Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] the Foreign Office and MI6. (Christie; A. Read and D. Fisher, Colonel Z, 1984) De Courcy, Kenneth Hugh B. 1909. Secretary to the Imperial Policy Group; personal agent to Sir Stewart Menzies, Chief of Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from November 1939; reported also to Butler (q.v.) and to Chamberlain during the late 1930s on […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] a decade later, he picked up a copy of Philip Agee’s CIA Diary and found an old friend of his and fellow activist named as a CIA agent. And: ‘Instantaneous sucked-in breath, a heart-rending cry of horror, I am literally propelled out of my seat and backwards two full meters……I stand there, staring at […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
Electronic Privacy and the Encryption Debate Attempts by intelligence and law enforcement to control new technologies Intelligence/law enforcement concerns Intelligence and law enforcement agencies world-wide have in recent years become concerned that more widespread use of advanced technologies, such as encryption, digital technologies and the Internet, will compromise their ability to fight crime and terrorism. … Read more
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] the document were arguing that the Foreign Office should back the Canaris-German resistance-Vatican proposal. This report had to cross the desk of Kim Philby a Soviet agent before it could be officially circulated to Ministers. Philby duly rejected the document, thus blocking any formal discussion of a peace deal that would be […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] Fletcher, ‘What’s all this fuss about the police woman who was shot outside the Libyan embassy? We should not shed any tears over the death of an agent of the Thatcher regime.’ (50) His views weren’t universally shared, and by October 1985 an Organisers’ Bulletin was urging members to ‘make an effort to be […]
Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££
The Dirty War Martin Dillon, Hutchinson, London, 1990. The SAS in Ireland Raymond Murray, Mercier Press, Cork and Dublin, 1991 Martin Dillon is a freelance journalist in Northern Ireland with a long career behind him: editor and radio presenter for the BBC in Northern Ireland, co-author of the Penguin Special, Political Murder In Northern Ireland … Read more
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] ‘act of conscience’ also, albeit accidentally, contributed to the demise of President Richard Nixon, whose felonious minions had allowed CIA officer E. Howard Hunt and erstwhile FBI agent G. Gordon Liddy to burglarize confidential files from Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office, in a slap-happy attempt to discredit the anti-War movement by showing that Ellsberg was mentally […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] links the UVF specifically to the murder of 23 year-old Sharon McKenna, in 1993 and implicates Mark Haddock, a UVF Commander who was also a Special Branch agent, in this killing. Haddock is currently on remand for charges arising from paramilitary activity and his unit is believed to have killed around a dozen people […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
In its Supplement ‘Corporate Security’, the Financial Times (11 April 2002) provided private security companies with a five page ‘advertorial’. If they are thought of as a service industry, the puff may have done the companies some favours. If they are thought of as consultancies, however, it merely reinforced the emerging superiority of specialist boutiques, … Read more
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] that of recipient and disseminator of information and disinformation and – perhaps – a source for ‘Falcon’ on the civilian UFO groups.(16) ‘Falcon’ was the AFOSI Special Agent Doty who had interviewed Bennewitz; and Doty, an Air Force investigator, a figure – albeit not a very significant one – from the Federal government, proceeded […]