A key for a Clockwork Orange

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] Burgess (published by Faber and Faber).2 Lewis engages in much speculation but the most substantial material concerns what Lewis was told when he made contact with an intelligence officer: ‘ “You realise,”said the spook, as we sat on a bench in Berkeley Square, opposite Maggs Bros. Ltd, by appointment to Her Majesty the Queen, […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Young, who has been publishing information about states and especially their 10 11 12 See for example . Boss isn’t West Wing but it is pretty good. intelligence services for about 15 years.1 3 He recently published a list of putative MI6 officers1 4 and I was struck by how little it interested me. […]

David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] of the MI6 plot in the summer of 1995 – approximately eight to nine months before the assassination attempt took place. There where subsequently a number of intelligence coordination meetings between MI5 and MI6 where Shayler says mentions were made of progress – e.g. funding being in place. Annie Machon’s book on their experiences […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] a grenade at me. I killed him with a burst from the Uzi. It ripped his body apart.4 She was recruited by A’man, Israeli Defence Force military intelligence, for her first foray as a spy in 1981. I was to play a non-Jewish shiksa , claiming to be a PLO sympathiser, on an undercover […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue

[PDF file]: […] a grenade at me. I killed him with a burst from the Uzi. It ripped his body apart.4 She was recruited by A’man, Israeli Defence Force military intelligence, for her first foray as a spy in 1981. I was to play a non-Jewish shiksa , claiming to be a PLO sympathiser, on an undercover […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] of Pink Floyd fame) wondering if the Hamas attack on Israel was a false flag attack.8 I confess I did initially wonder if the much vaunted Israeli intelligence services had let it happen. Surely the Palestinian populations were completely penetrated by human and electronic means? Apparently not. Back to the notion of a false […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] of Pink Floyd fame) wondering if the Hamas attack on Israel was a false flag attack.8 I confess I did initially wonder if the much vaunted Israeli intelligence services had let it happen. Surely the Palestinian populations were completely penetrated by human and electronic means? Apparently not. Back to the notion of a false […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] the attacks, while ignoring an oil rich ally which had everything to do with them. The justification for war is based on some witches’ brew of faulty intelligence, concocted intelligence and ignored good intelligence. Decent people are forced to lie on an international stage. All sensible advice is ignored and rabid neo-con draft dodgers […]

Colin Wallace and the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] from chapter 3 of that report.6 para 391 We are satisfied that it was not until 1980 that the RUC Special Branch, MI5, the SIS and Army Intelligence became aware that McGrath had been sexually abusing residents at Kincora, and they learnt of that when it became the 4 . One-time Tara member Roy […]

Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] Warrenpoint. Subsequently, the former head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield, had been brought out of retirement and appointed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ‘to co-ordinate security and intelligence’ in Northern Ireland. As a part of this, and in consultation with the serving Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, John Hermon, it was decided […]

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