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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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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 […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must *new* Stolen, not shared ‘ MI5 joins Instagram to bust martini-drinking stereotypes’ was a headline from BBC News online in late April.1 The head of the Security Service, Ken McCallum,2 was quoted from a piece he had written for the Telegraph, wherein he’d said: ‘We […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] on the matter at all, concluding his recollection of the episode with a cryptic joke about the Palace having been in the scandal-burying business for centuries and MI5 being a comparative beginner. Wright must have known at least part of the purpose of Blunt’s mission, because it was reported by the Daily Telegraph back […]

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] computer print-out listing the names and addresses of 1,500 CND activists around the country. The disclosure of Mr Bonnett’s role, coming after the statement by the former MI5 officer Cathy Massiter that MI5 broke its own rules to gather intelligence about CND, will increase anxiety about the activities of domestic security forces. Mr Bonnett, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] increasingly difficult to avoid in rural areas. Roughly speaking, we are where the anti-smoking lobby was in the mid-1950s with the idea that tobacco caused cancer.49 Bliar, MI5? Thanks to SC for pointing out that the extract from former MI5 officer Annie Machon’s book, Spies Lies and Whistleblowers, 46 This quotation is from . […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] Party has received significant funding from the Israel lobby in Britain, as did the Blair faction thirty years ago’. See also . 27 Full subtitle is Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up. 28 One story in the Daily Mail at . 29 There is very good account […]

Did the Mossad steal John le Carré’s cunning plan?

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] to John le Carré. 1 The Little Drummer Girl, (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1983). 2 Born David John Moore Cornwell, in Poole, Dorset, 19 October 1931, ex- MI5, ex-MI6. 3 Agent Running in the Field, (London: Viking, 2019). 4 5 The Little Drummer Girl, foreword. The autobiography of the English-born Mossad field officer Olivia […]

Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] to Asil Nadir’s London solicitors in November 2010 by Olivia Frank. Ms Frank, who spied in Germany for the Israeli secret service in her youth, says that MI5 arranged for her to be jailed at the high-security Cookham Wood prison in Kent where she was to conduct negotiations with Mrs Elizabeth Forsyth, Asil Nadir’s […]

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