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... the Executive of the Labour Finance and Industry Group (LFIG) and in edition 5 of the LFIG News (1997) she was described as Foreign Policy Adviser to John Smith (1992-4 ) and Special Adviser to Jack Cunningham. In 1997 she became Chair of the Atlantic Council and she has since been appointed to the Intelligence and Security Committee.(4 ) The SIS-John Smith connection extends a little further. John Smith's widow, Lady Smith, was appointed to the SIS-front organisation, the Hakluyt Foundation. Baroness Smith has recently been appointed a director of the Hakluyt Foundation...... established in 1995 by the late Sir Fitzroy Maclean ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 40 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-10.htm
... these have 'evolved into computerised digital maps of human faces. ' Perhaps this information and where it came from has rattled some cages. There is another possible explanation for the crackdown on Geraghty. He argues quite strongly that the war in Northern Ireland is not really over, that the IRA is repositioning itself for another round, and that the security forces must be ready for this. I suspect that this interpretation of developments comes from the same sources as provided the details of electronic surveillance. It seems likely that the raid on Geraghty was intended to silence those elements in the security services opposed to current Northern Ireland policy as much as to maintain the secrecy of Big Brother's watchers. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 34 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-16.htm
293. Feedback [Lobster #37 (Summer 1999)]
... in Lobster 36 ( 'Peter's Friends'?) I have remained close to David Shayler and Annie Machon, his girlfriend and also a former MI5 officer, since we first broke the story. Consequently, I can clarify the issue of whether David or Annie possessed or knew of 'concrete evidence' that senior Labour ministers had 'worked for the Security Services'. The reasons the Mail on Sunday did not publish this story is very simple: we knew it was completely untrue. The 'friend' of Shayler who briefed the Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph did not understand the issues or the facts. This person hopelessly confused our original story about MI5's bugging of Mandelson and speculated wildly and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 27 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-26.htm
... could carry. As night fell, both the wounded and the well concealed themselves in a rum shop at Port Kaituma, awaiting evacuation in the morning. Meanwhile, some five miles away, and unknown to anyone in Port Kaituma, a holocaust was unfolding in Jonestown. Guyanese defense forces arrived at the airstrip shortly after that Sunday morning. Securing the runway, the troops turned toward Jonestown, marching down the long, rough road to the commune. Arriving there at mid-morning, they were horrified to find a field of cadavers: men, women and children lying in an arc around the settlement's central pavilion. Some 200 bodies were quickly counted, but the numbers of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-01.htm
... bought this book because of a review in The Nation (14 July 1997) by one Max Holland, described as a contributing editor and the compiler of a history of the Warren Commission, for Houghton Mifflin, entitled A Need to Know. The authors are Aleksandr Fursenko, a Russian historian, and Timothy Naftali, a 'fellow in International Security Studies' at Yale. It's mainly about the Cuban Missile Crisis, drawing on what are described as declassified KGB and other Soviet intelligence materials. The Nation review was generally favourable, with the exception of references to a chapter entitled 'Dallas and Moscow' -'... according to KGB analysts, an anti-Soviet coup d'etat ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-03.htm
... From Sidney Reilly and T. E. Lawrence through to Fitzroy Maclean and Orde Wingate, Churchill enjoyed the company of such men, listening to their stories of secret operations, of murder and mayhem, and narrow escapes. Certainly this reflected a romantic streak in his intellectual make-up, but it also represented a belief that sometimes the security of the Empire required the services of adventurers who were not bound by conventional rules, men who could undertake the dirty, deniable, work best carried out in the shadows. This tendency was at its most grotesque during the Irish War of Independence when Churchill was responsible for the activities of British death squads in Ireland. Police and soldiers ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-06.htm
... anarchist Donald Rooum, charged in the 1960s with carrying a brick on a demonstration. But Rooum knew that had he possessed a brick, particles of it would adhere to the inside of his pocket. Before leaving the police station, he arranged for his solicitor to have the coat forensically examined. Once his innocence had been proved and compensation secured, it turned out that the same policeman had obtained convictions by falsely accusing 16 others of the same offence. The policeman - no relation of mine - was Detective Sergeant Harold Chalenor. His autobiography has recently been published. Perhaps not surprisingly, he conveniently suffers from amnesia about 17 cases involving missing bricks. While Chalenor was not charged ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-24.htm
... International History Project (http://cwihp.si.edu/default.htm), Cuban Missile Crisis (full text of 250 official govt docs at Avalon Project: www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/forrelcuba/cubamenu.htm) and the Inspector-General's Survey of the Cuban Operations (Nat Security Archive: www.gwu.edu/ ~nsarchiv/news/ 19980222.htm), the IG's scathing 1961 critique on the CIA handling of the Bay of Pigs invasion, withheld for 36 years. Gulf War - Washington Post's coverage; analysis; declassified docs: (www.washingtonpost.com/wpsrv/inatl/long ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 67 - 01 Dec 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue38/lob38-28.htm
... avoid this area: it just doesn't get its due. The biggest story, the most important development, in our knowledge of the Loyalist paramilitaries in the past ten - maybe twenty - years gets three and a bit pages from Taylor. After recounting how in 1989 the UDA/UFF were getting official, classified, intelligence material from the security forces, he writes: 'To republicans and nationalists it was clear evidence of collusion between members of the security forces and the loyalist paramilitaries' (emphasis added). Not so: it was clear evidence to anyone. Taylor describes how, using state intelligence, the UDA's 'targeting' of the Nationalist community improved: fewer Catholics were murdered ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 42 - 01 Dec 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue38/lob38-07.htm
... whole Shayler affair is quite odd. For Shayler is the quintessential, contemporary, football-mad, New Labour-oriented, a-political technocrat - someone who can use the word 'modern' without blushing and putting it in scare quotes. (Shayler's complaints about MI5 can be seen in his submission to the Cabinet Office Review of the security and intelligence services, printed here as appendix 2: they are almost entirely bureaucratic and technical.) In a recent column of his in Punch - issue 93 in the present, post Al Fayed, takeover series - he comments on the hypocrisy of his persecution while the former SIS officer with the pseudonym Alan Judd, gets access to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 40 - 01 Dec 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue38/lob38-18.htm
