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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] afternoon in a pub on the outskirts of Belfast, followed a man into the toilets and propositioned him for sex.’ ‘Elements of the security services’? He means MI5. And why not identify the story and its author? The book’s subtitle, after all, is Spies and the Media. The story was ‘Pub incident that exposed […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] become ultra-infectious. Now Whitehall sources have revealed that Dominic Cummings’ evidence to the inquiry was redacted by the security services to remove criticism of the fact that MI5 and MI6 had falsely dismissed the ‘lab leak’ hypothesis as a ‘conspiracy theory’. This is very striking and very odd. Did we know that ‘security’ officials […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] become ultra-infectious. Now Whitehall sources have revealed that Dominic Cummings’ evidence to the inquiry was redacted by the security services to remove criticism of the fact that MI5 and MI6 had falsely dismissed the ‘lab leak’ hypothesis as a ‘conspiracy theory’. This is very striking and very odd. Did we know that ‘security’ officials […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] plotting to kill British Prime Minister, Theresa May. Initially, ‘Rahman made contact with an FBI agent posing as an IS official online, who introduced him to an MI5 role-player.’16 The jury took thirteen hours to reach their decision and, after he was convicted, ‘. . . a probation report read to the court by […]

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 […]

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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Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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 . […]

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