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... .uk (Issue 27) June 1994 Last | Contents | Next Issue 27 The Searchlight saga continued An editorial in the issue of January 1994, calls for 'the investigation of nazi terror groups either to be put into the hands of a special police unit attached to the Police National Intelligence Bureau, or to be turned over to MI5 and MI6.... this proposal might astonish some of our readers. But it is clear that Special Branch's head office in London had failed to comprehend the dangerous nature of groups like Combat 18 here and abroad, or even give recognition to what they are already doing. Instead of infiltrating their own officers into these groups to gather intelligence ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Jun 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue27/lob27-03.htm
... to bend the subject into academically respectable shape, but you run the risk of leaving out what makes it interesting to the rest of us. You can have a discussion of bureaucratic and organisational models of the modern state, concluding that inter-agency rivalry is to be expected -- or you can have an overview of the MI5/MI6 turf wars. You can't, yet, have both. Which is not to say this book is 'Parapolitics for Beginners (with sociology degrees) '. Some of Gill's academic digressions are distinctly useful: the work of Graham Allison is well worth following up, for example. On the other hand, the index records five references to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue27/lob27-17.htm
... tanks, professional bodies (like the BMA), trade unions and religious movements or 'cults' are also included, wherever their activities have some involvement in the political arena. Internal party groupings like the Conservative Party's 1922 Committee or Labour's Tribune Group are also described and there is even an entry for MI5 (but not for Special Branch or MI6). Another useful feature of the volume is its listings of overseas groups or parties who have either a formal or informal input into British politics. The ANC, Earth First, Queer Nation, the (Nazi) Church of the Creator, the (French) Front National, and various other political groups, parties or terrorist groups ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue27/lob27-16.htm
... , and skipped through most of that. It might be true; it might all be complete baloney -- and I wouldn't know the difference. (And I'm not sure that Mr Adams would, either.) On the British end of things Adams tells us, inter alia There has been a complete purge of the upper echelons of MI6 in favour of younger people. (So a lot of disgruntled senior people to leak in the future?) SIS has got a lot of good sources inside Russia and 'this has helped keep the British position at the top table of spies'. (p . 80) (No myth like an old myth.) SIS and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue27/lob27-18.htm
... . This was apparently trailed in 'MI5; If peace comes to Northern Island, 1000 Security Service staff could be out of a job. So, will the spies turn to cracking crime? ' by David Rose in the Observer, 18 September 1994. Rose concluded; 'We will need an agency - possibly a subordinate, domestic wing of MI6 - to deal with foreign spies and terrorists. Whether it will take 2000 staff and 160 million is a very different matter. ' See also Rose's piece, 'Drugs police set to spike MI5 guns' in the Observer, 6 November, 1994. I certainly don't know enough about the British state to know who would win if the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 16 - 01 Dec 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue28/lob28-07.htm
... a good read. Porter has the gift of explaining complex events and ideas in simple language. There are sharp pen-pictures of the politicians who have dominated the period. The author is one of the first historians to acknowledge the parapolitical dimension in modern British history, from the formation of the Special Branch to the construction of the new MI6 headquarters over a century later. This is allied to a perception that covert forces, including in the 1970s the CIA, have generally worked to protect the interests of property and capital when these have been (or are imagined to have been) under threat from the Left. Notable examples are the anti-Bolshevik panics of the 1920s ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue28/lob28-12.htm
... Miller's account is the voice of journalists who have worked in Northern Ireland. The second is related to the first. For all his deconstruction and demystification, Miller has not done enough to show the allegiance to the state among media personnel. Daphne Park, for example, of the BBC Board of Governors, is not described as former senior MI6 officer. Paul Wilkinson is frequently quoted, but there is nothing on his part in the disinformation campaign against Colin Wallace, discussed in Lobster 16 , which led, I am told, to his losing the job as ITN's 'consultant' on terrorism, etc. Journalists James Adams and Chris Ryder are treated as straightforward sources despite public knowledge ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue28/lob28-14.htm
... Parry (18) that an American company, thought to be pressurised water reactor (PWR) specialists Westinghouse, was using a private detective agency to investigate objectors appearing at the Sizewell B inquiry. This agency was later revealed to be Zeus Securities, the brainchild of Peter Hamilton, a man with formidable establishment credentials and a long background in MI6. Zeus, then operated by ex-MI5 officer, Jeremy Wetherall, of another security firm, Lynx, was given the contract to organise the surveillance, which they sub-contracted to Sapphire Investigation Bureau, run by Barrie Peachman. The story of Peachman, his use of the unsavoury far rightist, Vic Norris, who claims ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 01 Dec 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue28/lob28-11.htm
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 29) June 1995 Last | Contents | Next Issue 29 The Perfect English Spy Tom Bower, Heinemann, London This is the biography of Dick White, the only man to have been head of both MI5 and MI6 (SIS) and it is a massive breach of the new Official Secrets Act. For Bower not only had access to White's memoir of the period, with White to vouch for him, he spoke to 'dozens' of former officers, mostly SIS, all of whom have broken their 'duty of confidentiality', or whatever the exact form of words it was that the Thatcher government ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 32 - 01 Jun 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue29/lob29-12.htm
... 1953 coup is conventionally regarded primarily as a CIA operation, yet the planning record reveals not only that Britain was the prime mover in the initial project to overthrow the government but also that British resources contributed significantly to the eventual success of the operation. Two first-hand accounts of the Anglo-American sponsorship of the coup - by the MI6 and CIA officers primarily responsible for it - are useful in reconstructing events.(1 ) Many of the secret planning documents that reveal the British role have been removed from public access and some of them remain closed until the next century - for reasons of 'national security'. Nevertheless, a fairly clear picture still emerges. Churchill later ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 63 - 01 Dec 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue30/lob30-01.htm
