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... of interesting chapters in Chapman Pincher's recent The Truth About Dirty Tricks, (Sidgwick and Jackson, 1991), especially the one about Harold Wilson's 'spymaster', the late George Wigg; but, despite the usual shower of interesting fragments, mostly it is junk. Pincher's primary strategy is clear enough. During the mid 1970s bureaucratic wars between MI5 and MI6, Maurice Oldfield, Chief of MI6, used Pincher to denigrate MI5, notably via a couple of stories supporting Harold Wilson's claims that he was the victim of operations by MI5. Unfortunately for Pincher, as a man of the political right, by 1987 he was being quoted by people like us against MI5, in support ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 96 - 01 May 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue21/lob21-02.htm
... 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
... /28 August 1987 The smearing of Colin Wallace Robin Ramsay JOHN WARE is an investigative reporter, widely regarded, by his peers, as one of the best television journalists working in this country. He worked with World in Action and is now with BBC's Panorama. It was to John Ware that Panorama entrusted its investigation into the Wilson-MI5 plots after the BBC embargo on the subject was lifted a couple of months ago. Like all the other journalists interested in this story, Ware went to see Colin Wallace, eventually spending four days going through Wallace's biography, his allegations, and photocopying some of his documents. Then three things happened. First, the little group of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 92 - 01 Nov 1987 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue14/lob14-04.htm
... ); 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- ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 92 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-42c.htm
... ) 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- ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 91 - 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 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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 90 - 01 Apr 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue11/lob11-03.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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 90 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/lobcc-09.htm
... could not belong, 'letting in and empowering members who were driven by political principles rather than unquestioning party loyalty regardless of policy' (pp. 31/2 ), notably members of the Militant Tendency; * and the rise to the leadership of this wider left of Tony Benn. The author's analysis of the situation agrees with that of MI5 and its allies on the right at the time, with one essential difference: MI5 was aware that the 'Moscow gold' from the Soviet Union was mostly going to the Communist Party's industrial department (which was running the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions). As a result anyone or any organisation which had contact with the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 87 - 20 Feb 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-that-option-no-longer-exists.pdf
... 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
... (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: ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 83 - 01 Apr 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue11/lob11-20.htm
