First supplement to ‘A Who’s Who of the British Secret State’

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] INFANTRY BRIGADE -18 ‘WORK FOR ADMIRALTY’ -20- ‘FOREIGN OFFICE NEWS DEPARTMENT’ 26-40 PRESS ATTACHE PARIS, FRIEND OF DUKE OF WINDSOR MOORES, MICHAEL MI6 (N) 1980s OPERATIONS AGAINST IRA IN WEST GERMANY MORGAN, COL. E.P. MI5 (W) 39-45 SECURITY MOSS, PADDY GCHQ 1970s SENIOR POST GCHQ MOSS, DAVID JOSEPH B. 6/11/38 1956 CIVIL SERVICE COLLEGE […]

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UK Eyes Alpha: the Inside Story of British Intelligence

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] on top, replacing the Soviet ‘threat’ with the terrorist ‘threat’, and actually expanding its personnel, while MI6 and GCHQ are tightening (pretty generous) belts. Let’s hope the IRA, the animal rights movement, Green Anarchist and the anti-roads campaigners are suitably flattered to be the equivalent of the espionage services of a super-power! For all […]

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Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] to happen – because there is virtually no political control over the security organisations: when they fuck-up nothing happens to them. MI5 botch a surveillance of an IRA operation and £300 million’s worth of damage is done to the City of London; and nothing happens, no heads roll. MI6 gets involved in trying to […]

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Wallace: Information Policy in fiction

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] Pascal was grateful for the cynical freemasonry of veteran Belfast reporters, which had omitted to inform his London colleague that McDowell’s imagination had already reinforced the Provisional IRA with cadres of Vietcong, Czechoslovakians, Lithuanians and Communist Frenchmen.’ Dowling understood, had correctly ‘read’ some of the Information Policy operations. Other ‘Irish hands’ certainly knew of […]

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Five at Eye

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] machine in the summer of 1966. And it was the KGB’s best buy for years. Cubans in London and Paris have helped run arms shipments to the IRA – and supplied passports to Palestinian guerrilla factions. Its seventeen diplomats are under constant surveillance. It wasn’t only in the Eye that dubious material appeared in […]

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The Pentagon’s Psychic Research

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] penetration of a residence that was used by Noriega as a meeting site’. Another SECRET/NOFORN letter from US Army Intelligence and Security Command, signed by Brigadier General Ira C. Owens, Deputy Commander, dated February 29, 1996, describes the project: ‘In 1983 this Headquarters initiated a project named LANDBROKER. The project appears to have been […]

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Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Dissent

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] he had been much involved in the Ulster troubles as Northern Ireland Secretary. Then as Home Secretary, and responsibility for MI5, he had to deal with the IRA mainland bombing campaign. Two, he had a long record of seeking to bring Nazi war criminals to justice and was highly regarded in the Jewish community […]

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The View From The Bridge

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] of being a conspiracy theorist. They then take him to task for not taking at face value the role of Red Action members in support of the IRA. ‘From O’Hara’s standpoint it is preferable to invent a mythical third party to which the shooting can be attributed, rather than wrestle with the uncomfortable reality […]

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The Angry Brigade: A history of Britain’s first urban guerilla group

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] to make the case seem stronger. Barker tells us he was a guilty man framed. Did the AB have any effect? Not really: the arrival of the IRA with real bombs, not spectaculars, shunted the AB off into a historical siding. Barker and Christie do their best to find something of value in their […]

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Conspiracy: Plots, Lies and Cover-ups

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] get political control over the propaganda apparatus, which was then being directed as much at Northern Ireland Secretary of State Merlyn Rees as it was against the IRA. Bennett makes it sound as though Cudlipp was in charge of black propaganda. Bennett then tells us: ‘The British establishment obviously decided, according to conspiracy theorists […]

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