Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] extension of SIS, this appointment added some little credence to the notion that John Smith, like his Glasgow University contemporary Baroness ‘Meta’ Ramsay, had been recruited by MI6 while a student. It might also help make intelligible Smith’s role on the Bilderberg steering group. What is The Guardian? An interesting piece on The Guardian […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] p. 127. 1 Jewish Chronicle, London, 15 January 2016: 2 Tamara Deutscher, preface to the Non-Jewish Jew And Other Essays, (London: Verso, 2017). 3 assistant chief of MI6 had released a large amount of hard currency to persuade Tancred Borenius to take a flight to neutral Portugal. From there he took a dangerous journey […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] that period, a permanent network of stable private companies was established – ready to fight wars for profit with the covert encouragement of the Foreign Office and MI6. As Miller puts it, by the 1980s these companies ‘were part of a booming industry, fuelled by free market Thatcherism and relentless privatisation, and supercharged by […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] as Foreign Secretary Johnson switching Carrie Symonds, now his wife, from Conservative Party HQ employment to become his FCO special adviser. His social arrangements – seeing ex- MI6 chief Sir John Scarlett dining with former US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff – point to a world most of us rarely glimpse but whose actions […]