and Britain in the 1970s, said that he knew ‘quite a lot about Friends’, […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] co-opted by the prime minister’s chief press officer (Alastair Campbell) during the assault on Iraq? Of course a lot has not changed since 1989. The intelligence and security services remain entirely unaccountable. Then there seemed some slight chance that, via the Labour Party, something might be done about that. I even got a resolution […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] trial for murder in 1951 in an apparent ‘domestic’, for which he received a suspended sentence even though convicted of first degree murder; and the details of security investigations of him by the Office of Naval 1 Available on her website at . 2 The report of the expert is reproduced in the book […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] of manifest destiny sought to resolve this contradiction by stipulating that domestic conquest was not imperial. Control of the Western hemisphere has always been defined as national security, not of asserting US domination. Likewise, it is impossible to understand the actions of the US government in Asia since 1910 without acknowledging that the US […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] 1941. A careful scrutiny of the material published, both here and abroad, suggests it is entirely possible that many prominent figures – in the military, royalty, the security services and Parliament, where Churchill lacked a majority – wanted out of the war by this point, via a compromise peace. However, as we know, rather […]