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... | Contents | Next Issue 35 Steady as she goes: Labour and the spooks Patriots not sneaks After a year of New Labour I feel beholden to write something on this subject, but what is there worth saying that isn't blindingly and depressingly obvious and predictable? Jack Straw, who took over as Home Secretary, and thus formally as the boss of MI5, is determined to sedate any sleeping dogs he comes across. When former MI5 officer, David Shayler, turned up bearing bad news about MI5, Straw bolted for respectability, proving a worthy inheritor of the Labour tradition of grovelling towards our secret servants exemplified by Merlyn Rees in the Callaghan Government. David Aaronovitch in the Independent ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Jun 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue35/lob35-09.htm
... been involved with SA front organisation Club of Ten'. Weaver's PR man, Geoff Wald, gave Gordon Winter a small bribe to knock down that particular rumour by writing a favourable article in The Citizen, Feb. 27th 1978: British Tycoon Denies Tie-up With SA Government. See Winter below pp488-491. 9. Inside BOSS - South Africa's Secret Police Gordon Winter (Penguin, London 1981) About to go out of print - essential reading. Caused Penguin considerable publishing and legal difficulties. (SD) 10. Economic Power in Anglo-South African Diplomacy Geoff Berridge (Macmillan, London 1981). Background to post-war UK-SA link: ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Sep 1983 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue01/lob01-06.htm
... .co.uk (Issue 26) December 1993 Last | Contents | Next Issue 26 .. .MI5 goes on forever How perceptions have changed! In Leveller 51, March 1981, there was this snippet: Why all the fuss about the Panorama programme on British Intelligence? Eventually there was just one cut -- Gordon Winter, BOSS agent, former freelance journalist, in a pre-title sequence: "British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team our man is the captain or the vice captain, and if not, he is the referee and he can send any man off the field and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Dec 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue26/lob26-06.htm
... Last | Contents | Next Issue 36 A War of Words: a Cold War Witness Christopher Mayhew I.B . Tauris, London, 1998, (hb) 25. Christopher Mayhew died recently thinking he set up the Information Research Department. As I have shown elsewhere, he was throughly manipulated by the Foreign Office - just like his boss at the time, Ernest Bevin, come to that. This short (142 pages) book contains 47 pages of Mayhew reminiscing about his involvement with IRD. His recollections were taped and edited by Lyn Smith, author in 1980 of one of the first big academic articles about IRD. One or two passages, for example on pp ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Dec 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue36/lob36-14.htm
... Smith, using declassified files) because, to quote Dean Mahin, then director of visitor programming at the Governmental Affairs Institute, the embassy clearly indicated that it was possible that she would become the first female PM of Britain. ' This raises two points. The minor one is that this supports Gordon Winter. For in his memoir Inside BOSS, Winter describes (p . 186) a 1968 meeting with Cecil Eprille a employee of the CIA front, Forum World Features, whom he quotes as saying, There's a feeling in America that she could become Britain's first woman prime minister', and suggesting that Winter do some detailed research about her and write a feature for Forum ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-26.htm
36. The View [Lobster #44 (Winter 2002)]
... a former Special Branch officer described how, during the Heath regime, he had warned MI5 of the looming miners' strike but MI5 had not passed this on to the Prime Minister. Were MI5 already gunning for Heath at that point and trying to drop him in it? In the second there were some comments of the former British Leyland boss Michael Edwardes who described going to the Cabinet Office to read the minutes of meetings between the Communist Party and our [ Leyland's] shop stewards........It was absolutely clear - the intention was to break the company.......bring the company down, bring the country down. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-22.htm
... ' Despite his problems de Courcy stayed in touch with Menzies during the war. The implication must be that he was a conduit into the Swedish establishment for Menzies and possibly for underground dealings with Germans willing to discuss peace such as Admiral Canaris, the Abwehr chief, Hermann Goering (whose chauffeur was a Swedish agent), the SS intelligence boss Walter Schellenberg or, at the end of the war, Heinrich Himmler. (De Courcy told me that he had met Himmler and thought him a man with no scruples but someone you could do business with: I assumed and still do that he was referring to prewar days). There remains one question. During and after the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-19.htm
... resist his sexual identity in button-down, homophobic, white America. All of which means? Nothing, perhaps: at best we have more layers to the onion, central figures in the drama with lives already draped in concealment, to whom we might properly attribute another layer of deception. Gay gangster, gay businessman, gay FBI boss, gay anti- Castro activist and, perhaps, emerging gay patsy. As Dean Andrews might have said, How d'you like them apples? ' Mr Liebeler. I am advised by the FBI that you told them that Lee Harvey Oswald came into your office some time during the summer of 1963. Would you tell us in your ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Nov 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue20/lob20-03.htm
... and demonstrably, unreliable. Hence the centrality of the wounds on the body in the legal mind -- and hence, in Lifton's view, the centrality to the assassination of the same best evidence'. For Fonzi the moment of illumination was the realisation that while he thought the HSCA was engaged in investigating the assassination, the investigation's new boss, Robert Blakey, a more sophisticated player of the bureaucratic game, actually saw his job as writing a report and delivering it on time. Those people out there thought we were investigating the assassination of President Kennedy. We were planning to get out a report. ' (p . 223) (And, while he was at ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue27/lob27-15.htm
... 2001 Lobster Contents | Cover Image Right-wing Terrorists and the Extraparliamentary Left in Post-World War 2 Europe: Collusion or Manipulation? The SAS, their early days in Ireland and the Wilson Plot AMBUSH: the war between the SAS and the IRA The Pinay Circle and Destabilisation in Europe Pinay 2: Jean Violet Gordon Winter: Inside BOSS and After Telecommunications at the End of the World Print Lobster is Steven Dorril (0484 681388) and Robin Ramsay (0482 447558). David Teacher is European Correspondent. All written correspondence should be sent to Lobster 214 Westbourne Avenune, Hull, HU5 3JB. UK Subscriptions Lobster appears occassionally, three times a year at present. Each ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Oct 1989 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue18/index.htm
