Misleading Parliament – Appendices

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[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

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[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 […]

Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] which draws heavily on “Smear”, “War Without Honour” etc. . . .The blurb on the back reads “It’s 2007 and, after more than thirty years service in MI5, David Nixon is retiring. The revolutionary left, the miners, the IRA have all been consigned to history and he is looking forward to quiet future of […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] which draws heavily on “Smear”, “War Without Honour” etc. . . .The blurb on the back reads “It’s 2007 and, after more than thirty years service in MI5, David Nixon is retiring. The revolutionary left, the miners, the IRA have all been consigned to history and he is looking forward to quiet future of […]

LSD-IRA? David Solomon, James Joseph McCann and Operation Julie

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] during his ownership, this seemed questionable. I have been informed by a source close to Donovan that he used to be regularly visited by a ‘lady from MI5’ – although this source, when asked to elaborate, declined to comment any further. A tantalising, and yet inconclusive, state of affairs. 5 – James McCann, David […]

Has a DNA test solved the Rudolf Hess doppelgänger mystery?

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[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 View from the Bridge

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[…] ‘Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)’. Would s/he need to put MI6 in brackets for a CIA audience? * Brian Crozier is described as a ‘UK Security Service ( MI5) agent’. Not according to Crozier’s memoir, Free Agent, he wasn’t; and Crozier wasn’t shy about boasting of his connections to the intelligence world. On the Web4 […]

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