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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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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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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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