Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] with the Shah. In Teheran, Musadegh was also in constant contact with the Americans about any developments. Finally the parties reached an agreement. On a yacht the MI6 station chief told me… Later the MI6 station chief in Iran told me that at the beginning the Shah did not agree to return to Teheran, […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] policy (NCND). Exemption certificates authorising a blanket ban on access to personal data processed by the organisations were signed on behalf of the three intelligence agencies, MI5, MI6 and GCHQ.(30) Subject access requests made to the agencies have met with a response referring to these certificates, and claiming exemption from the subject access and […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] Norfolk to clear Wallace of the ‘It’s A Knock Out’ murder. Mrs Anne Wallace met her husband Colin whilst she was assistant in Conmower intelligence office of MI6 in Belfast. She is now personal secretary to the Duke of Norfolk, who retired as Director of Military Intelligence, M.O.D. in 1967. The Duke is a […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] going on in secret and not so secret prisons. We know thanks to the excellent research done by that elements of the British government, be they MI5, MI6 or diplomats from the FCO, have been involved. Yet we seem unable to stop it. Civic society raises its voices in anger, yet nothing changes. As […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] introduced after US threat to refuse information sharing. Observer 13th May Account of four mysterious deaths of GCHQ personnel. A rash of ‘suicides’. Sunday Times 15th April MI6 P.M. believed to have agreed to legislation that would make naming any member of MI6 a criminal offence. A statute “being drafted in Whitehall” will also […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] thus ensure that the President got a mandate from Congress for the attack on Iraq. The moment of conspiracy In Britain, at the 11th hour very senior MI6 and Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) used a human source who claimed – falsely, of course – that Iraq had been developing chemical and biological warfare capacities. […]
Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££
[…] appeared and then vanished again. But Irish press reports suggest that the bugging was merely one part of a complicated story which leads to a failed 1982 MI6 coup against then Prime Minister Charles Haughey. The story (Sunday News 25th March 1984) is long, complicated, and itself apparently based on press reports from the […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] Co Ltd (the British holding company of Royal Dutch Shell), corporate member of the Anglo-German Fellowship; founder of Samuel’s (merchant bank); trustee of National and Tate Galleries. MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service). Advocated negotiated peace, 1940. Club: Carlton, White’s, Orleans, Burlington Fine Arts, Buck’s, Bath, Beefsteak. (Stokes, Lobster 19) Beaverbrook (Lord) William Maxwell Aitken, newspaper […]
Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
[…] by the politicians, and not by the Civil Service – what he calls ‘the permanent government’ – and certainly not by the secret Civil Service, SIS ( MI6). For Verrier’s second thesis, the one I guess he really cares about, is that SIS got it right. There it is, out front, in the final […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] the Catholics in the North in 1970 when there appeared to be a serious threat of pogroms against them. The gunrunning scheme was exposed – possibly by MI6 – and when the politicians involved got cold feet, the Irish state tried make Kelly the sacrificial lamb. He resisted and triumphed in court. This is […]