Using the UK FOIA, part III

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) […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] to capital letters creeping in. Surely it’s British Army not British army. Or did someone abolish proper nouns while I wasn’t watching? 35 the great MI5 vs MI6 battle of the period, the Sunday Times, then edited by Andrew Neil, was on MI5’s side. The lobby In this column below I noted that there […]

Apocryphylia

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 […]

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 […]

Lobster review: 1992 guide to intelligence periodics

Lobster Issue

[…] West, not the East. The Soviet Union, the KGB and the Eastern Bloc countries (when they existed) are largely ignored. The main focus is on the “bad” MI6 and MIS, with the CIA close behind, and other services with ties to these principals. The articles are written from the Britisl1 political left and it […]

Secrecy in Britain

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[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 […]

Chris Hani book copy

Lobster Issue

[…] It begins badly, with the LaRouche magazine Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) 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 […]

My Life, Our Times by Gordon Brown

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] readers. Only after Chilcot in 2010 did he at last realise ‘how we were all misled on the existence of WMDs’. It was all the fault of MI6 who ‘reported chapter and verse the evidence against Saddam and impressed upon me that it was well-founded’. He was actually told the precise location of the […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[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 […]

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