Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
[…] largely unaware that he had been marked down as a dangerous enemy of the centralised British political system. According to the former MI5 officer David Shayler, the intelligence services file on Owen Oyston was re-examined in 1992 by the head of MI5, when it looked as if Neil Kinnock’s revived Labour party might defeat […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] partner – to keep the people of Cyprus internally divided (Turks against Greeks) and thus incapable of challenging the presence of the British and American military and intelligence bases on the island. Having read nothing about Cyprus for over 20 years – and forgotten that – almost all of this was a revelation to […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] sector has become increasingly involved in the use of military force abroad (a) because of greater deniability – the same motive which produced ‘private’ spooks in the intelligence field, – and (b) because of the political sensitivity of American casualties abroad. If someone is going to come home in a body bag, better it […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)
[…] Arabic and claimed to be ‘Khouri Ali’, a Palestinian revolutionary. The following year he was released on bail: the judge’s summing up described him as a US intelligence asset working under cover in the Middle East. Stark jumped bail and disappeared. In 1982 he was arrested in the Netherlands, once again on drugs charges. […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)
[…] they duly did, of course. The books concentrates on Moyle’s role as the editor of Defence Helicopter World – a piece of transparent cover for someone whose intelligence role must have been obvious to all concerned. He went sniffing round the Chilean arms manufacturer Cardoen who was planning to produce a kit enabling the […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] the Open Democracy web site, and Michael Maclay, the ex-Foreign Office man who became Mandelson’s colleague at London Weekend Television before helping run the MI6-linked Hayklut private intelligence organisation. Parliamentary Secretary in Derry Irvine’s Lord Chancellor’s Department, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, also joined the BAP in 1987. She now serves on its UK advisory […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)
[…] of a kind of parallel CIA, which the authors call The Enterprise, in which a pantheon of well known names from the hard right of the American intelligence and military are said to be involved. But is it true? As presented here the answer can only be: it might be true. For, in the […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] $45, the Chinese-English chart, based on institutional and personnel changes since May 2000, outlined the government structure of China. The open information is the sort of thing intelligence officers used to collate. The Times 28 August 2006 The Guardian 26 January 2006 Following the first Gulf War, British civil engineering contractors were disappointed not […]