GArrick part one best copy

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] is Sillars’ suspicion that when he formed the SLP in 1976 ‘members of groups like the IMG , while genuine in their views, were useful idiots for MI5 and Special Branch. Numerous such groups have demonstrated time and again that they will ultimately damage or destroy any organisation to which they attach themselves. After […]

Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files by Kate Wilson

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[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? […]

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

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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)

[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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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