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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 19) May 1990 Last| Contents| Next Issue 19 Miscellaneous More, please In an account of his career as a writer of spy fiction (Guardian 16 November '89) John Le Carré referred to the hostile reaction received by his (unnamed) second book, presumably The Looking Glass War: 'Critics and public alike rejected the novel, but this time the spies were cross. And since the British secret service controlled large sections of the press, just as they may do today, for all I know, they made their fury felt.' Angleton's ghost A wonderful piece of disinformation appeared in a New York Times editorial (7 January ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 35 - 01 May 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue19/lob19-12.htm
... view of what he thinks is an enormous scandal: 'We have a Prime Minister who [while leader of the Opposition] engaged in a conspiracy with his wife, a QC, to pervert the course of justice, a Prime Minister who engaged in a conspiracy to criminally libel me and a Prime Minister who is using the security services to spy on me, despite the fact that the Crown Prosecution Service immediately found that I had committed no crime when the Blairs attempted to have me prosecuted on three utterly disparate charges. (The disparate nature of the charges alone suggests a desperate desire to obtain a prosecution at all costs.) All of this is substantiated by tapes and documents ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 35 - 01 Jun 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue39/lob39-11.htm
... to stand up in court.' Davies dismisses both the Belgrano papers and the Sizewell theory of Murrell's death. The latter he rejects by asserting that that Hilda had nothing new to say about nuclear power: 'No one who examined Hilda Murrell's work on Sizewell could ever point to any fact or argument which she had uncovered which could conceivably justify spying on her. When Rob Green later read her paper to the inquiry, it created no controversy. There was no Sizewell motive.' Which really isn't good enough. For Davies is ignoring the possibility that the nuclear state might have-- wrongly-- believed that Murrell knew something. For Davies, of all people, to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 34 - 01 Jun 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue27/lob27-12.htm
... case for the illegal invasion of Iraq – had taken a top job with an oil firm in the country. Adept SIS PR campaign continues N evertheless and in spite of ongoing reputational damage, SIS continues to run an adept stand-alone PR campaign. Doubtless coincidentally, it was bookended this year by two BBC radio programmes: Tom Mangold's Ship of Spies broadcast on the BBC World Service in February 2011 and Andrew Marr's Start the week discussion with Gordon Corera, Rosemary Hollis, Frank Ledwidge and Rory Stewart MP in October 2011. The latter was a 'safe-hands' controlled explosion if ever there was one, presumably in preparation for swingeing criticism heading the SIS's way this November in the report of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 33 - 15 Nov 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster62/lob62-agent-protection.pdf
... The Black Door Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac London: William Collins, £30 T his new book by two respected academics has a lot to tell us about how Britain is run. We are told, for example, that at a CBI dinner in December 1971, the Labour Party leader, Harold Wilson, boasted to the assembled businessmen of how, when in office, he had MI5 keep left-wing leaders of the trade union movement under surveillance, 'tapped or bugged'. Indeed, during the 1966 Seamen's Strike Wilson had received MI5 briefings on the dispute twice a day. According to Martin Furnival Jones, MI5's Director, no ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 32 - 01 Oct 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster72/lob72-black-door.pdf
... officials across Britain's spook community try to grow contemporary roots in civil society.( [7]) This relationship-building is a long-term process which will take years, punctuated, but not defined by, national elections. Initiatives include last year's brilliant GCHQ Christmas Quiz( [8] ); MI5's warnings to frequent travellers 'to watch out for foreign spies using undercover techniques ranging from the sex trap to lavish hospitality'( [9] ); teaching models for schools: 'Ask students to chose a spy from history and create a secret fact file on their chosen spy, giving personal details as well as summaries of their main missions'( [10]); and a research ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 32 - 01 Dec 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue50/lob50-34.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 37) Sumer 1999 Last| Contents| Next Issue 37 Spooks Hollis again What with the opening of the KGB archives and the testimony of Oleg Gordievsky, you might be forgiven for thinking that the question, Was MI5 Director-General Roger Hollis a Soviet spy? had been answered conclusively and resoundingly 'No'. You would be wrong- or so says the doyen of British espionage writers, Chapman Pincher. In a piece in the Western Daily Mail on 4 August 1998, Pincher reported the following. A Mr Einar Sanden, living in Cardiff, has researched the life of a famous Estonian footballer, called Evald Mikson. Mikson, learned Sanden, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 32 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-12.htm
... of Dual Use Goods and Technologies and Munitions List in full at http://www.jya.com/wa/watoc.htm) Echelon The European Parliament will commission a report into the workings of Echelon (Wired News 30 Sept 1998 www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/15295.html) In the US, a new report, 'Echelon: America's Spy in the Sky', detailing the history and workings of the NSA's global surveillance system, will be sent to members of Congress. Report at: http://www.freecongress.org/ctp/echelon.html 'Somebody's Listening', Duncan Campbell's New Statesman article of August 1988, the first to expose Echelon. http://jya.com/echelondc.htm ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 31 - 01 Dec 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue36/lob36-22.htm
69. Re: [Lobster #48 (Winter 2004)]
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 48) Winter 2004 Last| Contents| Next Issue 48 Re: Terry Hanstock Who was who? The newly published Oxford Dictionary of National Biography not only surveys the lives of the great and the good, but also includes accounts of individuals in the murkier fields of human endeavour. Over fifty spies are listed, for example, including historical figures such as 'Parliament Joan' (c1600-1655?) and 'Pickle the Spy' (c1725-1761). More recent practitioners range from minor characters, such as Greville Wynne and John Vassall, to major operators – Blunt, Burgess, Maclean and Philby. 'Spooks' are also covered, with almost ninety members ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 31 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-23.htm
... which SIS forms a part- is outmanoeuvred not only because it does not have the money to compete but also because, in losing control of the consultancies, it loses control of one of the levers of patronage, essential in the placing of and/or rewarding of foreign agents oninternational quangoes. Another interesting consultancy is Strategic Profile International (SPI) which has offices in Carlton Terrace Gardens. One of SPI's clients is the British-Libya Business Group. I apologise if neither SPI nor its clients have anything to do with espionage. (Joke I heard in Geneva: Q. Why are SIS Consultancies opening up in Carlton Terrace Gardens? A. Because they cannot all fit into Buckingham ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 30 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-01.htm
