People

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] Finally, the address of the Stallard Foundation was given as PO Box 500, Bedfordshire, South Africa. “PO Box 500′ used to be the UK contact point for MI5. What a curious coincidence… Apologies to Ms Cramen Proetta, the woman who witnessed the SAS shooting of the 3 IRA members on Gibraltar, for not including […]

Malcolm Kennedy: Application to European Court of Human Rights

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] Rights, the right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence, has been, and continues to be, violated. The agencies alleged to be involved were MI5, GCHQ and the Metropolitan Police. In January 2005 the Tribunal issued its final decision: it did not uphold Kennedy’s complaint or HRA claim, and under s67(8) […]

The final testimony of George Kennedy Young

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

The final testimony of George Kennedy Young Introduction When this was published we believed that it had been written by a close friend of his. Subsequently we learned that it had been written by Young himself. As far as we were able to judge, it is accurate. But this is by no means the whole […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] Smith makes the interesting point that in her memoir Rimington does not refer to her part in Smith’s conviction for espionage and asks: ‘How many Director-Generals of MI5 have been responsible for the conviction of a major Russian spy, who was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment at the Old Bailey?’ Smith thinks Rimington is […]

Sources: Spectre. CAQ, etc

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] cyberspace. Its website address is: http://www.sp.nl/spectre/ Notes from the Borderland Issue 2 of Larry O’Hara’s magazine appeared in late October. It includes: long essays by O’Hara on MI5 (after Shayler etc) and the hanky-panky in Leeds over the last few years between the BNP, AFA et al; Robin Whittaker on ‘A Method of Inducing […]

Eternal Vigilance? 50 years of the CIA

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] have come within the CIA’s sphere of influence. (It is worth remembering that in 1965, in its imperial pomp, the CIA came to London and proposed incorporating MI5 into the Agency’s London station….) The second is Helen Laville’s study of the CIA’s funding of one of the US women’s group, the Committee of Correspondence, […]

Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

[…] strategies could be effective only in the wider context of the incorporation of the working class into the political order.” Blowing the gaffers Paul Demetriou Leveller/Monochrome April 1985 Interview with unnamed MI5 officer: details tapping, break-ins, surveillance (some of them included in the Clippings Digest). This is an important companion piece to the Massiter revelations.

Tailpiece

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] of preparing this issue for the printer I was contacted by someone who claimed that he was the victim of a vast conspiracy – led, apparently by MI5 – which involved, inter alia, TV newsreaders watching and commenting on his life while he watched the news. He had gone to extraordinary lengths, and spent […]

Errors, corrections and updates

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] a long piece, over 5,000 words, on Newton’s political career, Bateman’s account (and the errors allegedly therein) and why he did not believe Newton had been an MI5 agent. Very interesting indeed. But he attached a condition: print intact, unedited, or not at all. So I sent it back. (I didn’t want to materially […]

Britain spinning in the Sibel Edmonds web

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] British media link was The Observer’s David Rose, who wrote an article for Vanity Fair three years ago.(6) Rose recently revealed that he had a relationship with MI5 and MI6 in the past,(7) and, given the proximity of British intelligence to the A. Q. Khan network, which forms the core proliferation group which Edmonds […]

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