A key for a Clockwork Orange

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] our collection which support the claim that Burgess worked for MI5.’ Note that careful ‘not yet’. And note also the reference is only to MI5 and not MI6. But by the same token, there is absolutely nothing inherently improbable about a British novelist having a second job in intelligence: think of Graham Greene, Frederick […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] someone abolish proper nouns while I wasn’t watching? 35 reportedly at the centre of the piece. The story was a complete invention. In 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 […]

The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998), former SAS Warrant Officer Ken Connor, who was involved in the creation of what later became known as ‘14 Int’, noted: ‘MI5 and MI6 had only one thing in common: a shared contempt for the RUC Special Branch, which they regarded as staffed by incompetents.’ He also reported that MI5 […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] weak.’1 8 Given the diminishment in the UK’s fortunes caused by what happened after 1939 this seems a not unreasonable conclusion. After the war Klop switched to MI6, dealing frequently with Kim Philby. He worked through to his retirement in 1957 but the account of his life seems to indicate that he did little […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] Mosley and radio see Stephen Dorril, Black Shirt (2006) pp. 387437. Mosley’s negotiator on the project was Peter Eckersley, a former BBC engineer. Eckersley also worked by MI6, hence perhaps, the failure of the project. Mosley does not appear to have had direct dealings with Plugge, but the two had a common friend, Colin […]

View from Lob 73

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[…] context of the alleged Russian hacking of the presidential election, the American website Politico ran a story about the large operation run in the United States by MI6 during WW2. Under the light cover of British Security Coordination, with the permission of the then President Roosevelt, they attacked the isolationist opposition to American’s entry […]

Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments by Ulf Schmidt

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] work back in the US. Schmidt then goes on to discuss LSD experiments with service personnel at Porton Down in the 1950s done at the behest of MI6 who were much vexed by questions of mind control, truth drugs and brain washing, and that’s it. End of the discussion of ‘truth drugs’, LSD, mind […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[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: […]

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

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[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 […]

Who really killed Chris Hani? by Chris Nicholson

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[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 […]

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