The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] no evidence to the contrary, the silence from the UK government was ominous. In this context we should note the diary entries of Guy Liddell, a senior MI5 officer.61 He notes on 9 June 1941 that the Poles believed the UK was about to abandon them and ‘the Poles imagine that Hess may be […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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 […]

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 […]

The Clandestine Caucus: a minor update

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] group named the Anti-Communist (Home) Committee was established, comprising representatives from the Foreign Office, Treasury, Home Office, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Labour, and Security Service ( MI5). Chaired by cabinet secretary Norman Brook, the committee’s objective was ‘to keep communist activities in this country under review and to recommend what counter-action could properly […]

Kicora review

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Kincora: Britain’s Shame Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up Chris Moore Newbridge, Ireland; Merrion Press, 2025; p/b €19.99, (£15.00 approx.)1 Robin Ramsay Kincora is one of the great scandals of post-World War 2 British history. Exposure of the actions of a group of pedophiles has been suppressed […]

Kicora review

Lobster Issue

Kincora: Britain’s Shame Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up Chris Moore Newbridge, Ireland; Merrion Press, 2025; p/b €19.99, (£15.00 approx.)1 Robin Ramsay Kincora is one of the great scandals of post-World War 2 British history. The actions of a group of pedophiles has been suppressed for nearly […]

Colin Wallace and the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] a strange organisation called Tara.2 The Kincora abuse has been an acutely embarrassing issue for the British state because elements of its secret arms in Northern Ireland, MI5 and the RUC Special Branch, were aware of the abuse of the inmates but chose to ignore it because of MI5’s interest in McGrath. Among the […]

The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Media in Britain, the strongest criticisms are aimed at politicians and the bureaucratic mismanagement at the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Journalistic responsibility gets off lightly. Strikingly, neither MI5, MI6 nor GCHQ are portrayed as bad in toto. Sometimes the leaders of the intelligence services get too close to politicians, sometimes politicians are simply not […]

Secrecy in Britain

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] the security services accountable as totally lacking in substance, Ministers and the Government have total unaccountable power in this area. This has meant that the security services MI5, MI6 and GCHQ have effectively been exempt from the provisions of the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Acts which were brought in the 1980s and […]

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