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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]