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 […]

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 […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] on the extraordinary detail in Common Cause’s 1974 Bulletins on the Communist Party of Great Britain, suggesting that such detail could only have come from Special Branch/ MI5 sources. On reexamining some Common Cause Bulletins in the early 1970s we noticed this cryptic sentence which seems to first appear in Bulletin 127 (p. 124): […]

Some thoughts on The Russia Report

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] 14 government.15 Paragraph 61 appears to show that work to combat these kind of assassinations has been hampered by a recurrence of the traditional turf war between MI5 and MI6. (The same turf war that blighted intelligence operations in Northern Ireland for many years). ‘We welcomed this process, but questioned whether the Intelligence Community […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] February 1997 that ‘if he were Russian he too would be concerned by the possibility that NATO might move up to Russia’s borders’. Full subtitle is Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up. 3 One story in the Daily Mail at . 4 There is very good account […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] February 1997 that ‘if he were Russian he too would be concerned by the possibility that NATO might move up to Russia’s borders’. Full subtitle is Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up. 3 One story in the Daily Mail at . 4 There is very good account […]

The Man Who Played With Fire, and, The Man in the Brown Suit

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Played With Fire: Stieg Larsson’s Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin Jan Stocklassa, Seattle: Amazon Crossing, 2019, £13.15 (h/b) The Man in the Brown Suit: MI5, Edward VIII and an Irish Assassin James Parris (Harry Harmer) Cheltenham: The History Press, 2019, £14.00 (h/b) The Stocklassa book is about the killing of Olof […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] was a guest on his show). There are several pages of an ultimately inconclusive account about alleged abuse and cover ups at Knowl View Children’s Home and MI5 get name checked on p. 195 as having kept Smith out of trouble (‘but no one is prepared to go on record about it’). Danczuk mentions […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 59 The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind Anthony Frewin A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments H. P. Albarelli, Jr. Walterville, Oregon: TrineDay, 2009. xxvi + 826 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. At 2.25am on 28 November 1953 Dr Frank R Olson, a U.S. government bacteriologist, […]

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