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 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] it had become clear that were elections to be held the government in Hanoi would win and the Saigon regime would collapse. Despite this certainty and the intelligence showing that there was absolutely no popular support for the elite in Saigon, the decision was made to have Ngô Dình Diem deposed in favour of […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)
[PDF file]: […] ‘contacts in Czech intelligence’.(56) MI5’s pretext for this was the fact that Benn, while Minister of Technology, had been lunching with Czech diplomats, some of whom were intelligence officers under cover, and had not reported the contacts to his departmental MI5 officer.(57) But while Benn was the chief focus of the paranoid right’s conspiracy […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] the smear was something concocted years before in Northern Ireland for which Wilkinson was just the messenger boy. (Being the conduit for the nonsense from military and intelligence agencies was one of his roles.) When this was demonstrated to Channel Four’s management, Wilkinson lost his gig as ITN’s ‘consultant’ on terrorism. None of this […]