[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] ‘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 […]
A review of Lobster in Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000
[PDF file]: Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000 Lobster #39 Summer 2000 214 Westbourne Avenue, Hull HU5 3JB Lobster is the near legendary brainchild of Robin Ramsey, which deals with cover-ups and conspiracy theories within the corridors ofpower. Previous editions have dealt with such issues as American and Tory intervention in British unions, New Labour and the […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] the embassy in 1968 the Russians had side-stepped it by filling the Soviet Trade Delegation with intelligence officers and by making use of “working wives”.’ By 1971, MI5 estimated that of the near-1,000 Soviet officials (and wives) in the UK, a quarter were involved in ‘undiplomatic activities’. How had this been allowed to happen? […]
A review of Lobster in Alternative literature: a practical guide for librarians (1996)
[PDF file]: […] of the split is twice as much research into a field that is mostly ignored by the mainstream press. Both are worth investigating for their research on MI5, MI6 and other covert state activities, research that is largely unavailable elsewhere. While Steve Dorril’s Lobster concentrates on the activities of the British and US security […]
[PDF file]: […] to fourteen specified intelligence, security and national policing bodies5 – only five of which were in existence at the time of Hilda Murrell’s murder: those five being MI5, MI6, GCHQ, the special forces and the Security Commission. Considering that ‘As the exemption under section 23(5) is absolute; it is not necessary to consider the […]
