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 […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] killing, both on and off duty, of over 300 of their colleagues. One of the most controversial cases Simpson investigated was the dramatic kidnapping by the Provisional IRA of 45 year-old Thomas Niedermayer, a German national, who was the Managing Director of the Grundig electronics factory on the outskirts of Belfast. He had been […]
Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)
[PDF file]: […] Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana and Zambia – and World Feature Services. 16 17 Guardian 27 January 1978. IRD set up a “counter subversion unit” to deal with the IRA. It published a manual on the IRA distributed to journalists and others, including ISC’s Iain Hamilton. (Guardian 27 January 1978) Sections of the manual appeared in […]
Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)
[PDF file]: […] members of the Communist Party who were de facto agents of the USSR. Another of MI5’s themes of the time – the Soviet Union behind the Provisional IRA – was the subject of another Stewart-Smith pamphlet published in 1976, written by John Biggs-Davison, at the time the Tory frontbench spokesman on Northern Ireland.21 Now […]