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... MI5". This is not true. Wallace may suspect this - I certainly do - but there is no evidence to substantiate one's suspicions and, to my knowledge, Wallace has never alleged this. "In an account he claims to have written in 1976 as evidence of his intimate involvement in the intelligence world, Wallace talks of an MI6 operative he knew. In fact that document reveals an event - the death of a policeman - that actually occurred in December 1981." I think I've read most of Wallace's output and the only document I can think of from the period Ware is talking about is an essay on the work of "Bunny" Dearsley. There is ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Nov 1987 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue14/lob14-04.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
... coups The private armies' of 1974 re-examined The National Association for Freedom Destabilising the Wilson government 1974-76 Marketing the dirt Psy ops in Northern Ireland The central role of MI5 Conclusions Appendix 1: ISC, FWF, IRD Appendix 2: the Pinay Circle Appendix 3: FARI & INTERDOC Appendix 4: the Conflict Between MI5 and MI6 in Northern Ireland Appendix 5: TARA Appendix 6: Examples of political psy ops targets 1973/4 - non Army origin Appendix 7 John Colin Wallace 1968-76 Appendix 8: Biographies Bibliography Introduction This is issue 11 of The Lobster, a magazine about parapolitics and intelligence activities. Details of subscription rates and previous issues are at the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Apr 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue11/index.htm
... the coup plotting has come from the right, and in a modern industrialised society such activities are only possible for long if the State tolerates them, or is, itself, involved in them. Christie's book presents great problems for this reviewer. Who, in this country, is qualified to say anything intelligent about it? Some members of MI6 maybe. This kind of parapolitical research into anything just isn't practised here: Christie's book is virtually without precedent in this country. So, the first thing to say about it is: buy it. It's available from BCM/Refract, London WC1N 3XX, price 4.50. Christie has amassed a great deal of information about ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Nov 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue06/lob06-07.htm
... with an interest in Africa, who suggested flying with him and a senior director of Lonrho to Unita's headquarters at Jamba, Southern Angola, to preside over the return of some British hostages. In some reports, in Private Eye in particular, it has been claimed that the whole affair was orchestrated by an alliance of right-wingers in MI6, the Foreign Office, Unita, and Lonrho. There is no direct evidence of this but it is clear that some people are highly embarrassed by Britain's support of the Marxist government in Angola, and the pointers towards a plot are highly suggestive. In July 1983 Sir James Scott Hopkins MP travelled with three other MPs to Jamba where ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Aug 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue05/lob05-05.htm
... the psychedelic counter-culture undermined traditional values' such as patriarchy, nationalism and subservience to authority; for elements of the Left, the 1960s hedonism of Sex, Drugs and Rock n' Roll' served as a distraction from political struggle and party discipline. To flesh out the theory, extra villains have been thrown in: Satanists, MI6, shrinks of the Tavistock Institute, the Grateful Dead, and the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory (whose Marxist musicologist, Theodor Adorno, is said to have secretly tutored the Beatles during their Hamburg period'), etc., etc. My book of 2001, Acid: A New Secret History of LSD, has been referenced ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 08 Nov 2019 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster78/lob78-getting-it-wrong.pdf
... mind control Plundering the Public Sector The Intelligence Files: Today's secrets, tomorrow's scandals The Cliveden Set Pieces without an author's name are by the editor Parish Notices Thanks to the usual suspects for information, especially Jane Affleck and Robert Henderson for the continuous stream of articles; and to Phil Chamberlain who spotted Norman Baker's House of Commons adjournment debate on MI6. The content of a number of the articles and reviews in this issue may seem to overlap or to be related. I could claim that this was clever editing on my part but it is an accident; or, perhaps, something more than an accident but unintentional. Sometimes the people who write for this magazine just end up ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/index.htm
... were it not for Central Books, who have been distributing Lobster since issue 16, generating that bit of extra sales revenue to help keep this curious enterprise afloat. To them, and their efficiency, my thanks. This issue contains a striking example of how the world has changed. Which newspaper has been running stories about alleged involvement of MI6 in the assassination of Princess Diana? That famous lefty rag, The Daily Express. Looking at Terry Hanstock's account of the recent developments in the Di murder mystery below, I am almost persuaded that I should be taking this seriously. At any rate, I am wondering why I don't..... Contributors to this issue ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue51/index.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
... 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
