Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] less grand than those O’Donnell arranged between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats: less opulent surroundings, fewer civil servants, no one from the Palace, the head of MI5 not around to give urgent advice. It all felt a bit perfunctory and was not helped by Labour failing to put a clear deal to the […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] Trade Unions; and that committee was a front for the CPGB.13 Moscow gold In the conclusion of my essay The Clandestine Caucus14 I discussed the fact that MI5 chose to allow the Soviets to fund the Communist Party of Great Britain. They had known about the money – literally bags of used notes from […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] noting on p. 196 in his long list of outstanding items in the case: ‘From my experience as a Naval Intelligence officer with a top security clearance, MI5 would have discovered I knew there were things to hide over the Falklands War which were potentially more serious than the torpedoing of the General Belgrano.’ […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] Trotskyist doctrine that the workers should ‘take no part in the bosses’ war’. A paid official and organiser of the ILP from 1940, he was monitored by MI5 but no action was taken against him. Perhaps this was because he was declared unfit for war service on medical grounds and thus never had to […]