Golitsyn

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] account does Rosenbaum little justice. His essay is extremely clever and runs through all the possible permutations of the Philby/Angleton relationship: Philby as KGB, pretending to be MI6; Philby as MI6 pretending to be KGB while pretending to be MI6; Angleton as KGB; and so on. The whole ‘wilderness of mirrors’ is laid out […]

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Friends of the British Secret State

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] to crack down on IRA killer squads on the Continent … Mrs Thatcher, through her Security Coordinator, Sir Colin Figures, has issued unprecedented instructions to MI5 and MI6 in the hunt for the killers.” The same day Massie produced a piece about a “millionaire businessman said to be a KGB spymaster (who) is to […]

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Sources. Publications etc

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] the Web site of FAIR, publishers of Extra! at http://www.fair.org./fair/ Lobster is not on the net. Not due to any prejudice or technophobia, simple lack of money. MI6: The Inside Story 2 hour VHS video from First Direct, 1995, no price stated. Four, half-hour interviews – monologues, really – by two former FO wallahs, […]

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The Enemy Within; the IRA’s War Against the British

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] the United Kingdom believed that unorthodox methods and techniques were required in the war. The intervention of these groupings, which included Special Branch, military intelligence, MI5 and MI6, was uncoordinated, Much has been written about that period, some of it honest journalism, but most of it propaganda inspired by the terrorists and their supporters….’ […]

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Defending the Realm: MI5 and the Shayler Affair

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] series – he comments on the hypocrisy of his persecution while the former SIS officer with the pseudonym Alan Judd, gets access to the diary of early MI6 chief Mansfield Cummings: ‘I know Alan Judd’s real name, but I can’t reveal it. He formerly worked in the secretariat or, in normal language, the MI6 […]

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The Conspirators: secrets of an Iran-Contra insider

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] Customs and the rest of the secret state; and, when the whole stupid mess ended up in court, the late Alan Clark MP was unwilling to see MI6 agent and Matrix Churchill executive Paul Henderson wrongly convicted and blew the gaff – the occasion of his famous phrase ‘economical with the actualité’. Was Matrix […]

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More views from the bridge

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] The Gordon Logan story In Lobster 41 I referred to some articles on the Cryptome website by Gordon Logan. Another has appeared on Cryptome since then, ‘ MI6, Bush and Foot and Mouth.’ (6) This begins with one of Logan’s most striking and most implausible claims: ‘The author, Gordon Logan, triggered the premature Moscow […]

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Northern Ireland Act 1974

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] he worked were “genuinely honest men trying to do the best job in the circumstances. They were in a no-win situation.” When he was recruited as an MI6 officer, he said of them that they were not disagreeable; their ethics were reasonable; they were seeking a political solution. His complaint, which eventually led to […]

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Spooks. Hollis. Tomlinson

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] and dining favoured journalists and editors‘ (emphasis added). Tomlinson later alleged that Dominic Lawson, editor of the Sunday Telegraph, and former editor of the Spectator, was an MI6 agent. This was run through the House of Commons by Brian Sedgemore MP. Cue many hundreds of column inches of newsprint. At the end of which […]

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SIS: Dearlove, Spedding and PR

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] successful running of a section set up to counter Middle Eastern terrorism.’ This, I assume, means that Sir David at one time headed up a joint MI5/ MI6 counter-terrorism group known as G7 which ‘was disbanded when MI5 felt there was too much emphasis on political intelligence rather than counter-terrorism intelligence.’ (11) That is […]

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