Deep Black: the secrets of space espionage (Book Review) & Journals

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] Meyer Lansky in Bermuda. Parker paints a picture of the British royal family tinged with homosexuality, drug addiction and general decadence, and attributes to a hitherto secret MI6 report, allegations that the Duchess had been an enthusiastic participant in threesomes in some high class brothels in China. Another version of this territory is said […]

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Rebranding SIS

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] as internally. For this reason, the public is told: ‘…..fraud investigators from the Benefit Agency are being taught how to use surveillance techniques by former SAS and MI6 officers. The company, AMA Associates, a security agency, has coached nearly 1000 government fraud officers on a Professionalism in Security (PINS) course accredited by Portsmouth university…….’ […]

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Out of the blue and into the black

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] attacks. 11 Peter Taylor, ‘States of Terror’, BBC, 1990. According to one rumour presently circulating in Belfast, the Security Services themselves were deeply divided over tactics once MI6 started talking to the IRA from 1989. 12 According to a former Special Branch officer I have spoken to. 13 Cusack and McDonald, see note 6. […]

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The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] example, to show their methods – the deaths of the British journalist Jonathan Moyle in Chile, Ian Spiro, said to be working either for the CIA or MI6 – or both – and Abbie Hoffman. Moyle’s in there because he was interested, apparently, in some of the same people as Casolaro; and Spiro’s in […]

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Ken Livingstone’s questions

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] in the Information Research Department in each year since 1971.”And got an answer. IRD is the one bit of the secret state, not officially a part of MI6, which the state can’t refuse to answer questions on. The figures are: 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 117 99 91 91 88 85 85 […]

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The once and future king?

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] over a long period of time. The Conservative candidate against him in the February 1974 general election had been George Kennedy Young, the former Deputy Director of MI6. For Young on Young see his ‘The final testimony of George Kennedy Young’ in Lobster 19. A more plausible explanation, given what we now know, would […]

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Shorts

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] should be said that IFF Director, Marc Gordon, denies this. David Owen’s memoir, Time To Declare (Michael Joseph, London, 1991) will be remembered for chapter 15, ‘ MI6, GCHQ and the Falklands’. For the first time a senior British politician acknowledges the existence of these agencies and talks (a little) about their work. Owen’s […]

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Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] anxious to prevent Soviet domination of Europe, Fuller began to interest himself in the techniques of psychological and guerrilla warfare which led him into the arms of MI6 and the Anti Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) in their covert war against the USSR during the 1950s. As Coogan notes, the methods and alliances used […]

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Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] editor of The Spectator. His wife is Sarah Schaefer, a big wheel at the Foreign Policy Centre alongside Stephen Twigg (see Lobster 50), Baroness Ramsay, formerly of MI6, and Blair fundraiser and Middle East envoy Lord Levy. Schaefer previously worked for the pro-Euro campaign, the Social Market Foundation and as adviser to Denis MacShane. […]

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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 […]

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