Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] this isn’t it. West’s determination to stay on-side with his state informants prevents him from doing anything credible. In a comment on Stephen Dorril’s new book about MI6 on intelforum (www.intelforum.org) West concluded with this: ‘Dorril’s book resembles (sic), in my judgment, a useful work of reference for what has appeared in the newspapers’. […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] They present a devastating picture of Blair and his court that brims over with telling detail. Of particular interest to readers of Lobster is the revelation that MI6 head-hunted Charles Clarke when he was Neil Kinnock’s political adviser. It is good to know that the Home Office is in a safe pair of hands. […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] Duke of Hamilton later in the war got RAF permission to sue the Communist Daily Worker newspaper for suggesting he was part of a pro-Nazi peace plot. MI6, who had in 1940 intercepted a letter to the Duke of Hamilton, sent from Berlin via Lisbon, had exonerated the Duke of being implicated in peace […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
Spy Wars: Moles, mysteries and deadly games Tennent H. Begley London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, h/b, £18.99 Begley was one of James Angleton’s allies in CIA counterintelligence and this book is the Angletonian view of the Nosenko case, one of the touchstones or causes célèbres of the CIA in the post-war […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] the London- based Forum World Features ‘news service’, which was subsequently exposed in the mainstream American and British press as a propaganda agency for the CIA and MI6. For excellent summaries of the histories of Crozier and ISC, see State Research 1 (October 1977) and appendices 1 and 8 of Lobster 11. Nevertheless, many […]
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 […]
