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 […]

A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11

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[PDF file]: […] as much as half of the funding -the KLA’s leap to power) Kosovo Liberation Army; Yasenev ‘04 Times (London), 3/24/99 Anton Surikov (the GRU agent Russian military intelligence whose study Crime in Russia on the extraordinary extent to which the Colombian cartel has targeted Russia was published by King’s College London followed by an […]

Spookaroonie!

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: Inside British Intelligence 100 years of MI5 and MI6 Gordon Thomas London: JR books, 2009, £20 Spooks The Unofficial History of MI5 Thomas Hennessy and Claire Thomas Stroud (Glos.): Amberley, 2009, £30 Robin Ramsay I haven’t properly read either of these books and cannot really review them. However, there are some things I can […]

Presstitutes: Embedded in the Pay of the CIA. A Confession from The Profession by Udo Ulfkotte

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] is almost nothing about the CIA in the book. So it’s being marketed under false pretences. The book’s original German title translates as Bought Journalists: How Politicians, Intelligence Agencies and High Finance Control Germany’s Mass Media. The author – who died of a heart attack in 2017 – has a Wikipedia entry in English.2 […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 1 – the early years

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] operation into motion. Each time, however, it seemed as if the usual unofficial sanction was not entirely forthcoming. From impounded arms shipments to stern warnings from the Intelligence community, the plot seemed doomed. Indeed, 2 See Christopher Kinsey, Corporate Soldiers and International Security: The Rise of Private Military Companies, (London: Routledge, 2006) pp. 46-49. […]

Inside the Trump Administration

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] far as Meadows was concerned, the US military leadership was ‘clearly swinging toward the radical left’ and were clearly ‘woke’ in their sympathies. (p. 61) And the intelligence agencies were not much better. There are a number of things to be said about this. First of all, how astonishing it is to have a […]

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 […]

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

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[…] 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 […]

The Establishment And how they get away with it by Owen Jones

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] there are deficiencies. For someone who apparently spent two years on postgraduate study of US history, Jones is weak on tracing links with UK in matters of intelligence and Atlanticism more broadly. He mentions, for example, Anthony Crosland, but not his CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom spell. He mentions the Heritage Foundation, but not […]

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