‘A Most Extraordinary Case’

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] duty that night in Hammersmith police station were involved with Quinn’s death; or, at least, knew what happened and covered up. Kennedy speculates that Special Branch and/or MI5 may be involved, and suspects that an interception warrant, established during his case, is being constantly renewed. He believes the intention is to damage his business […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

The death of Diana: an update

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] ‘CIA spies listened to Diana’s love secrets’, The Mirror 12 November 1998. Martin Bashir, the television reporter who interviewed Diana for Panorama, has also said that ‘… MI5 was carrying out “dirty tricks” on .’ (Sally Bedell Smith, Diana: the life of a troubled Princess, London: Aurum Press, 1999, p.281) The Daily Telegraph Home […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] gathered in March for his memorial service in St James’s, Piccadilly. In his address, the Rt Rev John Perry said Elwell’s 30-year service to his country in MI5 should properly remain a ‘closed book’. The nearest the congregation heard of the work of the senior secret policeman who smeared many on the left in […]

Web update

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] CIA reports and briefings); Declassified records (CIA, DIA, State dept, Nat Archives etc); Historical Espionage (eg Venona prog) and SIGINT (eg Bletchley, Enigma); Other historical docs ( MI5 and SOE); Ames Affair; debates and controversy (eg CIA as economic spy, budget of the IC, drug smuggling and the CIA). US Military Intelligence Sites http://www.loyola.edu/dept/politics/milintel.html […]

Children and the Official Secrets Act

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] as Colonel Oleg Gordiefsky – may carry additional and different burdens, as can those employed in private sector espionage. Note: one of the justifications Dame Stella Rimington gave for writing her autobiography when she stood down from MI5 was because ‘she wished to explain things’ to her daughters. See The Guardian (Weekend) 8 September 2007.

The corporate ex-spook business

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] of the private security sector could lead to other unravellings, such as a journey through Lloyds of London, private banking, the Department of Social Security, the police, MI5 and so forth. (5) Therefore, no regulation. This leaves the industry scratching around trying to find other means of proving its respectability. This matters because its […]

Hitler’s Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, New York University Press, 1998, £l7.95 Savitri Devi – real name Maximiani Portas; she was part Greek, part French – is an odd subject for a biography. This is someone of little importance to anyone other than extreme environmentalists and/or the ultra-right. Even the title is misleading. She never met Hitler (so cannot, […]

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