Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[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)
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[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 […]
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 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd are discussed. ‘Holroyd was apparently confined to a mental hospital after he made public the turf war that raged between MI5 and MI6 over who ran operations in Northern Ireland’. (p. 23) 2 ‘Apparently’? Fred was briefly sent to the Army mental hospital at Netley while he was still […]