KO-ing the Kennedys: The Kennedys and State Secrets

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] Chamberlain, the Prime Minister. It is not clear that he did so. However, a little while later, in an unrelated episode, Wolkoff was asked by an agent MI5 had planted in the Right Club if she would send a message (the text of which had been drafted by MI5) to Germany by giving it […]

Colin Wallace – an assessment

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] which anyone not asleep at the wheel has taken for granted for years; some fragments on the MI5-MOD-Tory Party operations against CND; and one (conveniently dead) alleged MI5 agent, Harry Newton. Yet no journalist to my knowledge has ever got paranoid about her, seriously wondered if she was part of some wider operation. (I […]

Public Servant, Secret Agent: The Elusive Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] biography of James Callaghan that Mrs Thatcher, while leader of the Opposition, in 1977 had twice gone to to see Robert Armstrong, then Home Office liaison with MI5, to put the beliefs of her and those around her that Harold Wilson and assorted other people in the Labour Party and trade union leadership were […]

Enemies of the State

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] Police and the Parachute Regiment. In 1980 Murray became increasingly involved in investigating the activities of journalists, TV producers, MPs and former military officers. At that point MI5 expressed an interest in his range of contacts and invited him to become an asset. But after just two years he became disillusioned and resigned from […]

Web Update

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] and its effects on a range of activities: telecommunications, defence: Army, Navy, DoD, public services, financial and business, etc Intelligence David Shayler http://www.shayler.com/ Official website of former MI5 officer David Shayler and his allegations concerning MI5 malpractice; Shayler’s first statement from prison; his letters to MI5 chief Stephen Lander and to the Guardian; how […]

Searchlight again

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] a web of intelligence intrigue, in league with British intelligence, Mossad and probably the Salvation Army, has found his way into the arms of the very same MI5 he is always going on about. Searchlight first ran into this now very paranoid “researcher” back in 1988. Since then he has found his way into […]

Notes from the Underground, part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II)

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] Bulletin, January 1986, p. 3. Yorkshire Post, 18 February 1986. Organisers Bulletin, January 1986, p. 3. On the subject of photographs, a better way of Special Branch/ MI5 ascertaining just exactly what every key NF activist (as opposed to paper member) looked like could hardly have been devised. It really speaks of extraordinary incompetence […]

Gordon Winter: Inside BOSS and After

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] in Curzon Street’s Leconsfield House failed to give him the pension they promised, the 20-year pension he had earned with the Admiralty but lost when he joined MI5. If he had been one of those scores of titled gentlemen who work for British Intelligence, whether on staff or freelance, you can be sure he […]

From Bevan to Blair: 50 years reporting from the political front line

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] read yet another account of post-war British politics. I got it because in Lobster 39 (p. 21) I noted comments made by Mrs Thatcher to Robert Armstrong, MI5 liaison at the Home Office, in the mid 1970s on her ‘misgivings’ about the presence of Goodman in the Labour government. There was an MI5 file […]

Kincoragate: parapolitics

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] system …. he suffered dismissal, later changed to resignation, because he spoke out against the methods being used by intelligence staff.” Holroyd says Wallace was ‘neutralised’ by MI5 because of what he knew. Did that go as far as fitting him for murder? Wallace’s precise position in Northern Ireland still isn’t clear. It was […]

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