The view from the bridge

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[…] hold back terror intelligence from Britain”’ in the Mail, 5 April 2012. David Rose describes the briefing process using this argument within Whitehall in ‘Furtive briefings by MI5 and the Government’s BIG LIE over secret justice’ in the Mail, 17 March 2012: ‘But the mere assertion, whispered so silkily by the plausible Mr Evans, […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was ‘groomed’ by the KGB during the mid-1980s. When he was vetted to become special adviser to Norman Lamont in the Treasury in 1990, Cameron supposedly told MI5 about the incident.4 4 Speaking to students at the University of Moscow in 2011, Mr Cameron said: 42 Sir Maurice was a Parliamentary Counsel, one of […]

Secret History: Writing the Rise of Britain’s Intelligence Services by Simon Ball

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of history, a Bletchley Park version of history, a Naval Intelligence version of history, a JIC version off history, an SOE version of history, and, finally, an MI5 vision of history. Although the strands were distinct, however, the process of creating them was intertwined. The dominant versions also left out a great deal. In […]

LBJ: the mastermind of JFK’s assassination by Phillip F. Nelson

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[…] contacts, plus Tippit a few times. Otherwise I can’t say who ran the safe house.’ In this paragraph he offers the Defence Industrial Security Command (DISC) and MI5 Division 5, who were in a version of the assassination story circulating in the 1970s called The Torbitt Memorandum (which originated in the cast of characters […]

When the Lights Went Out, and, Strange Days Indeed

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[…] the Seventies Andy Beckett London: Faber and Faber, 2009, £20.00 7 See Brian Crozier, Free Agent (London: HarperCollins,1993) pp. 131-133. 8 Andrew writes on p. 638 that MI5 was ‘becoming increasingly worried about…..Unison.’ Page 142 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Strange Days Indeed Francis Wheen London: Fourth Estate, 2009, £18.99 Decadeitis, the division of history […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Murrell’s nephew? Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd are discussed. ‘Holroyd was apparently confined to a mental hospital after he made public the turf war that raged between MI5 and MI6 over who ran operations in Northern Ireland’. (p. 23) 2 ‘Apparently’? Fred was briefly sent to the Army mental hospital at Netley while he […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was tracked down in 1945 and brought back to Britain from Germany by Anthony Blunt and Owen Morshead, the Royal Family librarian.47 Given Blunt’s high rank in MI5 and his connections to the Palace, it is likely that the Soviets acquired copies of the letters. They would surely have seen in them great potential […]

The View from the Bridge

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The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay Even Wikipedia….. In August much of the major media, including the BBC, ran a story about the late Cedric Belfrage, claiming he was a Soviet spy, ‘the sixth man’. Christopher Andrew was among those prominently quoted supporting this thesis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of […]

Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the racism of empire’ from an early age. The report Morton produced was kept a close secret and forty years later, when Miller requested a copy from MI5, his request was acknowledged and then ignored. Miller goes on: ‘The Foreign Office had a file called “Sri Lanka Security: Assessment 1978”. That file was destroyed […]

More on Hess

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] opening with an account of their dealings with Sir Richard. Conspiracy, Calamity and Cover-up arrives 24 years after Harris first published an explanation8 of how in 1940 MI5 intercepted a letter from the German diplomat Albrecht Haushofer, sent via neutral Portugal to Air Reviews in Lobster 73 at or and Lobster 79 at https://tinyurl.com/28fyu734> […]

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