Using the UK FOIA, part III

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to use two caveats from the FOIA. The first is Section 27 which, in this case, covers the names of foreign intelligence officers. As the judgement rightly notes, a reliance on Section 27 requires that there be: ‘. . . a real and significant risk that disclosure would […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] London. Later, Wynne tries to give the £50 to his controllers but they tell him to keep it for himself. It can be safely assumed that British intelligence had the environs of the Soviet Embassy under photographic surveillance and MI6 could have used that as evidence to show Wynne taking money from the Russians. […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] or brain image indications to explain those widely varied symptoms. The JAMA findings 6 or Simon Matthews spotted this. 7 4 follow the 2023 release of an intelligence community assessment that found that the injuries were not the result of foreign attacks. More likely, the assessment suggested, they were tied to previous injuries, stress, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for denying Wuhan lab leak theory was censored by security officials’.1 Owen reported: Security officials censored a submission to the Covid Inquiry which highlighted the failure of intelligence agents to gather evidence which points to the virus having originated in a laboratory in Wuhan . The heavily criticised £200 million inquiry by Baroness Hallett […]

MI5 speaks to the nation!

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the bombings occurred, a surveillance photograph of 7/7 bombers Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer had been available. However, as the Guardian reported, they were ‘cropped by intelligence officials in such a “speedy” manner as to render them unrecognisable’.4In his position as head of counter terrorism, Sir Andrew would have been the person one […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] denounce the aforementioned article (that had been published two and a half months previously) as ‘wholly dishonest.3 Further, it was declared that ‘You defend terrorists in the intelligence services and fail to mention that a doc appeared on the internet after the attack was denied.’4 Included in that message, Shayler provided a link to […]

Garrick part 2

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[…] almost 40,000 Twitter followers. He has a strong west of Scotland accent, and purportedly lives in Spain. He also claims to have a background in British military intelligence, specifically as a producer of studies of mass psychology, which he has described as: ‘Nothing fancy. I wasn’t a double agent or . . . whatever. […]

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[…] has come in for criticism from some of the other researchers.14 Trump and Russia Former British diplomat, Arthur Snell, returned to the question of Trump and Russian intelligence in his ‘Let’s talk about Krasnov: It’s time to take a serious look at the evidence of Trump’s relationship with Russia’.15 Snell carefully works his way […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] following collusion between the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) – was released then.9 The Loyalist killers believed Maginn to be an IRA intelligence officer because the British state had, effectively, told them so. In an attempt to counter the family’s denial that Maginn had any IRA connection, ‘the UDA […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] fell completely out of fashion in the UK after 1945 but would later 5 Jean Millstein (anglicised as John Mills – not the actor) served as an intelligence officer for the Polish government in WW2, and possibly for the Polish government in exile after 1945. He described Les Ambassadeurs, which he started as early […]

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