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... death of every soldier killed, in brutal front page attacks. The Sun's anti-Brown offensive was so vicious that Brown actually complained to Murdoch that the Sun was damaging the war effort in Afghanistan. In an unprecedented step, he arranged for Murdoch and Brooks 'to be given an off-the-record briefing by the then head of MI6, Sir John Scarlett..... Sir John warned them that the Taliban were using Sun stories as propaganda and that they were damaging British military morale'. Brooks apparently was having none of this, but Murdoch promised to tone the attacks down. It never happened. Getting Cameron into Downing Street took priority. The peculiar ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 09 Sep 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-murdoch.pdf
... this myth was illustrated recently when, asked how Britain's tiny SIS could make any impact on the world drugs trade when the U.S . agencies had failed with hundreds of times the resources of SIS, a 'man from the FO [Foreign Office] ' replied: 'Ah yes, but you have to take account of the fact that MI6 is the most professional and efficient intelligence in the world. This is not to criticise the Americans, of course, but.... '( 13) The third theme has been that British decline was caused by treachery - the enemy within. Hence the anti-communist activity since the war which reached a peak in the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue34/lob34-08.htm
... ' without trace. 8 According to Spence, Stalin was a Tsarist secret police informer on other left and anarchist groups - hardly surprising news to anyone familiar with the modus operandi of many in revolutionary politics. 9 Conspicuous by his absence from the author's list is Arthur Ransome, recently revelealed to have been been working in the Soviet Union for MI6. 10 See Wilde's Last Stand by Philip Hoare (1997 ), reviewed in Lobster 38 . 11 Yes, seeds. This seems odd but this is what the author says. 12 But does this prove the opposite? Are events being secretly determined by a tiny elite? 13 Trotsky did ferry funds to them from the German military ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-45b.htm
... Oman) regarding leaks to the media of Scarlett's note to Alastair of 20th September 2002. He refers to MI5's analysis of the "45 minute report" and highlights the original circulation of the document to various departments. The usual suspects are there: SIS, MI5, GCHQ and MOD get between 7 copies for MI5 and 20 copies for MI6. But also listed are 32 (yes 32) copies for the DTI. Why? I wonder. Some kind of export initiative? ' Or the DTI is full of spooks under cover? Hearing No. 10 spokesman Tom Kelly telling some British journalists that Dr David Kelly was a 'Walter Mitty character' must have made Colin Wallace ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue46/lob46-14.htm
... some time next year, and an English- language version should follow. (In a telephone conversation with me Brian Crozier described our version of Pinay as a mixture of fact and fiction. I invited him to correct any errors we had made but have heard nothing.) Fielding's account of McLean's life makes it plain that McLean was an MI6 officer for most, if not all, of the post-war period. If true, Fielding's claim above about Julian Amery is new. RR Last | Contents | Next ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Nov 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue22/lob22-08.htm
... / 2004/08/29/ixnewstop.html> The fact that the article was on the site for two months tell us that no-one is reading the site. The Croatian original, in English, with the names of the alleged SIS officers, is on Cryp-tome <http://cryptome.org/mi6-croatia.htm> 2 The best summary of this complicated tale was by Paul Mitchell on the World Socialist Website <www.wsws.org/articles/2004/oct2004/balk-027_pm.shtml> 3 This furore is discussed at <http://intellit.muskingum.edu/uk_folder ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-24.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
... obsession, it is still transparently false. There is no 'syndicate', no matter how loosely you define it and his definition is very loose indeed. And how long are authors going to continue taking seriously John Coleman (he of the 'Committee of 300' nonsense, cited extensively here), and his description of himself as a former MI6 officer? Last | Contents | Next ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-47b.htm
269. Re: [Lobster #49 (Summer 2005)]
... was forced to abort a destabilisation operation in South Yemen. The Suez Crisis is also discussed, with Little arguing that the post-Suez falling out between the US and Britain was due in part to misunderstandings about covert action. The US favoured'[bringing down] Nasser.... gradually with the help of the CIA and MI6, while Eden, Lloyd, and Macmillan preferred to proceed more swiftly with the help of the Israeli army and the Royal Navy. ' Douglas Little, 'Mission impossible: the CIA and the cult of covert action in the Middle East',Diplomatic History 28 (5 ), (November 2004) pp. 683-701. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue49/lob49-28.htm
... .It is therefore lamentable that all security and intelligence services have been given a blanket exemption from the Freedom of Information Act via s23.....It provides an absolute exemption for information that was supplied directly or indirectly, or relates to the following security bodies: the Security Service (MI5), the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), GCHQ, Special Forces .. .the National Criminal Intelligence Service...a certificate from a minister is all that is needed for the exemption to apply.......The security services in the United States manage to operate within the confines of their (much stronger) FOI law. That is ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue49/lob49-37.htm