See also: Part 1: British Fascism 1974-92 (Lobster 23) Part 2: British Fascism 1974-92 (II) (Lobster 24) Part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II) (Lobster 26) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) ‘Let a thousand initiatives bloom…’ While the piece in Lobster 24 was a (necessary) digression, treating of individual careers and various lurid allegations, […]
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[…] the taste and good sense to publish my Conspiracy Theories and The Rise of New Labour; and will publish a volume from Lobster contributor John Burnes on MI5 this year. So, yes, this is a shameless plug. However Nixon’s book is really rather good. Though neither a beginner’s guide nor a comprehensive summary of […]
[…] Africans, his is the first such memoir I have seen in which the covert world is shown to play a significant part in colonial life. Smith portrays MI5 working with the Colonial Office, bugging, tapping, intercepting mail — as well as producing inept anti-communist propaganda. Then as independence loomed, the Colonial Office/MI5 team were […]
[…] National Archives in November 2003. Included in it was a memorandum describing the security aspects of Fuchs’s background and arrest which was submitted by the Director-General of MI5, Sir Percy Sillitoe, to the Prime Minister, Clement Attlee. According to Goodman and Pincher ‘…..a careful examination reveals that MI5 deliberately misled the Prime Minister to […]
[…] in a half page summary of a short pamphlet by Labour Research into the League in 1968; thirdly in a comment that ‘This change of emphasis in MI5 must have cemented its relationship with the Economic league’, in which the assertion ‘must have’ hardly compensates for the lack of evidence; and fourthly in the […]
[…] started investigating the murder of his aunt, anti-nuclear activist Hilda Murrell, (11) who had incurred the unwelcome attention of Zeus Security and Sapphire Investigations (both subcontractors of MI5 and the nuclear police employing right-wing extremists and violent criminals). In my PhD thesis I also summarise the two key features of the coercive state, thus: […]
[…] countries. Editor/producer is Michael Quilligan, Ierland Informatie Centrum, Commelinstraat, 22/sous, 1093 TS, Amsterdam, Holland. Issue No 1 (March 1988) included some information on the new head of MI5, Peter Walker, which I don’t think has appeared elsewhere in the British media: “(he) served in Ireland in the early ’80s as second-in-command to Britain’s spy […]
[…] Ulster Political Research Group by John MacMichael, then head of the UFF, who used it in his power struggle against Andy Tyrie. That MacMichael might have had MI5 links was revealed when he himself recycled the UCA smear, this time against Colin Wallace, to Independent journalist David McKittrick, formerly of BBC Northern Ireland. (With […]
[…] Regent St, London W1R 5FA. I have it on reliable authority that in 1987 — when the Wallace and Holroyd story was at its first peak — MI5 approached IFF(UK) and suggested that they take legal action against Lobster using MI5 money. IFF refused. It should be said that IFF Director, Marc Gordon, denies […]
