Using the UK FOIA, part III

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of their deliberations: it has been denied. I know every minuted word from those meetings but, according to the Tribunal, who said those words is actually more secret. In two previous editions of Lobster I have charted the course of my appeal under the FOIA.1 I included my original Lobster article on the WUCC […]

General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] May 1941, when Hitler’s deputy crashed a fighter-bomber in Southern Scotland just six weeks before the German invasion of Russia, followed twelve months of dangerous and duplicitous secret wartime diplomacy. The new angle from Harris and Wilbourn1 concerns a risky transatlantic flight by the prime minister of the Polish government in exile. General Władysław […]

Sir John Sawer’s speech and some aspects of SIS PR

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] always a give-away and can be a pleasing indication of progress. So, for example, in Professor 123 Winter 2010 Jeffery’s reference work, MI6, the history of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909 – 1949, there is an example of the huge lobbying pressure that the educator – a crucial spook role – would have been […]

Running Rings

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Following a report in the Financial Times, the website Silicon reported The contract has highlighted data sovereignty concerns, given that a vast amount of the UK’s most secret data will be hosted by a single US tech company. However, the FT reported that despite AWS being an American company, the British data will be […]

The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] actually seen ‘newly translated works of Trotsky’ in a bookshop window); with the Nazis (‘the writings of Trotsky were widely translated and distributed’ in Germany); with Franco’s secret police (Trotsky’s works ‘were published by the Franco press at Salamanca and Burgos’); and with the Polish secret police (who were ‘specially educated in Trotskyism’); now […]

Well, how did we get here?

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to one of selective intervention; and also to a major reflationary policy….’2 0 The ‘brooding in the car’ story was a fiction. Armstrong had been chairing a secret Whitehall economics committee, created by Heath, that had been in existence for a year.21 The committee has been set up to devise a way of creating […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

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[PDF file]: […] Here is Wright’s account. Then there was the Falber Affair. After the PARTY PIECE operation, MI5 went on the hunt for the CPGB files which listed the secret payments made to the Party by the Soviets. We suspected that perhaps they might be held in the flat of Reuben Falber, who had recently been […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] decided to leak the intelligence material in order to damage his electoral opponent. 100 26 had begun to flow, out of Ukraine and into the comedy troupe’s secret offshore accounts. At the centre of this network was a corporation called Maltex Multicapital. Based in the British Virgin Islands, Maltex was owned by a front […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] decided to leak the intelligence material in order to damage his electoral opponent. 100 26 had begun to flow, out of Ukraine and into the comedy troupe’s secret offshore accounts. At the centre of this network was a corporation called Maltex Multicapital. Based in the British Virgin Islands, Maltex was owned by a front […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] decided to leak the intelligence material in order to damage his electoral opponent. 100 26 had begun to flow, out of Ukraine and into the comedy troupe’s secret offshore accounts. At the centre of this network was a corporation called Maltex Multicapital. Based in the British Virgin Islands, Maltex was owned by a front […]

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