The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] attacks ‘the relentless pressure of a security state’ and describes the government’s response to the terrorism threat as ‘mediaeval delusions’; (3) and when the former head of MI5 describes the response to 9/11 as ‘a huge overreaction’.(4) The minds of bankers Some years ago I was told the following story by someone who was […]

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 […]

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, […]

Princess Diana: the Hidden Evidence

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] (9) the most interesting one concerning Camilla Parker-Bowles’ car crash two months before Diana’s death. This, according to King and Beveridge, was a failed assassination attempt by MI5 intended to ‘clean up the constitutional mess’ caused by the marital and extramarital predicament in which the Prince of Wales found himself’, whilst at the same […]

Kincora: abuse and the British state

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in its present form to investigate issues relating to the Army or MI5.’3 It is important to note that Sir Anthony Hart was expressing his concerns about MI5 publicly and in the presence of the press. That was an unusual step for a former High Court Judge to take, but it is now suspected […]

Spookaroonie!

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: Inside British Intelligence 100 years of MI5 and MI6 Gordon Thomas London: JR books, 2009, £20 Spooks The Unofficial History of MI5 Thomas Hennessy and Claire Thomas Stroud (Glos.): Amberley, 2009, £30 Robin Ramsay I haven’t properly read either of these books and cannot really review them. However, there are some things I can […]

The Defence of the Realm

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Contents Lobster 58 The Defence of the Realm The Authorised History of MI5 Christopher Andrew Page 134 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 London: Allen Lane, 2009, £30 Covering the same area as the Hennessy/Thomas book but with access to more recent MI5 documents, Andrew does at least refer to the dissenters named in the preceding […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[PDF file]: […] later Neville Chamberlain and other supporters of the appeasement policy secretly bought and ran the weekly newspaper Truth. This was largely an operation run by the former MI5 officer and éminence grise of the time, Sir Joseph Ball. He used the official government information machine to push the Chamberlain line, formed the National Publicity […]

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