Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: Andrew Rosthorn Olivia Jayne Frank, alias Ruth Mayer, Ruth Alison Peacock, Rebekah Stern, Joanne Olivia Gold and Olivia Jayne Hart, a transgender spy for the Mossad, MI5 and MI6, died of pneumonia and kidney failure in the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital on September 11, 2023, 67 years after her birth at Crumpsall Hospital in Manchester. […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: Andrew Rosthorn Olivia Jayne Frank, alias Ruth Mayer, Ruth Alison Peacock, Rebekah Stern, Joanne Olivia Gold and Olivia Jayne Hart, a transgender spy for the Mossad, MI5 and MI6, died of pneumonia and kidney failure in the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital on September 11, 2023, 67 years after her birth at Crumpsall Hospital in Manchester. […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

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 […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] he was happy with that and added: ‘When we hear of undercover Police having long-term relationships with animal rights activists (and even Harold Wilson being bugged by MI5 lest he was a Soviet mole) it is quite clear that the State reserves the right to monitor pressure groups or political parties. One could even […]

Romeo Spy by John Alexander Symonds

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Nonetheless, this is very interesting and probably important. There are a lot of striking leads in here, none of which are good news for the police or MI5; so it’s not too surprising that he has been largely blanked by the major media, even though they are fascinated by spies and Symonds is the […]

Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] John Hermon, it was decided that there should be a review of how intelligence was gathered and used in Northern Ireland. They placed this task with senior MI5 officer Patrick Walker. As far as the public and media were concerned, the most obvious feature of the recommendations made by Walker and Oldfield was the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] taste – many of whom are ‘domestic extremists’ by the criteria used by the Metropolitan Police in recent years. With this in mind is the new gay-friendly MI5 going to reconstitute F branch (the watchers of subversives), which it apparently disbanded to concentrate on jihadis? The innocents Because it is such a depressing tale […]

The Atlantic Semantic

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] lieutenant’s woman,’ The Times, 19 November 1981. 12 ‘Social Democratic Alliance statement,’ The Times, 29 September 1975. 13 Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril, Lobster 11 (1986), ‘Wilson, MI5 and the Rise of Thatcher: Covert Operations in British Politics 19741978,’ appendix 6: ‘Examples of political psy ops targets 1973/4 – non Army origin’. 14 ‘New […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] felt the need to spy on others, and on their own people, they have tried to keep the very fact of their doing so secret – SIS, MI5 and GCHQ didn’t officially exist until 1989. By contrast, the CIA was set up by Congress, and has always been – formally at least – accountable […]

lob86View from Bridge

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[…] military/ royal family) figures – with many of the accusations being that children were physically and sexually abused. And that list does include Clockwork Orange – the MI5 operation to smear British politicians, which was exposed by Colin Wallace. But there is a downside: for such an extraordinary story, the author – Irish barrister, […]

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