Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] years insisted that the CPGB was involved in the work of the NKVD. More recently in 2005, from the right, Nigel West, in his neglected account of MI5 penetration of the CPGB, MASK, wrote of how the NKVD agent Arnold Deutsch recruited Klugmann, ‘codenamed MER…. as a talent-spotter, recommending other suitable candidates from his […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] almost perfect example of obfuscation, check out MI5’s favourite historian, Christopher Andrew, and a podcast produced by the National Archives detailing the releases in September 2019 of MI5 files related to (amongst other things) the Portland Spy Ring.21 The first point that stands out is how we are told that the Soviet deepcover controller […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: (a kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Big Cyril How do we interpret the Cyril Smith story to date? We know that allegations about Smith were given by MI5 officers to Colin Wallace in the British Army’s Information Policy Unit in Northern Ireland in 1974 for use in psy-ops projects. Yet we have recently learned […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] Demonstration Squad – which infiltrated every political/social group worth mentioning on the left in London – was not being run by the Special Branch but, rather, by MI5. This is not really surprising, though: who else would have the resources to run such a gigantic operation? If you are not following this story, there […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[PDF file]: […] secret. Tony Benn was the focus of the anxieties at parliamentary level. In this period he was being surveilled, bugged, wire-tapped, harassed and having his rubbish stolen. MI5 distributed briefings that he had ‘contacts in Czech intelligence’.(56) MI5’s pretext for this was the fact that Benn, while Minister of Technology, had been lunching with […]