Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
[…] at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhestan. It also led to the location of crashed Soviet TU-95 ‘Backfire’ bomber in Africa. (The accuracy of this information was later verified by spy satellites.) In 1978 the DIA took over as its office of primary responsibility.(29) Pat Price gave an equally incredibly detailed account in the course of his […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)
[…] printed a full account of the story; In it Cathy Massiter, a former MI5 officer, blew the whistle on MI5 activities and named Harry Newton as a spy within the labour movement. (Tribune of March 1 printed a transcript of some of the programme.) Massiter said she was put in charge of the surveillance […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
NB This essay has been compressed a good deal. The longer version is at < http://www.pertier.com/demos.html > Ostensibly a left-leaning ‘think tank’, Demos’ initial Advisory Board gathered mostly those who wished to extend ‘Thatcherism’ into the ‘New Labour’ project. The Advisory Board Martin JacquesHis time in the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) has been … Read more
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)
[…] Henri Paul was ‘…on the MI6 files for three years.’ (Tim Reid, ‘Al Fayed accuses Duke of plotting to murder Diana’, The Times 23 November 1999.) ‘Ex- spy claims Diana’s driver an informer’, Glasgow Herald 19 May 1999, p.3. Tomlinson wrote to Mohammed Al-Fayed about his theories in July 1998. ‘I subsequently learned that […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)
[…] sleight of hand. MI5 may have secret sources – but so do the police and Special Branch. Nor do MI5 have any ‘secret techniques’: other agencies bug, spy, bribe, recruit and subvert. MI5’s special little number was the ability of its personnel to remain unidentified: when they do have to appear in courts of […]