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... it up for the paper -- the traditional role of the British defence correspondents', famously the captives of their Whitehall sources. In fact this is more interesting than I expected. In this instance Adams has persuaded some of the big cheeses from the CIA and the Russian intelligence service to talk to him, as well as SIS and MI5, and the result is a kind of survey of the new world disorder. I'm not very interested in, or knowledgeable about, the current state of the CIA or the Russian service, and skipped through most of that. It might be true; it might all be complete baloney -- and I wouldn't know the difference. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 91 - 01 Jun 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue27/lob27-18.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
... (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
... ', Irish Times, 26 January 1974. According to Mr Blake Knox, I am a professional fantasist' (p . 182) who originated untrue stories spread about Thomas Niedermayer. On p. 184 the following appears: Following the [Thomas Niedermayer] abduction, journalists were given off the record briefings from [Colin] Wallace and MI5 officers that suggested several alternative reasons for what had happened. In two of these scenarios, loyalists were blamed for the kidnapping. According to Robert Fisk, journalists were told that "a prominent Protestant politician was involved in the murder of the former West German Honorary Consul to Belfast". The reason given was that the politician's wife was ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 88 - 05 Sep 2019 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster78/lob78-killing-thomas-niedermayer.pdf
... 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
... For the history of the long march of this new definition of anti-semitism through the world's institutions, see the essay by Alison Weir.18 * new * All our yesterdays A reader asked me if I knew why the BBC had allowed a former employee, Paul Reynolds, to see some of the files generated by the once secret MI5 vetting of 14 Lynn Parramore, Noam Chomsky on the Populist Groundswell, U.S . Elections, the Future of Humanity, and More' at <https://tinyurl.com/ybpn82zw> or <https://www.ineteconomics.org/ perspectives/blog/noam-chomsky-on-the- ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 83 - 09 May 2018 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster75/lob75-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... /2013/11/sex-in-the- senate-bobby-baker-99530_Page3.html> On Rometsch see <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ JFKrometsch.htm>. the NSA/GCHQ's global surveillance ambitions. The Home Affairs Committee asked to question the head of MI5; the Home Secretary, Teresa May, duly refused on the grounds that his appearance would duplicate' the existing oversight provided by the Intelligence and Security Committee. Thus the beauty of the ISC from the state's perspective: it provides the appearance of accountability and scrutiny while actually providing neither. Its members are appointed by the prime minister ( ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 82 - 18 Dec 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-view-bridge.pdf
... The Secret War Between the Wars MI5 in the 1920s and 1930s Kevin Quinlan Woodbridge (Suffolk): The Boydell Press, 2014, £30, h/b T his began as the author's PhD thesis, based on the MI5 files of the interwar period, and it details some of their successes against the British left who were getting money from Moscow in the decade following the Soviet revolution; their handling of the very significant Tyler Kent/Right Club events which might have had a serious impact on WW2, delaying American entry; and the careful debriefing of Soviet intelligence defector Krivitsky, the first of its kind. Versions of these events, based on the same files ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 81 - 01 Dec 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-secret-war.pdf
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 29) June 1995 Last | Contents | Next Issue 29 The View From The Bridge Blob of the month Hear the one about the supposedly spook-watching magazine whose editor mis-spelt the name of the head of MI5? Yep: Rimmington, I had in the last issue: Rimington it should have been. Searchlight News Their campaign against Larry O'Hara has reached new depths. In the March issue they published his picture and described where they think he works and lives. Is this not conspiracy to cause actual bodily harm (or worse) to O'Hara? Since Larry will ignore the threat, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 80 - 01 Jun 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue29/lob29-06.htm