The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] are therefore inaccessible. (5) Who dares to say that our civil servants are lacking in initiative? Same old Con Undeterred by the disinformation given to him by MI6 about Gadaffi’s son which led to a successful libel action against The Sunday Telegraph,(6)and undeterred by all the nonsense he ran in the run-up the attack […]

Reading Italy

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] itself, involved in them. Christie’s book presents great problems for this reviewer. Who, in this country, is qualified to say anything intelligent about it? Some members of MI6 maybe. This kind of parapolitical research into anything just isn’t practised here: Christie’s book is virtually without precedent in this country. So, the first thing to […]

The Syndicate

Book cover
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] is still transparently false. There is no ‘syndicate’, no matter how loosely you define it – and his definition is very loose indeed. And how long are authors going to continue taking seriously John Coleman (he of the ‘Committee of 300’ nonsense, cited extensively here), and his description of himself as a former MI6 officer?

Who’s afraid of the KGB

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] society. On this it is worth looking at Stephen de Mowbray’s Soviet Deception and the Onset of the Cold War in Encounter (July/August 1984). De Mowbray, ex MI6, is one of the quartet who wrote the introduction to Golitsyn’s New Lies For Old, discussed in Lobster 5. He argues that the Soviet Union misled […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] we should also mention that MacShane is on the policy council of the Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) whose chair in the House of Lords is old MI6 hand Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale. LFI It proved to be a heavy security presence in Whitehall for an LFI event in April that caused the re-routing […]

Deep Black: the secrets of space espionage (Book Review) & Journals

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] Meyer Lansky in Bermuda. Parker paints a picture of the British royal family tinged with homosexuality, drug addiction and general decadence, and attributes to a hitherto secret MI6 report, allegations that the Duchess had been an enthusiastic participant in threesomes in some high class brothels in China. Another version of this territory is said […]

Rebranding SIS

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] as internally. For this reason, the public is told: ‘…..fraud investigators from the Benefit Agency are being taught how to use surveillance techniques by former SAS and MI6 officers. The company, AMA Associates, a security agency, has coached nearly 1000 government fraud officers on a Professionalism in Security (PINS) course accredited by Portsmouth university…….’ […]

Freedom of Information — new access legislation

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] it is. Absolute exemptions are not subject to any public interest test, and include information supplied by, or concerning: the Security Service, MI5; the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6; GCHQ; the Special Forces, e.g. the SAS; tribunals concerning intelligence and interception of communications including the Investigatory Powers Tribunal; and the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) […]

Brief Notes on the Political Importance of Secret Societies (Part 2)

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] to the capture of a small army of Soviet ‘moles’ in Britain, Sweden, West Germany, Israel, Denmark and France. His most important catch was the high ranking MI6 official George Blake, whose unmasking led in turn to the exposure of Kim Philby, the most famous ‘mole’ of all time. Most disturbing of all, however, […]

The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

Book review
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] example, to show their methods – the deaths of the British journalist Jonathan Moyle in Chile, Ian Spiro, said to be working either for the CIA or MI6 – or both – and Abbie Hoffman. Moyle’s in there because he was interested, apparently, in some of the same people as Casolaro; and Spiro’s in […]

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