Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

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[…] Wallace and Fred Holroyd are discussed. ‘Holroyd after he MI5 and Ireland’. was apparently confined to a mental hospital made public the turf war that raged between MI6 over who ran operations in Northern (p. 23) ‘Apparently’? Fred was briefly sent to the Army mental hospital at Netley while he was still serving and […]

The Mossad Spy It’s not what you’ve done it’s who you are… the transgender spy

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[…] met the second love of her live, Jim. The third section of this extraordinary tale begins in 1993 when she was recruited into an illegal joint MI5/ MI6 operation against Asil Nadir. A TurkishCypriot businessman, Nadir had built up a large business empire, Polly Peck International, in the UK before being charged with fraud. […]

The Defence of the Realm

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[…] he was paranoid. Yes, Wilson attributed too much to MI5 when some of the briefings and smear stories were coming from other sources – for example former MI6 deputy chief G. K. Young (though from whom did Young get his information?). Some of those who came along a decade after Wilson had tried to […]

Reporting on Hitler: Rothay Reynolds and the British Press in Nazi Germany by Will Wainewright

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: When Freedom Shrieked and the Daily Mail cheered Reporting on Hitler: Rothay Reynolds and the British Press in Nazi Germany Will Wainewright London: Biteback Publishing, 2017, £20.00, h/b John Newsinger In 1939, the leftwing publisher Victor Gollancz issued a powerful indictment of the Nazis, When Freedom Shrieked. It quickly sold out, going into a second […]

South of the border (occasional snippets from)

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] (‘an early career platform that connects students and graduates with the opportunities, advice and insights they need to kickstart their careers’) hinted at such, saying ‘MI5 and MI6 may be different organisations, but we share the same goal’. See or . 1 See or . 2 3 See or 4 1 death that resulted […]

Whose Prospect?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Whose Prospect? Solomon Hughes Prospect magazine have confirmed a series of connections to the British secret state, including dinner meetings, seminars and taking on the son of MI6 boss John Scarlett as an intern. The links with the security services are a potential embarrassment for the magazine, which has been compared to Encounter, a […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and then introduced its partial ban on fox-hunting. Any link between the two events was denied, of course. See . 73 or 74 23 ‘Revealed: MI5 and MI6 are training senior spies from Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt’ ‘”Paralysing a nation”: Evidence emerges of Royal Navy’s complicity in Saudiled sea blockade of Yemen’ ‘Revealed: […]

Who really killed Chris Hani? by Chris Nicholson

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] begins badly when the LaRouche magazine Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) is quoted at length on pages 6 and 7. EIR claims that SAIMR was a front for MI6 but offers no evidence for that; nor for its next claim that former MI6 man Nicholas Elliott was ‘a controller of the London-based Sikh radical, Jagjit […]

Secrecy in Britain

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] security services accountable as totally lacking in substance, Ministers and the Government have total unaccountable power in this area. This has meant that the security services MI5, MI6 and GCHQ have effectively been exempt from the provisions of the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Acts which were brought in the 1980s and 2005 […]

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