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... the book is unlikely to find a home on many coffee tables. This is despite the fact that nearly everybody in the country will be familiar with, if not the sight, then the reputations of such featured icons as the 'golf balls' at Fylingdales and Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire, the Greenham Common airfield in Berkshire, and the MI6 building at Vauxhall Cross in central London. Many English landscapes particularly but not exclusively at airfields east of the Pennines, closest to our expected foes bear the imprint of the heavy government investment in militarisation on our behalf throughout the Cold War period. Our taxes created all of this. Shame that nobody asked us about the aesthetics. But ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue46/lob46-39.htm
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 33) Summer 1997 Last | Contents | Next Issue 33 The Secret War for the Falklands The SAS, MI6 and the War Whitehall Nearly Lost Nigel West Little Brown and Company, 1996, 16.99 There are two substantial essays in here, one about the SAS raid on the Argentine mainland which didn't take place, and the other about the SIS operation to prevent the French delivering any more Exocets to the Argentine armed forces. Both episodes have been written about before, though not in this detail. The other 80% of the book is little more than padding - on the Israeli commando ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-12.htm
... contribute to explaining this historic transformation? Their book, they proclaim, is the first biography of the great man that Downing Street refused any cooperation; and it is easy to see why. They present a devastating picture of Blair and his court that brims over with telling detail. Of particular interest to readers of Lobster is the revelation that MI6 head-hunted Charles Clarke when he was Neil Kinnock's political adviser. It is good to know that the Home Office is in a safe pair of hands. As for Blair himself, all you really need to know about him is captured by his sneering remark, when he was Leader of the Opposition, about Frank Dobson: 'God ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue50/lob50-53.htm
... Last | Contents | Next Issue 26 Enemies of the State Gary Murray Simon and Schuster, London, 1993 For twenty five years Gary Murray worked as an RAF policeman and private investigator. In the early 1970s Murray 'unexpectedly' (invitation?) joined the Operations Intelligence cadre of 21 SAS, and this led to close contact with people from MI6, Army SIB, the Royal Military Police and the Parachute Regiment. In 1980 Murray became increasingly involved in investigating the activities of journalists, TV producers, MPs and former military officers. At that point MI5 expressed an interest in his range of contacts and invited him to become an asset. But after just two years he became disillusioned ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue26/lob26-12.htm
... Curtain It begins in the early 1950s, some of the cooler years of the Cold War. US intelligence had no reliable information on the Soviet Union. (This was before U-2 over-flights and satellites.) Soviet nuclear arms, even the Soviet economy, were a mystery.All the agents sent in by CIA and MI6 had been turned or captured. How could they get agents in? One way was to send them in as defectors. There seems to have been a CIA programme of defectors Armstrong discusses some of the others in which, he hypothesises, there was an attempt at a better class of defection. Armstrong believes the CIA ran two real ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue47/lob47-33.htm
... of the British state's attempts to enforce its 'everything official is secret' legislation – run through the House of Commons before WW1 during a panic about German espionage – and its subsequent modifications. Before WW2, in practice the state was willing to clobber little people – e.g . the novelist Compton MacKenzie who revealed a handful of secrets about MI6 in a book in the 1930s – but unwilling to do anything when prime minister Lloyd George took van loads of official (and thus secret) papers home while writing his memoirs. Later PMs, Eden, Churchill and Wilson followed this example. After the war we get accounts of the familiar controversies surrounding the publication of the diaries of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 02 Mar 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster65/lob65-classified.pdf
217. Re: [Lobster #48 (Winter 2004)]
... vice charges. ' The entries are scrupulously researched judging by the wealth of references on offer in the footnotes. These cover not simply books and journal articles, but also written, film and sound archives. There's also a fair sprinkling of 'private information' and 'personal knowledge'. Thus John Bruce Lockhart's entry for for former Deputy Chief of MI6 and founder of Unison and Tory Action in the 1970s George Kennedy Young ( '. .. an outstanding figure with his great height [and] red hair... ') rather magnanimously depicts him as'...at heart a militant Scottish covenanter, believing deeply in the rights of the individual against the central forces ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-23.htm
... book in the Preface: 'In the late 1960s and early 1970s, while the conventional forces of government were openly combating terrorism in Ireland, other agencies within the intelligence community in the United Kingdon believed that unorthodox methods and techniques were required in the war. The intervention of these groupings, which included Special Branch, military intelligence, MI5 and MI6, was uncoordinated. Much has been written about that period, some of it honest journalism, but most of it (emphasis added) propaganda inspired by the terrorists and their supporters.... One area of the dirty war which I was obliged to confront was the use of black propaganda by the terrorists as well as the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 May 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue21/lob21-04.htm
... unseat the president of Venezuela. Where the US-funded National Endowment for Democracy is at work, MacShane is rarely far away (see Lobster 47 ). To complete the picture, we should also mention that MacShane is on the policy council of the Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) whose chair in the House of Lords is old MI6 hand Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale. LFI It proved to be a heavy security presence in Whitehall for an LFI event in April that caused the re-routing of a march to the Cenotaph of retired British service personnel seeking equity in pensions. Hundreds of veterans, some in wheelchairs, had assembled by the Ministry of Defence for their dignified ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-07.htm
... . We know his views on political spin from earlier writings,(1 ) but he now extends this to what, in the name of 'modernisation', this small but powerful 'Political Class' has, through the practice of 'manipulative populism', done to a variety of British institutions, including the Civil Service, the Foreign Office, MI6, the legal system, the monarchy and Parliament. Oborne writes well and his anger-fuelled text carries the reader along at a great lick. One thing that made him particularly hot under the collar was the way MPs at the turn of the century began hounding Elizabeth Filkin, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards: 'Soon a sinister pattern ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-38.htm
