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... the running of Basra. However, the proliferation of influential think tanks in the private sector (often staffed by former Stalinists) is likely to influence executive government in overriding what their own experts have to tell them. We saw this with Bush and Blair either ignoring or sexing-up' the evidence on WMD provided by the CIA and MI6. This process can only be fueled by defective intelligence derived from the privatised torture of hapless goat-herders and taxi-drivers who have been flown around the world in private aircraft, to make money out of telling the political leadership what they want to hear. What's instructive about both Klein and Marshall's books is that they confound the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-33.htm
... since the days when specialists' helped the Muhajideen against the Soviets in the 1980s. The US strike against the Taliban, backed without much subtlety by the last Prime Minister, brought into play some awkward facts. The UK's largest Muslim minority is from Pakistan. Western engagement against Islamism in Western Asia would naturally create conflicts of loyalty. While MI6 might enjoy itself understanding the intricacies of Pathan tribal politics, it was MI5 that was going to have to pick up the pieces. As we move towards 2008, the last Prime Minister's over-speedy insertion of expensive military collateral into Iraq may now be slowly and nervously turning into a withdrawal, but his similar insertion of troops into ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-03.htm
... highlighted by Nick Clegg MP has been stood down. He was quoted in The Times 11 September 2007 with a plan which would mean a combined anti-terrorism intelligence force, answerable to the Home Secretary, freeing SIS to continue with its core functions, answerable to the Foreign Secretary'. This would avoid a wholesale take-over of MI6 priorities by MI5-led anti-terrorism operations, ' which, he said, many intelligence operatives fear. Note: In the old' days spook lobbying and territorial warfare were invisible. Given other associations including cash-for-peerages, if the spooks do not back off politicians they could inadvertently leave the public with the impression ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-14.htm
264. RE: [Lobster #55 (Summer 2008)]
... and their associates don't have past form when it comes to helping family members into the next world. George V was given a fatal injection on his deathbed in order that news of his demise would appear first in the morning edition of The Times and not in some lesser publication' later in the day.(1 ) And it wasn't MI6. This assumes that, as former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove would have us believe, Secret Intelligence Service service personnel follow the rules. A less trusting Michael Mansfield QC, for Mr Al Fayed, suggested there are things countenanced within the service that do not exactly match the structures and controls in place. Rogue elements could act without ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 43 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-39.htm
... a former After Dark guest but also not willing to authenticate claims I could not substantiate, I reached for another of our laws of conspiracy: Rule D: The journey away from truth. We know the secret world has biases towards certain personality traits and it is not always the case that stability is preeminent. (18) (Did MI6 make Richard Tomlinson what he is or was MI6 attracted to Tomlinson in the first place in part because of those attributes which were later to cause so much trouble?) So if a loyal servant of the Crown trips over something unethical, distasteful or somehow incompatible with decency, it should not be too surprising if this turns a silent ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 31 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-03.htm
... Movement. After becoming president of the Scottish Union of Students he became manager of the intelligence-linked Fund for International Student Cooperation (FISC), the outfit at the centre of student politics rows in the 1960s in which a key figure was Meta (now Baroness) Ramsay, later, if not at the time, a member of MI6. Ramsay, a student friend of Foulkes, was secretary of FISC, an alleged CIA front operation. Foulkes went on to become Scottish organiser of the European Movement and director of the European League for Economic Co-operation, an organisation which likewise gave brief employment, before a safe Labour seat and a parliamentary career, to Roy ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-18.htm
... Carter, Kissinger, Nunn, Brezezinski, Schultz, Howe, Carlucci, David Howell – bemoan the mess made by the current administrations in Washington and London. In the List of contributors' Sir Mark Allen is described as a a retired member of HM Diplomatic Service', the current euphemism for SIS. If you google <MarkAllen+ MI6> you get thousands of hits. So why persist with the euphemism? One day there may be enough material available to work out which of these versions is true. Last | Contents | Next ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-47b.htm
... of government that successive Thatcherite administrations were interested in, in Northern Ireland, were permanent coalitions of orange and green parties that drew on religious support but enforced the rule of capital.(30)It is hard to say whether Sinn Fein were always seen as an integral part of this process by British administrations, but secret diplomacy resumed through MI6 in 1989 and this time proved more durable. It led to the Downing Street Declaration of 1992 and the deliberate scuppering of the Combined Loyalist Military Command who wanted to close down sectarian killings and take out the IRA leadership.(31) At every turn, despite the myth that the political right are the natural allies of Unionism in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-22.htm
... shouldn't hold their breath however, as one of the consistent patterns in this story is the regular quashing of investigations that threaten to go somewhere. The only other British media link was The Observer's David Rose, who wrote an article for Vanity Fair three years ago.(6 ) Rose recently revealed that he had a relationship with MI5 and MI6 in the past,(7 ) and, given the proximity of British intelligence to the A. Q. Khan network, which forms the core proliferation group which Edmonds links to U.S . officials, it is difficult to know what to make of his piece exposing Edmonds' allegations to a wider audience. He states that ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 63 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-36.htm
270. Re: [Lobster #56 (Winter 2008/9)]
... , it will trace the development of D-Notices from nineteenth century colonial campaigns, through two World Wars, to modern operations and counter-terrorism .Examples are drawn from media, political and official sources (some not yet open), and cover not only Defence (including Special Forces), but also the activities of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ. ' <http://www.dnotice.org.uk > David Sharrock, D-notice slapped on MoD's history of censorship, Secrecy and the media, after spat over "turgid" writing', The Times, 24 October 2008; Jack Lefley, MOD censors its censor's history for being boring' ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-42.htm
