Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] been better illustrated than by this country’s foreign policy towards Libya in the past 20 years or so. Former MI5 officer David Shayler reported that in 1996 MI6 had paid £100,000 to a Libyan Islamist group for the assassination of Colonel Gadaffi; and, although denied by the British formal foreign policy apparatus, a great […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
[PDF file]: […] there was ‘an “open door” policy for jihadis’. Coles states that Ramadan Abedi – the father of Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi – was ‘a paid MI6 operative’ (p. 62) but offers no citation for the claim. Mark Curtis, working the same material, writes: ‘Ramadan Abedi is believed to have been a prominent […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] the unwitting target of a gay pick-up. Then came the claim that at the time of the encounter, young master Cameron was suspected of being a trainee MI6 officer.4 6 Given Russia’s current stance on homosexuality, the insinuation that young Dave was being eyed up by a pair of men looks like something meant […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
[PDF file]: […] events, it describes four assassinations – Bull, journalist Jonathan Moyle, Belgian politician André Cools, and one Lionel Jones2 – commissioned by the late Stephan Kock, allegedly of MI6, and carried out by British (SAS) personnel.3 This was followed by a vast judicial-state conspiracy to cover it up. But is the document genuine? We will […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] frequently accused the Foreign Office minister Lynda Chalker of obsessive secrecy in closing the archives. Between 1973 and 1978 the head of the British Secret Intelligence Service MI6, a man then known usually as ‘C’, was himself a real historian. Maurice Oldfield had studied history under A. J. P. Taylor at Manchester, earned his […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] Website of John Young, who has been publishing information about states and especially their intelligence services for about 15 years.14 He recently published a list of putative MI6 officers15 and I was struck by how little it interested me. In 1989 I published A Who’s Who of the British Secret State, over a thousand […]