Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
[PDF file]: […] lobby encouraged war with Japan with increasingly impossible diplomatic demands on Japan and then by suppressing intelligence about the pending attack on Pearl Harbour.5 It then allowed MI6 to assemble a 1000 strong force – British Security Co-ordination – in Washington and worked with it in 1940/41 in one the biggest covert operations ever […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] to interest Western governments in this. Patrick Karegeya actually visited London (it was on this occasion that Wrong first met him) and handed ‘the recordings over to MI6, which circulated them around the Foreign Office and Department for International Development’. In the USA, the recordings were handed over to the FBI. As she points […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] government to such an extent that the arms industry and the government had become symbiotic. Eisenhower, incidentally, emerges from this 1 For my money, Stephen Dorril’s 1998 MI6: 50 Years of Special Operations was rendered nearly unreadable by the denseness of its prose and the distraction of all the little sidelines that kept opening […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
[PDF file]: […] a point which then seemed trivial. ‘Paris is well worth a mass’ – Henri IV This is the complaint from Thomas concerning contacting David Irving: ‘An ex- MI6 officer friend of mine was staggered to hear that despite the historian David Irving having been sent to prison in Austria in 2006 for denying the […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
[PDF file]: […] Mitrokhin’s files, or had it been added by Dr Andrew?’ (p. 313) Symonds does not tell the reader that Andrew’s sources could only have been MI5 or MI6: perhaps he thinks it too obvious to state. ‘Another bizarre assertion was that I had “made the dramatic claim that Denis Healey, the Secretary of State […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] uncovered you unload upon him all the blame for every unsolved 28 See West (see note 23) p. 850. ‘Was Kim Philby offered escape to Moscow by MI6 agent?’, Daily Mail 1 March 2014 or . 29 30 See note 29. ‘In from the cold: a new book reveals the inner world of British […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] question and no-one on the committee asks him what he means. And no wonder he evaded it: for it was the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) that MI6 (SIS) had been dickering with since the 1990s and which was the subject of some of the most disgusting real politik in which the British state […]