Six Moments of Crisis: inside British foreign policy by Gill Bennett

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[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? […]

Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the racism of empire’ from an early age. The report Morton produced was kept a close secret and forty years later, when Miller requested a copy from MI5, his request was acknowledged and then ignored. Miller goes on: ‘The Foreign Office had a file called “Sri Lanka Security: Assessment 1978”. That file was destroyed […]

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