Sir John Sawer’s speech and some aspects of SIS PR

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] has the people and the relationships for SIS to recover. (‘We work with over 200 partner services around the world 1 Sir John defined his products. No intelligence chief does this because they change according to local markets and conditions. 120 Winter 2010 with hugely constructive results.’) PR distraction In the meantime, non-spook colleagues […]

SUCCESS: The CIA in Guatemala, 1954

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[PDF file]: […] 2010 such as Spruille Braden, were not satisfied; and alongside heightened reforms in Guatemala caused a ‘general uneasiness within the Truman administration,’ 9 leading to increased ‘thin’ intelligence gathering.1 0 The duck test N o matter how thin the evidence was, reports of the possibility of Communism in Guatemala continued. Richard Patterson Jr., Truman’s […]

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. […]

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[…] 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 […]

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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, […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] new * Neon and day-glow guns ‘R’ us. Former NSA contractor Reality Winner1 is currently incarcerated pre-trial for alleged leaking to the press of details on American intelligence agencies investigations into foreign interference during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Much of the media coverage has included humorous references to Ms Winner’s claim that she […]

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