Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] days of Elizabeth I and Francis 17 18 Walsingham. This explains the continual presence of the present Queen in the background of many narratives concerning MI5 and MI6. It’s more than simply the ultimate loyalty of the two services to the head of state rather than to her government, it’s a matter of living […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] Goleniewski actually meant any of this is unclear. Coogan writes that Goleniewski ‘single-handedly destroyed Polish intelligence, exposed Soviet control over West Germany’s spy service and saved Britain’s MI6 spy agency from certain catastrophe.’ (p. 5) And perhaps Goleniewski was the last defector of any importance. But with this much hindsight it is clear none […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] for reliable anti-Soviet bodies during the Cold War and the desire on the part of survivors of the war to ensure that it never happened again. Robin Ramsay 3 The best account previously was that of Paul Lashmar and James Oliver, ‘How MI6 pushed Britain to join Europe’, Sunday Telegraph, 27 April 1997 at .
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] the integrity of your justiciary because the appeal papers prove Iran was involved….. I knew this information back then so you can rest assured both MI5 and MI6 knew.’ 6 Don’t you just love Baer’s notion that freeing al-Megrahi was about ‘protecting the integrity of judiciary’? As if it had any left!7 Subservience produces […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] the Middle East was reflected in the contribution of Lady Manningham-Buller, the former MI5 deputy chief. She told the Lords that when she and the head of MI6 met the Bush team in Washington shortly after 9/11, ‘the decision was about al-Qaeda, its base in Afghanistan and its close relationship with the Taliban. I […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] students.5 Among the luminaries are the Daily Telegraph’s Con Coughlin, who is a Senior Visiting Fellow.6 His profile is light on any detail, especially his relationship with MI6. Enter ‘Coughlin’ into the search engine on Lobster’s home page and you’ll get the fuller drift. Many of the ex-spooks are quite open about their past […]