Colin Wallace and the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] following paragraphs are from chapter 3 of that report.6 para 391 We are satisfied that it was not until 1980 that the RUC Special Branch, MI5, the SIS and Army Intelligence became aware that McGrath had been sexually abusing residents at Kincora, and they learnt of that when it became the 4 . One-time […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] outfit, Veruscript, whose founders are Russian.1 9 Is it a front for Russian intelligence? Not that anyone can demonstrate; but that didn’t prevent people – including former SIS chief Richard Dearlove – resigning from the forum because… well, just in case, I suppose.2 0 And Professor Andrew resigned from the board of the publishing […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] by a body-double during her brief reappearance on the sidewalk, as she appeared to be behaving in a totally normal way. The traditional arsenal of amateur photoanaly sis was unleashed, with before-and-after comparisons of Mrs Clinton’s fingers, gait, hair, weight and ears all being relied upon to support this theory of a stand-in.2 The […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 1 – the early years

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[PDF file]: […] that were, at the very least, covertly approved by the government of the United Kingdom. Stephen Dorril’s book on MI6 has a chapter that details how both SIS and GCHQ provided what was, at times, significantly more than discrete assistance.3 The entire cadre of Stirling’s assistant commanders in Watchguard appear to have been current […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Telegraph Jeremy Warner commented: ‘Over the last ten years, the has been pretty much wrong about everything of substance. It failed to see the financial cri sis coming, and it failed to anticipate the eurozone debt crisis, having essentially become a cheerleader for integrationist ambitions of monetary union. It then proceeded to become […]

Newsinger Uproar

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[…] the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment and persecution of the likes of Peter Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Agnes ‘ Sis’ Cunningham and others. It showed how the US state went after the folk music lefties as part of its campaign against the Communist Party (CP). At […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] having some members of the Security Services in its ranks. The short answer is that the story was probably true and that it would be surprising if SIS (or whoever) had not put some of their people into the Party in order to monitor and report back. Although I cannot prove it, I am […]

Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen

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[PDF file]: […] Blood Year, an assessment of what Western strategy has achieved. The picture is pretty grim: ‘In the northern summer of 2014, in less than 100 days, I SIS launched its blitzkrieg in Iraq, Libya’s government collapsed, civil war engulfed Yemen, a sometime small-town Iraqi preacher named Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared himself caliph, the latest […]

A brief introduction to British W.W.II stay behind networks

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[PDF file]: ‘We’re doomed!’ A brief introduction to British W.W.II stay behind networks Nick Must The broadcasting by the BBC during the Christmas period 2015 of a comedy drama based around the creation of the Dad’s Army television series, reminded me of how the Home Guard were used during World War II as the cover for a […]

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