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, […]

Historical Notes

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[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 […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

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[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 […]

Shameless!

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[PDF file]: […] Trotskyist doctrine that the workers should ‘take no part in the bosses’ war’. A paid official and organiser of the ILP from 1940, he was monitored by MI5 but no action was taken against him. Perhaps this was because he was declared unfit for war service on medical grounds and thus never had to […]

More on Hess

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[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> […]

Misleading Parliament – Appendices

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[PDF file]: […] what the Prime Minister had said to Mr Higgins – i.e. that I had only one ‘job description’. That was also made clear in a report by MI5 in 1975 (see attached extract). Some of the Govt Departments, such as the MoD, would have known that what Mrs Thatcher said in her letter to […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] There was a brief media orgasm at the end of the first week of April when it was announced that Prince William had been ‘working’ at MI6, MI5 and GCHQ respectively for the previous three weeks. The scale of excitement in the reporting ranged from the fairly sober BBC (‘The Duke of Cambridge has […]

Running Rings

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[PDF file]: […] allow power specialist apps such as speech recognition which can “spot” and translate particular voices from hours’ worth of intercept recordings. The deal will also allow GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 to conduct faster searches on each other’s databases.2 In the same report: Ciaran Martin, who stepped down as head of the UK’s National Cyber […]

David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS, by Gavin Mortimer

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[PDF file]: […] David Stirling would have been involved at some level. However, that would have been as nothing, in terms of breaking the NUM strike, as the interference from MI5 and GCHQ. For Hart’s claim re. ex-SAS protection, see page 18 of the programme’s transcript, available on the Undercover Policing Inquiry website at: . For details […]

Peer group pressure

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[PDF file]: Peer group pressure Colin Challen Whilst engaging in the topical parlour game ‘Who in the Labour Party is trying to shaft Jeremy Corbyn?’, my mind naturally turned to the master of dark arts, Lord (Peter) Mandelson. I took a look at his entry in the House of Lords Register of Members’ Interests, where I learnt […]

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