View from Lob 73

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[…] volunteer, not an intelligence officer – in Northern Ireland, James Miller. Miller gave evidence to the Saville Inquiry but was was identified only as ‘Observer B’. His MI5 handler ‘Julian’ described him as ‘perfectly reliable and truthful’ and ‘an extremely brave fellow’. Julian also reported in that 15 also that Cunningham and Montgomery were […]

Undercover killers at the BBC

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] FBI’ for fighting domestic crime by 3 4 ‘Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair’, Lobster 34 (Winter 1998). 2 using redundant Cold War MI5 spooks and electronic surveillance by GCHQ. The outcome of ‘intelligence-led policing’ by undercover spies and police ghost squads was a three-way ‘investigative train crash’ in Manchester, […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

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[…] would not let explanations lie…’. Who is Peter Green? Does he mean Rob Green, Hilda Murrell’s nephew? Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd are discussed. ‘Holroyd after he MI5 and Ireland’. was apparently confined to a mental hospital made public the turf war that raged between MI6 over who ran operations in Northern (p. 23) […]

Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments by Ulf Schmidt

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: What’s your poison? Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments Ulf Schmidt Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, £25, h/b Schmidt is Professor of Modern History at the University of Kent. He has been Wellcome Trust Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, amongst other positions. His research interests, so we are […]

Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] was actually involved in editing and contributing to its short-lived journal, Socialist Alternative.2 It seems safe to assume that this would have made him of interest to MI5. His subsequent involvement with the Haldane Society and the journal Socialist Lawyer would have likely sustained this interest, along with his impressive involvement in such legal […]

Lobster review: Red Pepper magazine, #85, July 2001

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A  review of Lobster in Red Pepper magazine, #85, July 2001

[PDF file]: […] that many articles over the years dwell in depth on attacks made on Lobster (in particular, by Searchlight, which Lobster has consistently criticised as working closely with MI5). However, the magazine’s autobiographical asides are very absorbing, and there are plenty of other things to read if you want to steer clear of this. The […]

Has a DNA test solved the Rudolf Hess doppelgänger mystery?

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] the minute “Langer’s Lines” of the skin when held directly over the entrance and exit sites.’ 7 When Dr Christopher Andrew, author of the authorised history of MI5, presented the Timewatch report 8 dismissing the doppelgänger theory, the retired MI6 officer Charles Fraser-Smith, the original for Ian Fleming’s ‘Q’, came forward to insist that […]

The meaning of subservience to America

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] about protecting the integrity of your justiciary because the appeal papers prove Iran was involved….. I knew this information back then so you can rest assured both MI5 and MI6 knew.’ 6 Don’t you just love Baer’s notion that freeing al-Megrahi was about ‘protecting the integrity of judiciary’? As if it had any left!7 […]

Lobster review: Direct Action Issue #19 Summer 2001

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A review of Lobster in Direct Action Issue #19 Summer 2001

[PDF file]: […] — maybe due to aspirations towards the academic learned journal. While Lobster is undoubtedly a handy periodical, the main emphasis is on the murkey doings of governments, MI5 and other secret services, etc. All very revealing and worth it, just for the pub talk’ potential. However, the real star turn out now is the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] in 1997 and then introduced its partial ban on fox-hunting. Any link between the two events was denied, of course. See . 73 or 74 23 ‘Revealed: MI5 and MI6 are training senior spies from Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt’ ‘”Paralysing a nation”: Evidence emerges of Royal Navy’s complicity in Saudiled sea blockade of […]

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