[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] noting on p. 196 in his long list of outstanding items in the case: ‘From my experience as a Naval Intelligence officer with a top security clearance, MI5 would have discovered I knew there were things to hide over the Falklands War which were potentially more serious than the torpedoing of the General Belgrano.’ […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] of spies and informers, some in the heart of the mining communities.19 These informers (whose identities would be at risk of exposure in an Inquiry) reported to MI5, Special Branch and the Police. They gathered information about the strikers’ plans and helped the authorities to frustrate their picketing operations. All this would doubtless be […]
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 […]
[PDF file]: […] first person to promote the suicide suggestion, said his death was ‘ . . . investigated by the local police, the county police, Scotland Yard, Special Branch, MI5; MI6 had a man present and the CIA had a man present because the Americans were interested in this’. Goslett continues: ‘It is unclear how Mangold […]
