Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] ‘the real inside story’. Somewhere along the way, for example, I have acquired the idea that his second and third books, MI5: A Matter of Trust and MI6 were both something like in-house histories, given – edited no doubt – to Allason in the great spook rivalries of the 1980s. Is this true? Maybe […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] of names from the British Right, from the context obviously there as some kind of allies. They are: The Society for Individual Freedom, G.K.Young (SIF member, ex MI6, Unison Committee for Action, Monday Club), Gerald Howarth (now a Tory MP: at the time in SIF), Francis Bennion (SIF, the brains behind the attempt to […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] the policies of Merlyn Rees, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; The authors examine: the role of MI5 in domestic politics; the struggle between MI5 and MI6 for control in Northern Ireland; the National Association for Freedom, and, in particular, that organisation’s links to British intelligence; and show the links between some of […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] likely to be futile because of its decentralised nature as was shown recently when the government was unable to prevent the distribution of a list of alleged MI6 officers.(32) Governments, law enforcement and intelligence agencies have become increasingly concerned, citing the Internet’s use by criminals, terrorists and paedophiles to justify attempts to impose controls. […]
Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] there was no mention of any wound in the post mortem. Andrew Rosthorn writes: Kenneth de Courcy, 80 year old former personal agent for Churchill’s wartime MI6 chief, Sir Stewart Menzies, says that two files have been stolen from his personnal archive, which is preserved at the Hoover Institution in the University of […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] is the memorandum written by Matthew Rycroft, dated 23 July 2002, after a meeting at Downing Street to discuss Iraq. In that Rycroft reports ‘C’, head of MI6, as saying, ‘There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable.’ A CIA analyst at the time, Paul Pillar, dates the […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] Sunday Times, and have already read there. America good! Bin Laden bad! Stella Rimington a bold rebel! Carlos the Jackal bad! Look at this picture of the MI6 building! Look at another picture of the gates of same! On pp. 20-21 an unnamed EYE SPY! reporter attends a (paid!) press conference of Sir Steven […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] stage, with much more powerful economies, who have only small or nonexistent external intelligence gathering operations. Japan or Germany, for example. Could the money Britain spends on MI6 not be spent better elsewhere, on health care or education?’ A flicker of a smile crossed McColl’s lips. “Ah, young man, you overlook the fact that […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] the South African Information Department in Pretoria) proving that he had been framed. Martin Dollinchek, alias Martin Donaldson (a BOSS agent who was captured when the CIA, MI6 and BOSS mounted a joint attempt to invade the Seychelles in an attempt to bring Boss’s agent of influence James Mancham back to power, to rid […]