Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] ‘led by Tony Blair’s director of communications Alastair Campbell, head of homeland security David Omand, Downing Street foreign policy adviser Sir David Manning, and representatives of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ’.(7) The process of compiling the first dossier: ‘……resulted in fairly serious rows between Campbell, Omand and Stephen Lander, then head of M15. The essence […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] intelligence services in the context of civil liberties and their relationship with the public. For most of their existence the British Intelligence Services, namely MI5, GCHQ and MI6 were not governed by any statutory law. They were established by the use of the Royal Prerogative backed up, in the case of MI5, with an […]
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 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] things in this. In particular there is the curious business of the Met team getting access to MI6’s data bases to research the various claims by former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson that MI6 were involved. The nominated Operation Paget officers interviewed SIS personnel or examined databases and documentation for a total of 18 working […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] which focused on the debates about Indo-China within the Washington establishment in the period from Eisenhower to LBJ. Thirdly, it has been suggested that he was a MI6 asset. True, the source of this was Izvestia in December 1968. But it was later reported that Henry Kissinger had ordered the tapping of the telephone […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)
In 1978 I read a report of a speech on subversion by a Mr G. K. Young (‘GKY’) a former ‘deputy director’ of MI6. It said that he was a banker. I had been a student at LSE 1972-1975, my tutor was an expert on the Soviet Bloc and I had studied Soviet politics. […]