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... qualifications and safe hands to undertake the inquiry. By 1983 he was a 'high-flyer', attending a year-long course at the Royal College of Defence Studies which dealt, in part, with internal subversion, with Northern Ireland serving as a case study. As Peter Taylor points out in his book on the Stalker affair, it was unlikely that MI5, whose C3 section was responsible for vetting the police, would have allowed him to get this far if there had been a skeleton in his cupboard. (2) The RUC Chief Constable, Sir John Hermon, was against Stalker's inquiry from the beginning and 'privately regarded it as unnecessary'. When the two met for the first ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 95 - 01 Jun 1992 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue23/lob23-07.htm
... (eurocommunists versus tankies); and not only were the CPGB's industrial depart-ment people not running the strike in secret through the NUM, as Mrs Thatcher apparently believed, the CPGB didn't even really support it. Formally they did how could they not? but they could see as well as others that it was going to be a disaster. MI5 must have known about the CPGB's lack of enthusiasm since they had the CPGB penetrated from top to bottom. So there's another story to be told: what kind of reports did MI5 give to the PM about the CPGB's role in the strike? Retired MI5 director-general Stella Rim-ington was in charge of the MI5 oper-ations against the miners, and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 92 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-42c.htm
... reports from the Irish Republic. These, in turn, are based on information from former Irish Republic Counter Intelligence personnel. But these, albeit at third hand, seem to be the main points. And if it isn't very clear it's because the Sunday News report is pretty fuzzy in places. The bugging led to the discovery that Britain's MI5 had recruited a group (numbers unspecified) of Irish Special Branch personnel, apparently to get information on IRA activities in Dublin. One of the MI5 recruiters was a 'Michael' who 'posed as a civil servant dealing with security matters at Stormont Castle'. above led (somehow) to the discovery of 'Operation Brogue', an MI6 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 90 - 01 Apr 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue04/lob04-09.htm
... '. (The Moscow subsidy ended in 1979.)(155) Secret Party members? There were also secret Party members, though how many there were and what they did is unclear. The existence of 'secret members', a staple on the right since the war, appeared most strikingly in Spycatcher in which Peter Wright recounts how MI5 had found the CPGB membership files stashed in a rich member's flat and photographed the whole lot- 55,000 files- in one weekend, 'with a Polaroid camera'.(156) Wright claimed that these files also 'contained the files of covert members of the CPGB.... people who had gone underground largely as a ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 90 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/lobcc-09.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 11) April 1986 Last| Contents| Next Issue 11 Wilson, MI5 and the Rise of Thatcher Covert Operations in British Politics 1974-1978 Preparing the ground Among the documents leaked from the ISC in 1975 was a 1972 memo from John Whitehorn, Deputy Director of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), urging member companies of the CBI to increase their funding to 5 organisations working against 'subversion' in British industry.(10) Four of the five were the old hands of British anti-union, anti-left activities: the Economic League and Common Cause which ran their own intelligence operations and vetted employees for companies; Aims of Industry (aka Aims, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 90 - 01 Apr 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue11/lob11-03.htm
... ) CMG (45) B 28.11.1899, D MARCH 1981 (MURDERED) MI6 (W) 1919 NORTH RUSSIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. 2ND LT 1920 MI6 1927 PASSPORT CONTROL OFFICE HELSINKI 1941 ATTACHE STOCKHOLM 1945 CONTROLLER NORTHERN AREA 1955 1ST SEC (VISA) COPENHAGEN 1956 JEDDAH 1958 FO 1961 RETIRED CARR, JOHN DICKSON WELL KNOWN THRILLER WRITER CP WORKER- MI5 AGENT 1930-40's CARREL, IAN MI5 (W) SECURITY LIAISON OFFICER HONG KONG HEAD OF REGISTRY MID 60's. K7 COUNTERING SOVIET PENETRATION. RETIRED LATE 70's CARTER, PETER ANTHONY CMG (1970) B 16.1.14 D 21.2.83 SIDNEY SUSSEX COLL CAMBRIDGE MI6 (F) 1936 METROPOLITAN POLICE 1939-44 5OTH ROYAL TANK REG 1946 FO ON LOAN FROM MET POLICE ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 86 - 01 Jan 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue10/lob10-04.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 11) April 1986 Last| Contents| Next Issue 11 Wilson, MI5 and the Rise of Thatcher Covert Operations in British Politics 1974-1978 Appendix 8: Biographies ASTOR, Hugh Waldorf: 1939 Intelligence Corps, Europe and S.E. Asia: 1947 assistant Middle East correspondent for The Times: 1948 Director Hambros Bank: 1956 board of Times newspapers: 1959 Deputy Chair Times Newspapers: NAFF Council member. BALL George Joseph: 1921 MI5 (Civil Assistant to Military Intelligence): 1924 head of Government Central Intelligence Department (renamed Publicity Department): 1930-39 Director Conservative Research Department: 1940-42 Deputy Chair of Security Executive overseeing the intelligence services, particularly MI5 BELOFF ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 83 - 01 Apr 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue11/lob11-20.htm
... terrorism. At its simplest, if I thought that Jonty Brown was a Shinner, (5) I wouldn't be writing this review. The core of Jonty Brown's allegations are not entirely new, as he alludes to the establishment of an 'inner force' in the RUC around about 1973, under the auspices of one Jack Morton, an MI5 officer who had worked with the colonial authorities in Malaya. This 'inner force' was discussed in a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary in 1991. This in turn, led to the unprecedented use of the Prevention of Terrorism Act against the makers of the programme. (6) Like Dispatches, Jonty Brown links the 'inner force' to the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 83 - 01 Jun 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue51/lob51-28.htm
... yet- in the 1973 EEC Referendum campaign, part of which is described here.... But for me the potentially most important section is the short chapter on IRD's domestic political operations. In his A War of Words (reviewed in Lobster 36) the late Christopher Mayhew revealed the existence of a meeting in 1956 between IRD, MI5 and the Cabinet Secretary which, in Mayhew's words 'led, among other things, to the ousting of Foulkes and Haskell from the leadership of the electrical trade union' (emphasis added). Among other things....... I said in my review that this fragment of Mayhew's 'may point the way to a completely ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 81 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-13.htm
... it up for the paper-- the traditional role of the British 'defence correspondents', famously the captives of their Whitehall sources. In fact this is more interesting than I expected. In this instance Adams has persuaded some of the big cheeses from the CIA and the Russian intelligence service to talk to him, as well as SIS and MI5, and the result is a kind of survey of the new world disorder. I'm not very interested in, or knowledgeable about, the current state of the CIA or the Russian service, and skipped through most of that. It might be true; it might all be complete baloney-- and I wouldn't know the difference. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 81 - 01 Jun 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue27/lob27-18.htm
