Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] MI6 officer Mark Allen. This culminated publicly in the rapprochement symbolised by Gadaffi and Prime Minister Blair embracing in 2004; and privately in the British security and intelligence services helping to send back anti-Gadaffi activists (one from the 1996 group paid by MI6) to their Libyan equivalents for torture.3 As part of the fallout […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: […] the UK.1 Dee served in the RAF from 1953 to 1958, spending much of this time in the Middle East, culminating in his being attached to RAF Intelligence in Baghdad in 1957-1958. This was a critical period that saw the UK humiliated by the USA during the Suez crisis in late 1956. At its […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[PDF file]: Gareth Llewellyn, CSIS and the Canadian stasi W hat follows is a section of a much longer document written by a senior Canadian federal intelligence official named Gareth LLewellyn about the actions against him of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS). This story is notable for his account of being ‘gang-stalked’ by CSIS. […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
[PDF file]: Canada’s spy agency gone rogue: Prime Minister Harper couldn’t care less Roderick Russell Dr. Arthur Porter, the former chair of Canada’s spy watchdog, the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), is in prison in Panama awaiting extradition to Canada where he faces multiple charges that include allegations of bribe taking, money laundering and conspiracy. Two […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
[PDF file]: […] arrival of post invasion Iraqis – allowed the community, and its children in particular, to evolve quietly as more Iraqis rolled in. It was only in the intelligence sphere – which the majority of 1970s Iraqis were seeking to avoid – that it had high visibility. Some Iraqis were sought out by the SIS; […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] Straw. Nor from Jonathan Powell, Downing Street chief of staff. Nor Alastair Campbell, Director of Communications. More importantly still, I have not discovered from either the Joint Intelligence Committee or the Secret Intelligence Service that the prime minister was misrepresenting their intelligence. This failure to challenge Mr Blair means that the Secret Intelligence Service […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] pleasures of taking certain drugs and hinted, half-jokingly, that he was or had been connected to the CIA (in World War Two he had served in military intelligence). Mason also recalled that Solomon ‘became nervy’ when someone present casually mentioned that Mason was friendly with the local police: he had been reporting suspicious night-time […]