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... UK, chiefly about the MOD's procurement system. Not a subject I knew much about, I approached the book expecting little. Discovering it had begun as a PhD reduced my expectations even further. In fact it is a fascinating read. If, like me, you had vaguely assumed that the defence sector was a cosy racket involving the MOD and the manufacturing companies ripping-off the tax-payer, you will discover that you were right; and with this book you will have the evidence to back-up your prejudices. Here, with some subheads, are the bits I text-marked on my way through it. St. Margaret of Grantham 'In many ways policy on defence procurement, even in the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 79 - 01 Dec 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue34/lob34-11.htm
... as as Nick Pope, J. Palmer, Owen Hartop, Kerry Philpott, and Ralph Noyes, respond to public inquiries. The knowledge of these individuals is limited and their responses consequently sometimes inaccurate. Contrary to claims made by Air Staff 2 (a) that they are privy to all UFO reports, there is a component within the MOD which deals with more serious aspects of this subject. On October 23 1989, in the course of one of my investigations, I contacted this particular MOD section. After the preliminary conversation I was asked if I was prepared to sell my investigation report to them; and later in the course of the conversation, when I suggested sharing ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 71 - 01 Dec 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue32/lob32-07.htm
... met Margaret Mar one evening in late summer 1997. She confirmed she had taken Sebastian's information to the Ministry of Defence in private. They later informed her that, following consultation with the US Department of Defense officials, no record of the mission had been found. Clearly this was no denial. Moreover, the official who responded to the MOD enquiry was Bernard Rostker, the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illness. Hardly the person one would expect to be privy to top secret information on a sensitive CIA operation. Besides, I was to later learn that Black Cat almost certainly was subject to a 'compartmented' mission name, so that at different levels of the command structure the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 52 - 01 Jun 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue35/lob35-03.htm
... is thoroughly misleading in that it conceals the fact that I had been working for Information Policy from 1971. Peter Broderick's re-organisation of the Army Information Services, which transferred me to Information Policy, was, as he told the Civil Service Appeal Board, simply making formal an arrangement that had existed on an informal basis for several years. The MOD and the security services had, therefore, three years experience of my work with that unit before I was formally transferred to it on promotion. It is significant that neither MOD nor the security services prevented that transfer. p. 160 'Clockwork Orange attempted to link the IRA with the KGB and other foreign intelligence agencies supplying weapons and explosives ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 51 - 01 May 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue21/lob21-02.htm
5. Spooks [Lobster #41 (Summer 2001)]
... who are currently working undercover as spies within the ranks of the IRA, carried out a series of terrorist bombings and shootings to preserve their cover as leading Provos. The British government is thwarting all efforts by the agents to come in from the cold and has abandoned the soldiers because of the offences they carried out while army agents. The MoD is refusing to pull them out of Northern Ireland and give them new identities to protect them from republican reprisals.' Sixteen Army officers inside the IRA? Is that FRU as in frug? On 3 February John Young's Cryptome website posted an anonymous article 'Enquiry: the killing years in Ireland'. (3) This is a very ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 46 - 01 Jun 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue41/lob41-22.htm
... the Ministry of Defence confirmed the presence of one of the cover names, 4 Field Survey Troop, Royal Engineers, but denied the presence of the other, Northern Ireland Training and Advisory Team. Other than confirming that 4 Field Survey Troop were in Northern Ireland when and where Holroyd said they were, no further information was forthcoming, the MOD replying, through junior minister Roger Freeman, that 'Detailed information on this unit, which is not now deployed in the Province, is not available.'( [11]) Fast forward to 2006 and researchers in the national archives have discovered a 1974 army briefing paper titled 'Army Plain Clothes Patrols in Northern Ireland'. The briefing ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 44 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-24.htm
... was an Army Intelligence agent, this is a pretty stupid line to defend. Nonetheless this line is at the heart of both of the Bruce and Urban books. Urban is an interesting figure. A sometime full-time soldier, now with the BBC, Urban affects not to be just the traditional defence correspondent, dependent on the droppings of the MOD press office. He notes in this book that while he was entitled to non-attributable briefings from the MOD, he chose not to have them while writing it. While non-attributable briefings are hardly a secret, the well-behaved media servant of the British state doesn't generally mention them. In the first and best section of the book, Urban takes ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 42 - 01 Dec 1992 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue24/lob24-11.htm
... likely explanation would be a problem with nuclear weapons still on board, in which case an appropriate course of action would be to sink the ship and return to sort out the problem after the war. I talked to the researcher later that night, pointing out this possible line of argument, and he said he would go back to the MoD the following morning, a Saturday, to check it out. This he did, as Newsnight was at the time broadcasting seven nights a week, but the MoD immediately returned to the original story of the ship sinking of its own accord. The researcher later told me that his first contact at the MoD on the previous night who ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 37 - 01 Dec 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue28/lob28-02.htm
... that it is the pivot of all military careers and a great deal of decision-making. Any military officer who has ambitions, has to keep close to the Pentagon, because he needs to serve in NATO. The US and the UK have dominated serious appointments in NATO for years, for this reason. It is the driving priority of the MOD to keep it that way. They do not think in terms of national interest, but of both MOD interest and the American interest.' And talking about the bombing during the war after the break-up Yugoslavia, Young comments: 'Cook....always had to be asked for target approval for each new bombing raid. Sometimes he tried ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 35 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-07.htm
... a tactic. Two examples illustrate this: (a) It was claimed I lied on a job application form before joining EMI in 1976. This was completely untrue and no evidence was produced, but the jury were given the impression that I had obtained the job illegitimately. (b) I had two private meetings at EMI and the MoD to discuss my security clearance. These meetings were recorded without my knowledge and the original tapes destroyed. However, transcripts of these meetings were analysed in court and used to denigrate my character. The meetings were held on 12 November 1979 and 10 June 1980, i.e. over 12 years before my arrest. All my lawyers' telephones ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 33 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-11.htm
