Sir John Sawer’s speech and some aspects of SIS PR

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] T op down language is always a give-away and can be a pleasing indication of progress. So, for example, in Professor 123 Winter 2010 Jeffery’s reference work, MI6, the history of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909 – 1949, there is an example of the huge lobbying pressure that the educator – a crucial spook […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] his experiences or 31 32 Thomas E. Mahl, ss (Dulles, Virginia: Brassey’s, 1999) 33 34 Armen Victorian’s account of this is at . 12 United States by MI6 during WW2. Under the light cover of British Security Coordination, with the permission of President Roosevelt, MI6 attacked the isolationist opposition to American’s entry into the […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] said he was going to Europe to meet with a CIA team led by Dr. Gottlieb…Sargant was satisfied that the CIA team were doing similar work that MI6 were conducting in Europe – executing without trial known Nazis, especially SS men…Sargant saw Frank Olson after his brief visit to Norway and West Germany, including […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] of the Churchill government. Prior to departing on his mission for Finland, Borenius was briefed by Claude Dansey and sent with the knowledge of the head of MI6, Colonel See or and also or the conclusion of which appears to be at odds with the facts. 28 Quoted in Matthew & Harrison (eds.), The […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] (paper) pages from The Spectator of 13-27 December 2025 with ‘A secret life’ by James MacManus. This is a detailed account of the life of a senior MI6 officer, the late Roger Horrell.12 There was also an obituary of Horrell in The Times but it is behind their paywall. However, the Telegraph obituary has […]

Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland Peter Taylor London: Bloomsbury, 2023 Hardback, £17 Nick Must This, the most recent in a long line of Peter Taylor’s works on the conflict in Northern Ireland, has been described in other reviews as ‘compelling’,1 ‘a gripping exploration’2 […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] it uses techniques that are so close to those of state espionage, it should come as no surprise that Palantir Technologies has Sir Mark Allen (the ex- MI6 officer who is a suspect in rendition cases) as ‘a senior adviser’.34 Sir Mark is an honorary fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, specialising in Arabic […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] was conducted by the father of Labour Shadow 1 2 3 Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander and attended by, among others, Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale, the former senior MI6 figure who advised John Smith. Smith’s widow was for a time on the board of Hakluyt, run by several ex-MI6 people (Lobsters passim).4 When I read […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] Thus the headline in a piece by Covert Action’s editor, Jeremy 7 Kuzmarov, on 4 August 2023.18 The article’s subheading piles it on: ‘Secret Meeting with British MI6 Head Richard Moore Points to the Likelihood That Zelensky Is a British Intelligence Agent’. This was the first paragraph: In October 2020, on a visit to […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] Thus the headline in a piece by Covert Action’s editor, Jeremy 7 Kuzmarov, on 4 August 2023.18 The article’s subheading piles it on: ‘Secret Meeting with British MI6 Head Richard Moore Points to the Likelihood That Zelensky Is a British Intelligence Agent’. This was the first paragraph: In October 2020, on a visit to […]

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