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... during an industrial dispute'. Wilson was particularly pleased that the Communist Party headquarters was 'comprehensively bugged'. And he actively encouraged right- wing union leaders to collaborate with MI5. One of the leading figures in the GMWU, Sir Harry Crane, 'was deeply involved in this' and regularly passed information from MI5 onto the Labour Party's national agent and witch-hunter in chief, Sarah Barker. This relationship 'between right-wingers in the Labour Party and MI5 was held close, and nothing was written down'. Wilson was also an enthusiast for covert operations. He continued the Tories' secret wars in Yemen and Indonesia, told MI6 to assassinate Idi Amin (they refused ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 42 - 01 Oct 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster72/lob72-black-door.pdf
... Labour Party affairs. '4 1 It may even be more complex than this for there is evidence that the Labour Attaché posts have been used as cover by the CIA. Jonathan Kwitney of the Wall Street Journal tracked down one Paul Sakwa, who told him that he had been the case officer for Irving Brown, the most important CIA agent in the labour movement in Europe, handling Brown's budget of between $150,000 and $300,000 a year, between 1952 and 1954. From being Brown's case officer in Washington, Sakwa went on to a post under cover as the Assistant Labour Attaché at the 40 See Gaitskell Diary ed. Philip Williams, pp. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 41 - 05 Feb 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/clandestine-caucus.pdf
... War, Aldrich writes that 'the idea of destabilizing parts of Eastern Europe had clearly achieved a measure of interdepartmental support by November 1948 when the Russia Committee, under Gladwyn Jebb .. .. '. (p . 206) A little further on he adds: 'In November 1949 the Cominform began to issue urgent calls for vigilance against enemy agents, at a time when all internal political opposition had been liquidated and there was no sign of the spread of Titoism. Near-hysteria gripped Eastern Europe and alleged Western agents were uncovered by the hundreds. ' The missing causal link for Aldrich is the scattering of covert operations run by the British in the Baltic and the Ukraine, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 41 - 01 Nov 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue22/lob22-06.htm
... Northern Ireland being part of the UK and MI6, up till then, working only abroad. The UK was MI5's bureaucratic 'territory'. Maurice Oldfield, MI6 head at the time, is said to have opposed the move. (Verrier, 1983 p 302) Once in Northern Ireland, MI6 began doing what MI6 does. It recruited agents, tried to create a political alternative to the IRA - the Social Democratic and Labour Party (and, perhaps, the Alliance Party) (Verrier, ibid p 286) - and began trying to talk to the IRA. MI5, which began operating in Northern Ireland with the advent of the IRA bombing campaign on mainland Britain, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 41 - 01 Apr 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue11/lob11-16.htm
... ' in his book The Robots' Rebellion, by including Holocaust revisionist material in its successor, the first interest was shown from the Independent on Sunday. The IoS were interested in running something using this and other information about Icke - for example that he had been helped to write a chapter on the Holocaust by Marcus Allen, the UK agent for Nexus. (Icke calls Nexus 'incomparable' and promotes it in his books and lectures.) Interviewed by us in December 1994, Allen spoke admiringly of David Irving (a shelf of whose books he had in his office) and displayed a copy of the 'Protocols'. Almost as soon a journalist from the IoS began writing ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 41 - 01 Dec 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue30/lob30-09.htm
... Gay Community Brief account of 'pretty police' - Notting Hill-based entrapment squad. Observer 4th March Long account of harassment of gay shops, organisations and people. Guardian 30th April (letters) Gay clubs raided in Soho: "Staff in gay clubs nearby said police has (sic) been making daily raids." Times 17th May Agent provocateurs operating in 6 police authorities. Guardian 19th May (letters) Detailed account of police raid on London gay bookshop in Rights (NCCL) Summer 1984 (See publications in this issue) And in a leaflet accompanying that issue, which claims that: raid had a code-name; shop was under surveillance for 18 months; ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 41 - 01 Aug 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue05/lob05-10.htm
... the head of the United States' Mafia. In 1956, a distinguished emigre scholar from the Dominican Republic, Jesus de Galindez, was kidnapped on the streets of New York and flown to his home country, where he was almost certainly murdered by order of his political enemy, the dictator Trujillo. In this case, a former FBI agent, John Joseph Frank (who had worked for the CIA as well as a Trujillo lobbyist) pleaded nolo contendere for his role in chartering the kidnap plane; he was let off with a $500 fine. Ten years later Life reported that the plane had been chartered by Mafioso Bayonne Joe Zicarelli, another member and a 'fast' ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 41 - 01 Sep 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue12/lob12-02.htm
... non-compete covenant. ( [5 ] ) (I assume that Italy will not be able to recreate his Middle Eastern experience/expertise quickly and that rebuilding his team will take months, if not longer, not least because of poor morale. His death acts as a warning to all 'allied' public servants, their sources and agents. It also means that similar public servants may become risk averse if their governments' operational pursuits conflict with those of America. All of which adds up to 'perfect' persuasion.) ( [6 ] ) Additionally, it means that the US possibly unable to 'grow' its own intelligence network organically can stay ahead by shutting- ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 41 - 01 Jun 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue49/lob49-16.htm
... the departments concerned with foreign affairs had intervened". (79) The key to this Allied protection of post-war Nazi networks, Stevenson shrewdly surmised, was the U.S . decision in 1945 to take over and subsidise the Nazi intelligence network of General Reinhard von Gehlen. Gehlen in turn helped place numerous former Nazis as his agents in other countries, some (like Barbie) as employees of import-export firms established by his own agency, others as local representatives of Krupp, Daimler-Benz and other large West German firms. The Gehlen network, financed by the CIA but not directly controlled by it, soon had agents employed in a number of activities ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 40 - 01 Sep 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue12/lob12-11.htm
... Rhineland. At an emergency conference on March 19 and 20 Walter Citrine and Transport and General Workers Union leader Ernest Bevin launched a campaign for re-armament. Speakers included the former Bradford Labour MP and Nobel Peace Prize winner for 1933, Norman Angell, and Henry Wickham Steed, a veteran diehard Tory, former editor of The Times and agent of the Czechoslovak government. (3 ) A month later, after a rousing Commons speech on the subject of Germany on April 6 1936, the BNANC approached Churchill, and on 19 May 1936 what can be regarded as the first Focus lunch took place at the Hotel Victoria. Apart from Churchill, those present included Sir Robert Mond ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 40 - 01 Jun 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue25/lob25-07.htm
