Heritage of Stone; JFK and JFK

Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

[…] against the Right, and is also part of that movement. These pivotal events also flush out the right-wing media.(3) Here the Sunday Telegraph — allegiance basically with MI6 — ran a leader on JFK on February 2, titled ‘Reshooting Kennedy’. This rehashed not only the central theme of the 1967 CIA memo on the […]

Lobster Issue 51: Contents

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] and their efficiency, my thanks. This issue contains a striking example of how the world has changed. Which newspaper has been running stories about alleged involvement of MI6 in the assassination of Princess Diana? That famous lefty rag, The Daily Express. Looking at Terry Hanstock’s account of the recent developments in the Di murder […]

Miscellaneous: With Friends like these

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

[…] British state. ‘The instigators of the attack were not Private Eye satirists but professional rivals…..experts from the Sovietology world, Kremlinologists on the fringes of the CIA or MI6, other writers and journalists who specialized in Soviet issues, academics like Leonard Shapiro, rival translators like Max Haward……. were gripped by the paranoia of those days, […]

Curried Knight: Maxwell Knight and the MI5 in-house history

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] matters inside this country came under the control of the Security Service, where it was later known as the M Section .’ So he was working for MI6 from 1924/5 to 1931. MI5’s Fishy Official Curry (as I like to call it) was originally intended to be a survey of MI5’s wartime work, but […]

Puppet Masters: the political use of terrorism in Italy

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] journalist in Italy and came across what appeared to be evidence in 1972 that Roberto Calvi and the assistant British Military Attache in Rome — presumably an MI6 officer under cover — were funnelling money to the Italian far right. No, Peace for the Wicked is £4.50 from Hale at 31 Ada Road, Canterbury, […]

Downing Street Diary: With Harold Wilson in No. 10

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] Lord Wigg, the former George Wigg MP, who, for the first couple of years of the Labour government of 1964/5, had been Wilson’s advisor on MI5 and MI6. This relationship came to grief when Wilson followed Wigg’s advice in the D-Notice Affair and came off worst in a pissing contest with MI5. After which, […]

The British Right

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] right’ Young Tory, Hoiles made a highly publicised visit to Central America in 1985 where he went ‘on patrol’ with the ‘freedom fighters’, was photographed holding an MI6 rifle and so forth. Hoiles is fronting the UK end of an American operation. The original idea of CFN came from one Charles Moser of the […]

Spinning the European Union: pro-European propaganda campaigns in the British media

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] the Information Research Department (IRD). This covert unit, established by the Labour Government in 1948, was financed from the Secret Intelligence Services budget, with close links to MI6. The government’s campaign had three stages. The first involved the dissemination of information to the press and public; the second, from the announcement of the terms […]

Another Pinay sighting

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] as a mixture of fact and fiction. I invited him to correct any errors we had made but have heard nothing.) Fielding’s account of McLean’s life makes it plain that McLean was an MI6 officer for most, if not all, of the post-war period. If true, Fielding’s claim above about Julian Amery is new. RR

The Angolan hostages episode, and more …

Lobster Issue 5 (1984)

[…] some British hostages. In some reports, in Private Eye in particular, it has been claimed that the whole affair was orchestrated by an alliance of right-wingers in MI6, the Foreign Office, Unita, and Lonrho. There is no direct evidence of this but it is clear that some people are highly embarrassed by Britain’s support […]

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