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... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 38) Winter 1999 Last | Contents | Next Issue 38 Defending the Realm: MI5 and the Shayler Affair Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding Andre Deutsch, London, 1999 17.99 At one level this whole Shayler affair is quite odd. For Shayler is the quintessential, contemporary, football-mad, New Labour-oriented, a-political technocrat - someone who can use the word modern' without blushing and putting it in scare quotes. (Shayler's complaints about MI5 can be seen in his submission to the Cabinet Office Review of the security and intelligence services, printed here as appendix 2: ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 102 - 01 Dec 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue38/lob38-18.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 Psy ops in Northern Ireland The campaign to discredit the Labour Party throughout 1974-76 extended across the Irish Sea to Northern Ireland. It began almost immediately after the election of February, the Ulster Workers' Council general strike of May providing the major opportunity. Called to bring down the power-sharing executive, the alliance of middle-of-the-road Protestants and Social Democratic and Labour party members created by the Heath government, the strike was ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 102 - 01 Apr 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue11/lob11-10.htm
... , where some of the inmates were being sexually abused by the male staff. One of them, the late William McGrath, was a senior figure in the Loyalist movement and ran a strange organisation called Tara.2 The Kincora abuse has been an acutely embarrassing issue for the British state because elements of its secret arms in Northern Ireland, MI5 and the RUC Special Branch, were aware of the abuse of the inmates but chose to ignore it because of MI5's interest in McGrath. Among the documents Wallace had kept from his days working for the secret state's psy-ops Information Policy unit in Northern Ireland was a memorandum he had written in 1974 which showed institutional awareness of the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 101 - 26 Jan 2017 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster73/lob73-colin-wallace.pdf
... - 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: 99 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-13.htm
... Intelligence, Security and the Attlee Governments, 1945-51: An Uneasy Relationship? Daniel W B Lomas Manchester University Press, 2017, h/b , £75.00 In December 1945, George Orwell wrote in Tribune wondering what happened to Special Branch, MI5 and MI6 when a Labour government was in office. This was when he still thought the Attlee government might attack the bastions of ruling class power in Britain by closing down the secret state, taking over the public schools, abolishing the House of Lords and confiscating the wealth of the rich and super rich. The short answer in 1945 was that Special Branch, MI5 and MI6 actually began working for the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 99 - 01 Nov 2017 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster74/lob74-intelligence-security.pdf
... 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: 99 - 01 Apr 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue04/lob04-09.htm
... 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
... /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: 95 - 01 Nov 1987 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue14/lob14-04.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
... ); 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
