Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

Lobster Issue

[…] lines later there is the following quotation. ‘Brutally summarised……Mrs Thatcher and Thatcherism grew out of a right-wing network in this country with extensive links to the military- intelligence establishment. Her rise to power was the climax of a long campaign by this network which included a protracted destabilisation campaign against the Labour and Liberal […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 2 – This is the modern world

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] to take any photographs.2 9 Additionally, Erinys was tangentially involved with exKGB/FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned with polonium in November 2006. Litvinenko was producing ‘business intelligence’ reports into high profile Russian figures for Titon International, which was a subsidiary of Erinys.3 0 27 See footnote 3. 28 See . 29 For the […]

Crazytown

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Council staff, and the way he pushed for the administration to recognise the Iranian threat. Woodward sings the man’s praises. Harvey is a ‘driven legend’ who ‘approached intelligence like a homicide detective – sifting through thousands of pages of interrogation reports, communications intercepts, battle reports, enemy documents, raw intelligence data and nontraditional sources such […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] concerned. Page 104 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 of his trips to the Soviet bloc during the Cold War Wilson did talk to someone who was a Soviet intelligence officer with some kind of cover – as a trade official, say. Perhaps Wilson had a few vodkas and talked about British politics. Our Soviet intelligence […]

Dallas again

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] whom she was doing a heroin run);1 right-wing activist, Joseph Milteer, who was bugged talking about it by the Miami police;2 John Martino, a mid-level gangster;3 and intelligence officer Richard Case Nagell.4 So, we have organised crime, the far right and a spook – the usual suspects; but rather low level.5 Would a CIA […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] dots . . . I received an email from Kit Klarenberg, who is mentioned below in the column. Klarenberg is a prolific writer on British and US intelligence operations and politics. He took exception to my describing the British government’s Institute for Statecraft (and the Integrity Initiative which it created) as an attempt ‘to […]

Secret Justice: Public Interest Immunity Certificates (PIICs) and their use in the Asil Nadir trials

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] PIIs were issued to prevent an officer of Special Branch, DS Wilkinson, from verifying that Paul Grecian had been acting with official backing in order to gather intelligence on Iraq. The Public Interest Immunity certificates were signed by Kenneth Baker and Peter Lilley, relying on an assessment by the prosecuting council that the documents […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] dots . . . I received an email from Kit Klarenberg, who is mentioned below in the column. Klarenberg is a prolific writer on British and US intelligence operations and politics. He took exception to my describing the British government’s Institute for Statecraft (and the Integrity Initiative which it created) as an attempt ‘to […]

Unredacted: Russia, Trump and the Fight for Democracy by Christopher Steele

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] one of the factors that pushed ‘me away from government service’ (p. 91). After more than twenty years in MI6, Steele retired and set up a private intelligence agency, Orbis. What Steele wants us to believe is that somehow Orbis was a force for good. In fact, the outfit seems to have started out […]

Who really killed Chris Hani? by Chris Nicholson

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] Research (SAIMR), but it is so incompetently done I abandoned it after reading/skimming a third of its 450 pages. It begins badly when the LaRouche magazine Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) is quoted at length on pages 6 and 7. EIR claims that SAIMR was a front for MI6 but offers no evidence for that; […]

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