The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] 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, […]

Maggie’s guilty secret

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] Meese, Reagan’s foreign affairs advisor, and sworn to secrecy. The British cabinet set up a secret sub-committee to oversee the project, with both the Home Office ( MI5) and the FCO (MI6) ordered to support the illegal exports. Michael Heseltine, Geoffrey Howe, Willie Whitelaw, Francis Pym and PM Thatcher all gave the secret project […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] 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 in 1971, when Miller infiltrated Tara, an […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] have the seismic impact they hoped for. But Bower evidently considers the story as still being of use. Harold Wilson, we are told, had been warned by MI5 that ‘a raft of British trade union leaders were being paid by Moscow to advance communism in Britain’. One of the most important of these Russian […]

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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] a separate investigation of his was being blocked by Ivan Bakonov, chief of Ukraine’s internal security service, the SBU (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrainy, roughly analogous to the UK’s MI5). Ryaboshapka had been looking into the long-running PrivatBank scandal, which had shocked Ukraine when it came to light in 2016. The private-sector bank, which held the […]

Signs of the times

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Trade Unions; and that committee was a front for the CPGB.13 Moscow gold In the conclusion of my essay The Clandestine Caucus14 I discussed the fact that MI5 chose to allow the Soviets to fund the Communist Party of Great Britain. They had known about the money – literally bags of used notes from […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] a separate investigation of his was being blocked by Ivan Bakonov, chief of Ukraine’s internal security service, the SBU (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrainy, roughly analogous to the UK’s MI5). Ryaboshapka had been looking into the long-running PrivatBank scandal, which had shocked Ukraine when it came to light in 2016. The private-sector bank, which held the […]

Sir John Sawer’s speech and some aspects of SIS PR

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] say, Hollywood movie moguls. Ostensibly part of a chieftain rolling programme – Sir John’s speech followed those given by the director of GCHQ and directors general of MI5 – the statement was the finale to an impressive three pronged SIS PR campaign. In addition to Sir John’s talk, this comprised the September launches of […]

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