Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] Clearly we need something to keep an eye on putative ‘revolutionaries’ with access to Semtex — but do we need the present organisations? Do we really need MI5, for example? The CIA was originally going to be an open, intelligence-gathering agency. Would American economic interests have been better or worse served since 1948 had […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] peace and disarmament. Secret Kingdom http://www.cc.umist.ac.uk/sk/index.html ‘An initiation into the very real world of some of the more secretive government and military organisations in the UK.’ e.g. MI5, MI6, GCHQ, SAS, SBS, others. Basic stuff but all we have at the moment; and links e.g. to Mossad, Seals, Green Berets, Special Forces and counter-terrorism […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] Cabinet Office in October 2002, if you look up SIS Chief Sir Richard Dearlove in the Index, his column ref. is ….. ‘666’. If you look up MI5 Chief Sir Stephen Lander (new chief not in yet) in the Index, his column ref. is ….. ‘666’. If you look up the Security Service, Secret […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] the world, book reviews etc. No 2 has Freney Part 2; a longish piece on the ‘Bulgarian connection’; a reprint of one of the Guardian series on MI5; plus parapolitical material from Brazil and Venezuela, clippings etc. It is not unlike The Lobster – in intention, anyway, if somewhat more ambitious in scope. Intelligence […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] of information gained (on home ground) from its sources within FARL. (In British terms this would be as if MI6 had recruited Nesar Hindawi’s lawyer without informing MI5 or Special Branch.) While the DST was seeking the bombers who had killed 13 and wounded 250 in attacks designed to pressure the French government into […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] Chinese people and their Communist Party.’ (7) As the Czechs were the most trusted servants of the KGB/GRU in this country, it would seem highly likely that MI5 took an interest in the NCP. Curious, then, that the NCP’s funding from the Czechs did not become the centre of a new ‘Red Scare’ during […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] group ‘led by Tony Blair’s director of communications Alastair Campbell, head of homeland security David Omand, Downing Street foreign policy adviser Sir David Manning, and representatives of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ’.(7) The process of compiling the first dossier: ‘……resulted in fairly serious rows between Campbell, Omand and Stephen Lander, then head of M15. The […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] Pinewood are both owned by the Property Services Agency, Whitehall’s accommodation bureau. The CTT’s valuable services are available only to serving members of Her Majesty’s forces, including MI5 and MI6, and to non-national serving soldiers. They have trained Irish, Belgian and other continental ‘special forces’. CTT instructors/talent scouts include Lucien Ott, one of the […]
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) […]
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 […]
