Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] by which the citizen judges its rivals, the reputation collapses.(6)Spook reputation management is of consequence if retention/recruitment of honourable and skilled personnel is an objective.(7) In this SIS appears to have fallen at the first hurdle, committing the niche employer’s cardinal PR error of allowing leadership admission/justification for the latest wrongdoing (torture/rendition), to tarnish […]
Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
[…] was sustained by the politicians, and not by the Civil Service – what he calls ‘the permanent government’ – and certainly not by the secret Civil Service, SIS (MI6). For Verrier’s second thesis, the one I guess he really cares about, is that SIS got it right. There it is, out front, in the […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] to the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) which was published in September 2003.(18) Under the heading ‘The Iraqi in the Street’, and sticking to all outdated stereotypes, SIS writes, ‘Are you a member of one of Saddam’s favourite tribes? Yes? Then join the Ba’th Party.’ (19) Actually, under Saddam Hussein (February 2003), ‘the Iraqi […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] interest on reading the book version. In one section pp.48-49 (which also appeared in the Sunday Times on 4 February) Tomlinson describes how his intake of new SIS recruits were briefed by the then SIS chief McColl. One of the new recruits put the obvious question: ‘ “Sir, why do we have an intelligence […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] faces at NATO where the official NATO Website carried for two months an English translation of an article, which had originally appeared in Croatia, which identified four SIS officers. (1) This was the comic climax of a series of stories about SIS’s activities in the states of the former Yugoslavia.(2) The exposure of SIS’s […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] of the need to explore some kind of armistice with Germany, knew Prytz, probably as a result of his activities on behalf of Stewart Menzies, Chief of SIS. As is well known the talks were stopped by Churchill who threatened to lock up both Halifax and Butler. De Courcy himself had to lie low […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: The SIS and London-based foreign dissidents: some patterns of espionage Corinne Souza Over forty years separates the arrival of the Iraqi community in London and today’s Russian one. Some of the Iraqis making their home in the UK in the 1970s had substantial wealth, others were averagely well-to-do, and some had little more than […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
Michael Smith Gollancz, London,1996, £20 This is a curious and rather pointless book. In short chapters Smith attempts potted histories of MI5, SIS, signals and military intelligence. These are quite well done, but covering half a century in 20 pages, say, the chapters are barely more than sketches. (The Information Research Department gets a […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] in racial and other dominance, but leaves them unable to cope in a market-place where: a) the ‘prestige’ (for want of another word) of former CIA or SIS employment may be a hindrance rather than a help; b) they have to compete with sophisticated others, including diasporas who have years of pooled knowledge of […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] though there is nothing specific in Ashdown’s known career which says ‘intelligence’, the career move from Special Boat Squadron to Foreign Office is pretty obvious.(1) The alleged SIS affiliation seems to have stuck, however. The doyen of British political profile writers, Andrew Roth, wrote in the Guardian (19 March 2001), sixteen years after Dorril, […]
