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. […]

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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[…] 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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies by Lt. General Michael T Flynn and Michael Ledeen

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of Fight, Flynn describes himself as someone who has ‘been fighting for more than thirty-three years, much of the time at the top levels of US military intelligence’. He describes his experiences during the US invasion of Grenada, predictably exaggerating its importance as ‘a turning point in the Cold War’. At the same time, […]

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 […]

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