Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[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 […]

View from Bridge copo

Lobster Issue

[…] 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, […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] market nonsense in the country. This perspective on Angleton is missing from the discussion. The only Brit present is Christopher Andrew who, as the official historian of MI5, is entirely unable to deal rationally with these events. Nonetheless there is some fascinating material in the discussions of Angleton and his times. For this declassified […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] market nonsense in the country. This perspective on Angleton is missing from the discussion. The only Brit present is Christopher Andrew who, as the official historian of MI5, is entirely unable to deal rationally with these events. Nonetheless there is some fascinating material in the discussions of Angleton and his times. For this declassified […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] market nonsense in the country. This perspective on Angleton is missing from the discussion. The only Brit present is Christopher Andrew who, as the official historian of MI5, is entirely unable to deal rationally with these events. Nonetheless there is some fascinating material in the discussions of Angleton and his times. For this declassified […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] market nonsense in the country. This perspective on Angleton is missing from the discussion. The only Brit present is Christopher Andrew who, as the official historian of MI5, is entirely unable to deal rationally with these events. Nonetheless there is some fascinating material in the discussions of Angleton and his times. For this declassified […]

The Atlantic Semantic

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[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 […]

lob86View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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, […]

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

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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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