View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the same page (p. 239): The UK network was thus operated by Britain’s intelligence services and selected members of the armed forces. In a very real sense MI5 operated a civil army with trained operatives, and infiltrated them into whichever left-wing group they saw fit. Certain elements of the criminal world were also part […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] is that the formation of the Civil Contingencies Cadre (CCC) at the centre of those events was the product of a conspiracy theory, propagated by members of MI5 among others – that there was a serious risk from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to what, for want of a better cliché, we […]

View from Bridge 86 copy

Lobster Issue

[…] is that the formation of the Civil Contingencies Cadre (CCC) at the centre of those events was the product of a conspiracy theory, propagated by members of MI5 among others – that there was a serious risk from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to what, for want of a better cliché, we […]

The MOSSAD Spy by Olivia Frank

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] Robin Ramsay Robin Ramsay This is what £50,000 in notes looks like. They were left in the boot of Olivia Frank’s car – by someone apparently from MI5 – in the hope that the moolah would persuade her not publish this book. The offer was declined: the money has been stashed, not spent, and […]

ViewfromtheBridge

Lobster Issue

[…] is that the formation of the Civil Contingencies Cadre (CCC) at the centre of those events was the product of a conspiracy theory, propagated by members of MI5 among others – that there was a serious risk from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to what, for want of a better cliché, we […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the same page (p. 239): The UK network was thus operated by Britain’s intelligence services and selected members of the armed forces. In a very real sense MI5 operated a civil army with trained operatives, and infiltrated them into whichever left-wing group they saw fit. Certain elements of the criminal world were also part […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the same page (p. 239): The UK network was thus operated by Britain’s intelligence services and selected members of the armed forces. In a very real sense MI5 operated a civil army with trained operatives, and infiltrated them into whichever left-wing group they saw fit. Certain elements of the criminal world were also part […]

Her Majesty’s secret servants

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] almost a thousand years.1 Neither proposition has ever been better illustrated than by this country’s foreign policy towards Libya in the past 20 years or so. Former MI5 officer David Shayler reported that in 1996 MI6 had paid £100,000 to a Libyan Islamist group for the assassination of Colonel Gadaffi; and, although denied by […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] Dame Stella Rimington’.2 It would appear that the NA holds nothing of significance from her time as a spook. As an example, the publicly available files on MI5 monitoring of the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) only extends as far as February of 1934.3 This is laughable because, undeniably, this continued well 1 […]

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