The Atlantic Semantic

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] Archer’s by-election win, left the job undone, so we tried again, many years later; and this further chance was lost.’ 2 (emphasis added) Cavendish had been an MI6 officer. He worked with George K. Young in the UNISON Committee for Action, a militia formed as one of the ‘private armies’ of the mid-1970s. These […]

Using the UK FOIA

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] or relating to, bodies dealing with security matters’) but, instead, Provision 27 (which covers ‘International Relations’). The argument from the FCO – and, by direct association, from MI6 – is that the release of the additional names would harm current or future relations with other nations and that: ‘The FCO has argued that the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] attesting to the presence of the foreign bodies.39 After Perrin, have a look at Katherine Horton PhD, another apparent TI, who actually got a legal case against MI6, GCHQ et al, to court. She didn’t win but the transcripts of the proceedings are on-line and illustrate the difficulties such cases present, even with what […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] Diplomat’. Thus the headline in a piece by Covert Action’s editor, Jeremy Kuzmarov, on 4 August 2023.72 The article’s subheading piles it on: ‘Secret Meeting with British MI6 Head Richard Moore Points to the Likelihood That Zelensky Is a British Intelligence Agent’. This was the first paragraph: In October 2020, on a visit to […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] TrumpRussia Dossier’, New York Times, 11 January 2017. No evidence has surfaced to corroborate these widely reported allegations, which appeared in an opposition research memos by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele. It remains to be seen whether Trump’s electoral success reflects a sea change in public attitudes or simply his unique ability to flout […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] 52 I discussed it at . 53 See, for example, . 19 Kuzmarov, on 4 August 2023.54 The article’s subheading piles it on: ‘Secret Meeting with British MI6 Head Richard Moore Points to the Likelihood That Zelensky Is a British Intelligence Agent’. This was the first paragraph: In October 2020, on a visit to […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must *new* From the dim and distant past Reading British spy Greville Wynne’s The Man From Moscow,1 I noticed that MI6 had set him up as a potential traitor. This was presumably done to ensure there was a fall-back position if it were deemed necessary that he […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] 52 I discussed it at . 53 See, for example, . 19 Kuzmarov, on 4 August 2023.54 The article’s subheading piles it on: ‘Secret Meeting with British MI6 Head Richard Moore Points to the Likelihood That Zelensky Is a British Intelligence Agent’. This was the first paragraph: In October 2020, on a visit to […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] Diplomat’. Thus the headline in a piece by Covert Action’s editor, Jeremy Kuzmarov, on 4 August 2023.28 The article’s subheading piles it on: ‘Secret Meeting with British MI6 Head Richard Moore Points to the Likelihood That Zelensky Is a British Intelligence Agent’. This was the first paragraph: In October 2020, on a visit to […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 1 – the early years

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] field were involved in operations in the Yemen that were, at the very least, covertly approved by the government of the United Kingdom. Stephen Dorril’s book on MI6 has a chapter that details how both SIS and GCHQ provided what was, at times, significantly more than discrete assistance.3 The entire cadre of Stirling’s assistant […]

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