Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££
[…] Military Intelligence has tapped the phones of many Ulster politicians including Ian Paisley, Paddy Devlin, Gerry Fitt and Harry West. The latter tapped after an approach from MI6 to stand against Bobby Sands in the Fermanagh by-election. (Sunday News 5th June 1983) ‘X’ is quoted as saying: “It’s impossible to say how many phones […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] we can all study it — they gave it to a tame historian, hoping to bask in lots of favourable publicity while helping Mitrokhin to supplement his MI6 pension. The spooks’ chosen ghost-writer, Christopher Andrew, is a disingenuous creep who has sold out his academic integrity to slavishly toe the secret state’s party line […]
Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££
[…] with the cooperation/protection of the Bulgarian state. It is an unexceptional picture. Intelligence services all over the world are plugged into the drugs/guns business. Even our own MI6 tried it, as the Howard Marks story revealed some time ago. (3) That the Bulgarians should be so engaged should surprise only the innocent, and shock […]
Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££
[…] the United Kingdon 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 (emphasis added) propaganda inspired by the terrorists and […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] gradually through the ranks of associates at Stoy. Given this, it is possible that he was merely a conduit for Cold War funds from other sources, either MI6 or, more likely, the CIA. Berlusconi Andersen’s government contacts don’t stop there. With the election of Silvio Berlusconi in 1994, Italy nearly became the first Western […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] an absolute exemption for information that was supplied directly or indirectly, or relates to the following security bodies: the Security Service (MI5), the Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6), GCHQ, Special Forces …the National Criminal Intelligence Service…a certificate from a minister is all that is needed for the exemption to apply…….The security services in the […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] never alleged this. “In an account he claims to have written in 1976 as evidence of his intimate involvement in the intelligence world, Wallace talks of an MI6 operative he knew. In fact that document reveals an event – the death of a policeman – that actually occurred in December 1981.” I think I’ve […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] that Mr Adams would, either.) On the British end of things Adams tells us, inter alia There has been a complete purge of the upper echelons of MI6 in favour of younger people. (So a lot of disgruntled senior people to leak in the future?) SIS has got a lot of good sources inside […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] between the US and Britain was due in part to misunderstandings about covert action. The US favoured ‘ Nasser…. gradually with the help of the CIA and MI6, while Eden, Lloyd, and Macmillan preferred to proceed more swiftly with the help of the Israeli army and the Royal Navy.’ Douglas Little, ‘Mission impossible: the […]