Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] 10 Attlee, too, went full term in 1950, and almost lost. In 1963 the US (specifically the CIA) lost patience with the British old boy network running MI6, following the imprisonment of John Vassall, Philby’s defection and the news that John Profumo MP had, possibly, shared a girl friend with the Soviet naval attaché […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] one of whom was a representative on the Committee and two of whom were members of the Committee’s Jeffery’s book contains a total of 196 names of MI6 officers, 10 MI6 staff (administration), 57 agents of MI6 and 30 officers of foreign intelligence organisations. 2 secretariat, the FCO sought to rely on section 23(1) […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] reports of MI5 using this kind of tactic to try and recruit Muslims in the UK. See or . 2 2 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. […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] discussion in Keegan’s book. It’s only in a real crisis that we learn what is truly important. P.S. A light is shown on the hapless nature of MI6 who, following the Black Wednesday events of 1992, were looking for explanations for the sudden loss of confidence in sterling. Keegan was invited to the Pot […]