Curried Knight: Maxwell Knight and the MI5 in-house history

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] does not mention that Knight was a leading member of the British Fascists and seems to have colluded with them against the left while he was an intelligence officer. Professor Andrew notes that an MI5 agent, James McGuirk Hughes (whose name Andrew misspells), became the British Union of Fascists’ head of intelligence, presenting this […]

Export or Die: Britain’s Defence Trade with Iran and Iraq

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

[…] out that the Foreign Secretary and the Prime Minister would have been informed, on the basis of the former’s responsibility for SIS and the latter’s interest in intelligence affairs, not to mention her ‘specific interest in Iraq’s activities’.(1) All the same, a careful reading of the Scott Report does support Miller’s general if not […]

Agreement! The State, Conflict and Change in Northern Ireland

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] she shows why there has been recent stalemate over the RUC. This armed police force was pivotal in much of the action and most of the floating intelligence in the past. Could the same people provide an equitable police force for all the people of Northern Ireland? To mix metaphors somewhat, the description she […]

The Anti-CND Groups. Ingrams

Lobster Issue 4 (1984)

[…] The M10/11, hand-held, almost recoilless weapon was designed by Gordon Ingram and Mitch Werbell II, a mysterious White Russian, OSS-China veteran small arms manufacturer and occasional US intelligence operative. Werbell has been termed a ‘creative genius’ by weapons historians for his designs of noise suppressors for automatic weapons and for his other ‘silent kill’ […]

The ‘Terrorist Threat’ in Britain

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] the British Right’s ideological package, but in the past few years they have become much more explicit. At one level it looks fairly straightforward. The British military/ intelligence complex has been preparing for years for the time when the ‘Soviet threat’ ceases to guarantee their budgets. And that might be soon. Georgi(?) Arbatov, one […]

The two Indonesias and the two Americas

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] East Timor were routinely beaten while in the process of being detained…. Four residents of Lavateri village near Baucau, East Timor detained on April 4 by an intelligence team, were reportedly beaten with rifle butts, with one individual suffering a broken rib and another having a cross carved into the palm of her hand. […]

Major Farran’s Hat

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] either conciliate or effectively repress the Zionists, the British were doomed. The lack of a viable political strategy showed itself on the ground in the lack of intelligence. Intelligence is the key to operational success in counterinsurgency and the British signally failed to penetrate the Zionist resistance. The scale of the failure is shown […]

Secret Contenders

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] a travel agents’ convention which appears more like an international gathering of secret agents all getting pissed together. CIA stations carry our propaganda and study the Russian Intelligence Service (RIS) and local left activity. But Beck learns that by the 1960s RIS had long since ceased using foreign Communist Parties for espionage. In Havana […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[…] in parapolitics in the United States. And not before time. The interest in conspiracies is simply reality breaking through. The Reagan-Thatcher years saw unprecedented expansions of unregulated intelligence and military agencies, and breathtaking multi-billion rip-offs (most obviously, in the U.S., the S and L scam; in the UK, privatisation). No one should be remotely […]

9-11

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] her comments at Kwiatkowski is dropping broad hints that, in her view, there is something fishy here. In ‘Pakistan and 9/11’, at B. Raman, a former Indian intelligence officer, discusses advance knowledge of 9-11 among Pakistan’s intelligence community and concludes: ‘It is, therefore, impossible that the Pakistani authorities would not have known of Al […]

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