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... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 46) Winter 2003 Last | Contents | Next Issue 46 Historical Notes Scott Newton Back to the future: the USA, the UK and Iraq The US threatens to attack Iraq and is backed by the UK. There are objections in the UN Security Council from Russia and France. A large task force is assembled. Guess what happens next? Not a lot. There is a diplomatic crisis temporarily resolved after the intervention of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and no invasion takes place because this is 1998 not 2003. In all the ferment about the second Gulf war there was hardly any reference to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 63 - 01 Dec 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue46/lob46-03.htm
... more attention to South East Asia and Africa than was possible in the present volume. Fair enough. As the British Empire dissolved in the post-war period, MI6, the foreign intelligence service, often accompanied by the recently created CIA, moved into the newly emergent countries recently vacated by MI5, the service responsible not only for domestic security in the UK but also throughout the Empire; so this aspect needs a separate treatment. Divided into seven roughly equal parts, this covers in chronological order the period from the end of World War 2 to the present day. Each section has a theme which is itself treated more or less chronologically. These themes are either geopolitical, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 63 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-02.htm
... subscribing to his publications then. And rumour, repeated rumour has it that the Palace was involved in some of the 'What is to be done about a British crisis - a coup? ' discussions which were taking place then. On February 25th Ken asked the Prime Minister "if she will make a statement on the present definition of national security adopted by her Majesty's Government." The reply was really rather odd: "This term is generally understood to refer to the safeguarding of the state and the community against threats to their survival and well-being. I am not aware that any previous Administration has thought it appropriate to adopt a specific definition of the term." ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 63 - 01 Jun 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue16/lob16-11.htm
... . The authors lay the material out along parallel tracks. They present the official version of what happened and then the views of what they call 'the sceptics'.( [1 ] ) The official world in the US knew it was al-Qaeda without needing to investigate. Bin Laden had been near or at the top of the security agenda in the US for a decade; his desire to attack America had been on lots of official bits of paper. Sections of the US security and foreign policy bodies were literally waiting for an attack to come, having failed in the months before the event to persuade the new Bush White House team to take the threat seriously. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 62 - 01 Dec 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue50/lob50-29.htm
... Times: 1948 Director Hambros Bank: 1956 board of Times newspapers: 1959 Deputy Chair Times Newspapers: NAFF Council member. BALL George Joseph: 1921 MI5 (Civil Assistant to Military Intelligence): 1924 head of Government Central Intelligence Department (renamed Publicity Department): 1930-39 Director Conservative Research Department: 1940-42 Deputy Chair of Security Executive overseeing the intelligence services, particularly MI5 BELOFF Max: 1940-41 Royal Corps of Signals: from 1957 Professor of Government and Public Administration Oxford University: founder and Principal of University College, Buckingham: chaired NATO committee handling allocation of research grants: ISC Council. BENCHLEY Thomas Frank: WW2 Royal Corps of Signals: post- ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 62 - 01 Apr 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue11/lob11-20.htm
... ianfraser.org/chuka-umunna-pwcs-useful-idiot> Snowdenia and Labour In the wake of the Snowden/NSA/GCHQ revelations, Labour's Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, dipped her toes into the water with a speech to Demos.11 Inter alia, amidst all the usual forelock-tugging about how wonderful our security and intelligence services are, she quoted with approval Andrew Parker, head of MI5, who said: 'the reason why things are secret is not because......... we want to keep them from the public. It is because we need to keep them from the people that we are investigating.. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 62 - 28 Apr 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster67/lob67-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... with the 11th African Division. It had already crossed the Italian Somaliland border. Since he was regularly switched between the forward brigades for the quick interrogation of prizoners and the examination of captured documents he saw all the major actions of the wide-ranging campaign; and when the towns of Mussolini's Italian African Empire were occupied, he took over security duties, contact with the local police and carabinieri, rounding up leading Fascist officials and checking for possible stay-behind agents. Young reckoned that he owed his intelligence career to Major General Santini, captured outside Addis Ababa. He was warned by Division not breach any Geneva Conventions in his interrogation but he found the General only too happy ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 61 - 01 May 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue19/lob19-05.htm
... perjury trial has acquitted former Murdoch employee Andy Coulson, there's no risk of contempt of court and so I am free to explore a matter that has interested me for some time. Throughout the byzantine and years-long unfolding of the News International hacking scandal, there have been a few glimpses of what might have been peripheral involvement by the Security Service, MI5. I have only been keeping half an eye on the entire affair so the one that sticks in my mind is the 2011 revelation that News Int's semi-detached private investigator Glenn Mulcaire had somehow got access to an MI5 file on a friend of Princes William and Harry.6 Since the friend in question was not ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 59 - 31 Jul 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-holding-pattern.pdf
... their roles, and maybe not the most significant. The CIA played a major role in facilitating the take-over (and retention) by U.S . multinational capital of a goodly chunk of the so-called Third World in the post-war era.(4 ) A similar role was played by the British intelligence and security services in the British state's attempts to hold on to its empire in the post-war era.(5 ) It is becoming increasingly clear that MI5 have played a considerable role in fragmenting and frustrating the British Left, and the FBI a similiar, albeit bloodier, role in the USA. I suspect we will find that throughout ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 59 - 01 Dec 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue34/lob34-08.htm
... a predetermined objective, when 'good' espionage can be exclusive, but is holistic, never singular. Other obfuscation includes the threat to government, including spooks, posed by 'do-it-yourself' diplomacy and/or justice: e.g . the campaigns mounted by Ken Bigley's family, prior to his execution in Iraq, to secure his release; or that of hotelier John Ward following the murder of his daughter Julie in Kenya. These personal tragedies have been presented in a vacuum, when the reality is that the campaigns organised by the families, and the conflicts of interests exposed, are examples of a trend.(2 ) 'The 52'There are two ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 58 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-14.htm
