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A spook, moi? One of the formative experiences of my youth – and we’re talking early 1960s here, beatnik days, when wearing a narrow leather tie was pretty hip – was going to the Mound in Edinburgh on Sunday nights. The Mound is like Hyde Park Corner in London, a place where local by-laws […]

[…] regard for the intelligence and security services. His disparaging critics on the right, however, were almost certainly correct in claiming that he had few sources within the spook community. His The Intelligence Game (I.B.Tauris, 1991) was an amusing and witty read, but showed few signs of clandestine sources. Rusbridger would have been amused to […]

Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Spooks (Lobster 22) for Cohen, Brooman-White, De Haan, see Lobster 9 and … Read more

Gecas and Special Branch A wonderful example of the reach and power of intelligence connections was provided in January. Why did the British state refuse to extradite Anton Gecas, the WW2 Lithuanian war criminal, to the Soviet Union in 1976? Turns out not only had Gecas worked for SIS at the end of WW2, he’d … Read more

[…] Intelligence HQ at Stormont Castle and reports from MI5’s top secret F3 section which is responsible for Irish affairs. (Sunday World 27th May 1984) …. Number one spook in Northern Ireland is Robert John Andrew (56) who replaced Philip Whitehead, whose connections with intelligence in Ireland go back to the days of Oliver Wright […]

Gone but not forgotten: a further update on Di Terry Hanstock This update follows on from my earlier articles in Lobster 38 and Lobster 39 Never was the old adage ‘She’s dead but she won’t lie down’ more apt than when applied to the late Diana, Princess of Wales. Although she died almost nine years … Read more

[…] the Prime Minister for admitting that she had read The Fourth Protocol twice. But she believes stuff like this, that was her appeal to the right-wing Tory/ spook network in the mid 70’s who ran her for leader of the Conservative Party. This ‘Labour left coup’ theme was recycled in the Sunday Express (October […]

[…] read as “So serious are the KGB, they even go after solid right-wingers like John Diamond “. May 1st 1988, Sunday Express another Massie re-write of a spook briefing which began, “The terrorist who hi-jacked a 24,000 ton passenger ship is to plan and command a massive revenge attack by the PLO on Israel […]