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... am told that the original hardback version is slightly different though I have not been told in which ways. Notwithstanding all that, here are the bits and pieces I found of most interest on reading the book version. In one section pp.48-49 (which also appeared in the Sunday Times on 4 February) Tomlinson describes how his intake of new SIS recruits were briefed by the then SIS chief McColl. One of the new recruits put the obvious question:' "Sir, why do we have an intelligence service at all? There are countries more important on the world stage, with much more powerful economies, who have only small or nonexistent external intelligence gathering operations. Japan or ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 116 - 01 Jun 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue41/lob41-37.htm
... intermediary between Britain and Germany in the abortive peace feeler put out by Foreign Secretary Halifax and his number two, Butler, in June 1940. De Courcy, who had persuaded Butler of the need to explore some kind of armistice with Germany, knew Prytz, probably as a result of his activities on behalf of Stewart Menzies, Chief of SIS. As is well known the talks were stopped by Churchill who threatened to lock up both Halifax and Butler. De Courcy himself had to lie low and found himself under suspicion again when the Hess affair blew up in May of the following year. These two events undermined de Courcy's previous good standing in the British establishment and he was ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 106 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-19.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 33) Summer 1997 Last| Contents| Next Issue 33 New Cloak, Old Dagger: How Britain's Spies Came In From The Cold Michael Smith Gollancz, London,1996, £20 This is a curious and rather pointless book. In short chapters Smith attempts potted histories of MI5, SIS, signals and military intelligence. These are quite well done, but covering half a century in 20 pages, say, the chapters are barely more than sketches. (The Information Research Department gets a page!) Every once in a while we get a detailed chunk: but who needs another version of the Cambridge spies (Philby et al) ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 100 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-14.htm
... . Before reading Souza in Lobster it had never occurred to me to wonder how this works: how do children learn not to blow daddy's cover? (With difficulty.) What levels of deceit are required? (Many.) How many friends are sacrificed? (Many.) There are quite detailed portraits of three of her father's SIS case officers. Two are identified, one remains under a pseudonym; two were the kind of urbane, civilised people we are led to believe work for Her Majesty's Secret Service; one, the late Alexis Forte, was an obnoxious Russian racist. There is much incidental detail on SIS methods in London in the 1970s and 80s, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 99 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-39.htm
... MI6 by Steve Dorril, in the first batch of what eventually became the Who's Who of the British Secret State. Though I cannot remember why Dorril thought this and though there is nothing specific in Ashdown's known career which says 'intelligence', the career move from Special Boat Squadron to Foreign Office is pretty obvious.(1) The alleged SIS affiliation seems to have stuck, however. The doyen of British political profile writers, Andrew Roth, wrote in the Guardian (19 March 2001), sixteen years after Dorril, that Ashdown 'is popularly supposed to have been serving with MI6 in Geneva under the cover of being the first secretary to the UK mission to the UN. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 91 - 01 Jun 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue47/lob47-26.htm
16. Spook PR [Lobster #44 (Winter 2002)]
... secondly, they counter it. The means by which they do so include tactics such as photo-opportunities, branding, viral marketing and local spokespersons. These tactics have been used to devastating effect by al-Qaida. Its communications campaign has been textbook- identical to that mounted by any multinational- and has taken years to put in place. Had the SIS known anything about PR (which, given its corporate clients, it ought to have done) it would have spotted al-Qaida's programme long ago, and known how to interpret it. In consequence, it would have anticipated where al-Qaida's agenda was headed; recognised the build-up to what in commercial terms would be called an attempted hostile takeover; ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 90 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-11.htm
... to the IRA. MI5, which began operating in Northern Ireland with the advent of the IRA bombing campaign on mainland Britain, saw MI6 not as an ally but as an opponent. Colin Wallace: "The 1973-4 period was particularly critical because it was, in my opinion, a watershed in the battle for supremacy between MI5 and the SIS (ie MI6). In the UK the problems associated with the increases in international terrorism, the miners' strike, the 3-day week, alleged increases in power and influence by Left Wing activists etc all had a profound effect on the roles of these two services. In Northern Ireland the chief intelligence post was given to an MI5 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 80 - 01 Apr 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue11/lob11-16.htm
... journalist On the back of the Lawson 'story', Phillip Knightley (Sunday Times 20 December 1998) gave the most complete account I have seen of the network of agents created after WW2 by Ian Fleming under cover of the Mercury newsagency, and named the late Henry Brandon of The Sunday Times, among others, the as 'an asset of SIS'. (I seem to remember that while a correspondent in Washington in the 1970s he had his phone tapped by the Nixon White House.) Tomlinson 1 The Richard Tomlinson affair has provided a number of insights. SIS officer Tomlinson was sacked- or, on some accounts, not retained after a 4 year probationary period. He ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 80 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-12.htm
... heard of Dave Spart? RR: You keep trying to patronise me and it always misses. The reference to Dave Spart simply tells me you have never read Lobster. Secret servants Red faces at NATO where the official NATO Website carried for two months an English translation of an article, which had originally appeared in Croatia, which identified four SIS officers.( 1) This was the comic climax of a series of stories about SIS's activities in the states of the former Yugoslavia.( 2) The exposure of SIS's officers and operations there began in February, with the identification in the Serbian media of Anthony Monckton, a senior SIS officer, who, with two others, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 77 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-24.htm
... episodes, including Thalidomide, the Hitler diaries (in which he was blameless, I hasten to add), and, most famous of all, the investigation of Philby. His work for the Insight team on Philby was the beginning of a career in which he has repeatedly brushed up against the secret warriors of Langley, Virginia, and SIS. The revelation here in respect of the Philby affair is his discovery, years later, that that Dennis Hamilton, the editor-in-chief of Times newspapers at the time of the Philby investigation, was routinely passing all the journalists' work on Philby to SIS; and all the retired SIS officers interviewed by the Insight journalists were reporting back. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 75 - 01 Dec 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue34/lob34-08.htm
