Hilda Murrell: a death in the private sector

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] my own way. During my duties with MI5 I also maintained a very close personal and professional relationship with an officer from the Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6). Whilst a serving SIS officer (he) joined a private detective agency with which I was associated, and carried out private investigations of a covert nature. He […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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….’ […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] few of us were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no. That’s what I call fear-mongering, un-justified, proven wrong.” ’ MI6, BP and oil Reportedly the subject of a D-notice after it appeared in the Daily Mail, and subsequently withdrawn from that paper’s Website, Glen Owen’s ‘Hookers, […]

In Brief

Lobster Issue 4 (1984)

[…] Common Cause, Economic League, The Freedom Association, Institute of Economic Affairs, Social Affairs Unit. ‘Ernest Bevin’s Black Propaganda Unit’ and ‘Here Is The News – Courtesy of MI6’ Richard Fletcher, Tribune 2nd September and 9th September 1983 Two large pieces. The first is on the work of the Information Research Department of the Foreign […]

Willy Brandt: the “Good German”

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] intelligence.(7) When the Brandt-led SPD alliance with the Liberals was elected to office in October 1969, relations between some sections of the BND (West Germany’s equivalent of MI6) and Bonn reached a new low. Many of the leading SPD figures, including Brandt when he had been Mayor of West Berlin, had been placed under […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] Probably not, even in the best of circumstances; certainly not when the document in question happened to be lying about in an unguarded room in Baghdad. Would MI6 think it worthwhile fabricating such a document to nail Galloway? Of course. However we regard Galloway there is no doubt that the Telegraph has been used […]

My enemy’s enemy…: Museum Street

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] the financial institutions of the country. There was the Freeman-Jays affair, in which Rohan Jays, a supposed NZ SIS man (who we now know to have been MI6) passed a police report from SIS files to Auckland businessman Paul Freeman, who embarrassed Labour Prime Minister Bill Rowling by handing him the papers in public. […]

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