The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘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 Web […]

The British state’s failed attempt to kill off the Freedom of Information Act

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] See or 16 See note 13. 17 See note 13. this hydra’s tail. Unlike the CIA, the security and intelligence agencies of the UK (better known as MI5 and MI6 respectively) are protected by Britain’s FOI Act with an all-encompassing clause 23(1) concerning ‘Information supplied by, or relating to, bodies dealing with security matters’, […]

Garrick part one trial

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[…] dubious at the time. The staff of the Myrotvorets website evidently share a dark sense of humour, because the administrators use online noms-de-plume such as ‘Nato’, ‘ MI5’, and ‘NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA […]

Suddenly in September?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] what happened in the past 20 years of preemptive wars in West Asia and the Middle East was reflected in the contribution of Lady Manningham-Buller, the former MI5 deputy chief. She told the Lords that when she and the head of MI6 met the Bush team in Washington shortly after 9/11, ‘the decision was […]

undercover cops book copy

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[…] biggest political scandals in our domestic politics since the end of WW2. In a different society, the discovery that British policemen and women, managed and directed by MI5, had infiltrated and spied upon virtually every group on the left from tenants’ groups upwards, would have led to major changes in the way the state […]

GArrick part one trial

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[…] dubious at the time. The staff of the Myrotvorets website evidently share a dark sense of humour, because the administrators use online noms-de-plume such as ‘Nato’, ‘ MI5’, and ‘NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA […]

John Stonehouse book reviews

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: . . . and then two come along JOHN STONEHOUSE, MY FATHER The True Story of the Runaway MP Julia Stonehouse London: Icon, 2021, £16.99, h/b Stonehouse Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy Julian Hayes London: Robinson, 2021, £16.99, h/b Robin Ramsay Well here’s a thing: two books, using much of the same material – centrally a […]

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[…] dubious at the time. The staff of the Myrotvorets website evidently share a dark sense of humour, because the administrators use online noms-de-plume such as ‘Nato’, ‘ MI5’, and ‘NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] project. They too had their problems. A freelance producer cracked under political pressure and had to be replaced by the Official Historian of the Security Service ( MI5). 5 Dr Matthias Uhl of the Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau unveiled in 20116 a chilling document found in the State Archive of the Russian Federation. For […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is Lauria’s second omission. Ukraine Reading Craig Murray’s blog post ‘Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity’,34 I noticed this: 29 30 And this included MI5 who had 100% penetration of the Party. See ‘The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed’ at or . 31 It had been leaked in […]

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