Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] times annually by two British eccentrics with a limited distribution to “about 50 like-minded friends.” N.B. It is anti-intelligence, specifically against the Western intelligence services, particularly MI5, MI6 and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The subject matter is apparently varied, eclectic, and highly interesting and informative for intelligence professionals and buffs.’ While good reviews […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina Uki Goni London: Granta Books, 2002, £20 If there was a category of work called Detective History, Uki Goni really ought to be awarded Book of the Year. Undeterred by the shredding and incineration of key documents, rebuffs from the supporters of Peron […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] interest is clear; for example, John Young, of the cryptome site, had received telephone calls on behalf of SIS, asking him to remove the CX95 document (concerning MI6 involvement with a plot to kill Gaddafy) from his website, but refused. But should anything be published on the internet? John Young said they would publish […]
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, […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] around the KGB defector Oleg Gordiefsky. Gordiefsky’s public role, the quid pro quo for the pension he is now receiving, is to bolster the key myth of MI6, that while we may be the junior partner in the intelligence relationship with the U.S., we’re the best, the most subtle and the most reliable — […]
Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££
[PDF file]: […] Army began expanding its psychological operations training facilities – for the first time including civil servants on its courses. (8) In London the former no. 2 at MI6 and Monday Club activist, George Kennedy Young, began setting up the Unison Committee for Action with Ross McWhirter. In short, by the end of 1973 an […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] Terrorism,1 T. J. Coles mentions that ex-MI5 officer David Shayler has recently claimed that Ramadan Abedi (the father of Manchester Arena suicide bomber, Salman Abedi) was the MI6 asset who had previous been identified solely with the cypher ‘Tunworth’. Shayler first mentioned Tunworth in the late 1990s, when he and Annie Machon (his then […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] if he persisted in the claim. That was last time Radcliffe heard from McCann and it was also the end of his collaboration with Marks.19 6 – MI6 The writers for Friends/Frendz magazine, as well as James McCann and Howard Marks, were all on the radar of the security services. A retired police Special […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] been better illustrated than by this country’s foreign policy towards Libya in the past 20 years or so. Former MI5 officer David Shayler reported that in 1996 MI6 had paid £100,000 to a Libyan Islamist group for the assassination of Colonel Gadaffi; and, although denied by the British formal foreign policy apparatus, a great […]
