Kincoragate: parapolitics

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 […]

Into the Whitehall maw

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 […]

Clippings Digest to May 31st. 1984

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 […]

The limits of accountability

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 […]

Operation Brogue

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 […]

Iraq

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. […]

Kincoragate: More Bodies

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

[…] Maurice Oldfield. * * * Gradually the pieces are coming together, though it will turn out to be a very large jigsaw. Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6) set up a Northern Irish section in the Conway Hotel at Dunmurray. Headed by Frank Howard Smith with Philip Woodhead as his desk man in London, […]

The Thimble Riggers: The Dublin Arms Trials of 1970

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 […]

Was the Director of Central Intelligence a Soviet agent?

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] the head of his secret foreign intelligence service was in the employ of the enemy. It is well-known that this nightmare came near enough to reality for MI6, Britain’s CIA, at the beginning of the Cold War. H. A. R. ‘Kim’ Philby, that perfect spy, was quite possibly within a few months of becoming […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] birth deformities caused by depleted uranium leaking into the atmosphere. It is tragic evidence that Saddam Hussein is stockpiling the material to make his own nuclear weapons. MI6 intelligence agents estimate 316 tons of radioactive dust seeped from a factory in Al Hillah, 100 miles south of Baghdad, 12 months ago.’ When depleted uranium […]

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