Notes From the Underground: British Fascism 1974-92

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] been trying to purchase mailing lists of Tory activists. The NF Constitutional Movement were well represented at such gatherings, and George Kennedy Young (former deputy head of MI6), who had almost succeeded in taking over the Monday Club a decade earlier, was heavily involved in Tory Action. The most damning piece of evidence of […]

Re:

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] between the US and Britain was due in part to misunderstandings about covert action. The US favoured ‘ Nasser…. gradually with the help of the CIA and MI6, while Eden, Lloyd, and Macmillan preferred to proceed more swiftly with the help of the Israeli army and the Royal Navy.’ Douglas Little, ‘Mission impossible: the […]

Miscellaneous: With Friends like these

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] British state. ‘The instigators of the attack were not Private Eye satirists but professional rivals…..experts from the Sovietology world, Kremlinologists on the fringes of the CIA or MI6, other writers and journalists who specialized in Soviet issues, academics like Leonard Shapiro, rival translators like Max Haward……. were gripped by the paranoia of those days, […]

Curried Knight: Maxwell Knight and the MI5 in-house history

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] matters inside this country came under the control of the Security Service, where it was later known as the M Section .’ So he was working for MI6 from 1924/5 to 1931. MI5’s Fishy Official Curry (as I like to call it) was originally intended to be a survey of MI5’s wartime work, but […]

Heritage of Stone; JFK and JFK

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] against the Right, and is also part of that movement. These pivotal events also flush out the right-wing media.(3) Here the Sunday Telegraph — allegiance basically with MI6 — ran a leader on JFK on February 2, titled ‘Reshooting Kennedy’. This rehashed not only the central theme of the 1967 CIA memo on the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] are therefore inaccessible. (5) Who dares to say that our civil servants are lacking in initiative? Same old Con Undeterred by the disinformation given to him by MI6 about Gadaffi’s son which led to a successful libel action against The Sunday Telegraph,(6)and undeterred by all the nonsense he ran in the run-up the attack […]

The British Right

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] right’ Young Tory, Hoiles made a highly publicised visit to Central America in 1985 where he went ‘on patrol’ with the ‘freedom fighters’, was photographed holding an MI6 rifle and so forth. Hoiles is fronting the UK end of an American operation. The original idea of CFN came from one Charles Moser of the […]

Notes from the Borderland, no. 4

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] the Telegraphs – it is reasonable to assume that there is a decent chance the material is coming from the Foreign Office or the psy-ops people at MI6. Beyond that little is certain. I do not see what is accomplished by suggesting, as he does here, that Martin Bright of The Observer might (or […]

Puppet Masters: the political use of terrorism in Italy

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] journalist in Italy and came across what appeared to be evidence in 1972 that Roberto Calvi and the assistant British Military Attache in Rome — presumably an MI6 officer under cover — were funnelling money to the Italian far right. No, Peace for the Wicked is £4.50 from Hale at 31 Ada Road, Canterbury, […]

The Angolan hostages episode, and more …

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] some British hostages. In some reports, in Private Eye in particular, it has been claimed that the whole affair was orchestrated by an alliance of right-wingers in MI6, the Foreign Office, Unita, and Lonrho. There is no direct evidence of this but it is clear that some people are highly embarrassed by Britain’s support […]

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