Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] of books. Years later he discovered that the magazine was part of the U.S.’s psy-war activities in India. In 1975 he was invited to lunch by an MI5 officer to be informed that Mountbatten was unreliable and had on his staff a homosexual who was a commie. Nothing got reported.3 The great thing about […]

Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] of books. Years later he discovered that the magazine was part of the U.S.’s psy-war activities in India. In 1975 he was invited to lunch by an MI5 officer to be informed that Mountbatten was unreliable and had on his staff a homosexual who was a commie. Nothing got reported.3 The great thing about […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

Lobster Issue

[…] in Washington D.C. with his good friend Kim Philby, the British SIS liaison with the American intelligence agencies, and Philby knew that Maclean had become suspect and MI5 was closing in on him. Because of his close association with Burgess, Philby became the primary, if not only suspect as the ‘Third Man’. All three […]

View from

Lobster Issue

[…] This includes allegations about the late Lord Mountbatten using at least one of the boys in Kincora. On past performance, Moore will have been under surveillance by MI5 and the British state will have been aware of the book’s contents. Wallace is a witness to MI5’s use of Kincora in the 1970s and is […]

View from

Lobster Issue

[…] This includes allegations about the late Lord Mountbatten using at least one of the boys in Kincora. On past performance, Moore will have been under surveillance by MI5 and the British state will have been aware of the book’s contents. Wallace is a witness to MI5’s use of Kincora in the 1970s and is […]

View from

Lobster Issue

[…] This includes allegations about the late Lord Mountbatten using at least one of the boys in Kincora. On past performance, Moore will have been under surveillance by MI5 and the British state will have been aware of the book’s contents. Wallace is a witness to MI5’s use of Kincora in the 1970s and is […]

Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy by Tim Milne

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] part of an anti-Nazi resistance network which included coreligionists and they handed over to the British a list which identified many colleagues. After the war, officers from MI5 travelled to Germany to try to find these people, but failed to locate one of them. Ben Macintyre provides an account of this episode based on […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

Lobster Issue

[…] in Washington D.C. with his good friend Kim Philby, the British SIS liaison with the American intelligence agencies, and Philby knew that Maclean had become suspect and MI5 was closing in on him. Because of his close association with Burgess, Philby became the primary, if not only suspect as the ‘Third Man’. All three […]

lob61-parish-notes

Lobster Issue

[…] things have come together. Firstly, it no longer seems as important. Other people are doing this, which they weren’t in the mid 1980s. (I just googled ‘ MI5’ and got 2.8 million hits.) Secondly, when Lobster began in 1983 I had just joined the Labour Party, and the events of the 1960s and 70s, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] years later suggest the incident was a deliberate sting on the part of the Colombian secret services.’24 Trump Well, it’s getting complicated, isn’t it? I saw former MI5 officer, whistle-blower and privacy campaigner Annie Machon speaking just after Donald Trump was sworn in. She was very good, confident and fluent until she was asked […]

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