The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] himself (contrary to what would later appear about him in his obituaries) appeared modest, not particularly bitter, and intelligent. The programme did not mention his claims about MI5, the CIA et al in detail but did remind viewers that the specific reason for his demise was being deemed responsible for the broadcasting of George […]

A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is Sillars’ suspicion that when he formed the SLP in 1976 ‘members of groups like the IMG , while genuine in their views, were useful idiots for MI5 and Special Branch. Numerous such groups have demonstrated time and again that they will ultimately damage or destroy any organisation to which they attach themselves. After […]

Suddenly in September?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] what happened in the past 20 years of preemptive wars in West Asia and the Middle East was reflected in the contribution of Lady Manningham-Buller, the former MI5 deputy chief. She told the Lords that when she and the head of MI6 met the Bush team in Washington shortly after 9/11, ‘the decision was […]

John Stonehouse book reviews

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: . . . and then two come along JOHN STONEHOUSE, MY FATHER The True Story of the Runaway MP Julia Stonehouse London: Icon, 2021, £16.99, h/b Stonehouse Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy Julian Hayes London: Robinson, 2021, £16.99, h/b Robin Ramsay Well here’s a thing: two books, using much of the same material – centrally a […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] ‘Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)’. Would s/he need to put MI6 in brackets for a CIA audience? * Brian Crozier is described as a ‘UK Security Service ( MI5) agent’. Not according to Crozier’s memoir, Free Agent, he wasn’t; and Crozier wasn’t shy about boasting of his connections to the intelligence world. On the Web […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] project. They too had their problems. A freelance producer cracked under political pressure and had to be replaced by the Official Historian of the Security Service ( MI5). 5 Dr Matthias Uhl of the Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau unveiled in 20116 a chilling document found in the State Archive of the Russian Federation. For […]

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